EPlan hosts medium voltage industry seminar

A one-day industry seminar dedicated to medium voltage (MV) industry practitioners and held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on July 30, attracted more than 150 participants from various backgrounds, including electrical consultants, engineers, and project directors from power generation & transmission companies.

The event was organized by EPlan Competence Centre South East Asia (ECCSEA) in collaboration with The Institution of Engineers Malaysia (IEM), The Electrical and Electronics Association of Malaysia (TEEAM), and ABB Malaysia.

Speakers included Mohd Fuad from Tenaga Nasional who shared his knowledge on power quality mitigation. In his presentation, he stressed the importance of standards and the cost impact of poor power quality. “All equipment must have MS IEC minimum compatibility requirement, or exceed it” he advised.

In “Global Design Standard in the MV Industry”, Anders Karlsson, professional technical consultant, EPlan Software & Service, talked about current global engineering challenges such as standardization in the engineering environment, time-to-market, error elimination, and documentation quality. “With all these, optimization and integration of the right design standard for a complete workflows in an organization has become a vital issue,” said Karlsson.

Meanwhile, Ten Sing Chyuan from ABB Malaysia focused on safety and protection issues of MV switchgears, including the new aspects of switchgears designs introduced in IEC 62271-200 standard and the complete revision of design rules concerning internal arc flash.

Apart from industry updates, the day was filled with live product demonstrations, with institutions, associations and switchgear manufacturers taking the opportunity to provide insights into their technologies and development of the latest solutions.