Closing gaps?

Closing gaps?Challenges & Opportunities

some personal observations!

SABS Electro-Technical Sector Stakeholder Workshop

30 August 2018

Andrew Eriksson August 2018

“There can be no improvements

where there are no standards.”

Masaaki Imai

Kaizen

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Electro-Technical Sector Stakeholder Workshop

Progress is only a word …….

• How did things work back then?

• What is the broad picture now?

• Important and new opportunities out there

• Change management is challenging

• Collaboration potentially very productive

… until we make it happen

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Roadmapand

“Checklist”


How did things work out then?- a very different technical environment: (1970’s thro mid 80’s)

HVCC = multiparty platform✓ Research, universities, testing and industry involved

Halcyon days for HV and UHV developments & testing✓ Growth in economy and electricity demand

✓Relevance and learning – for all

✓National and international engagement

➢ HV Lab. for NEERI (CSIR) in 1982

➢ NETFA (SABS / ESKOM) ± 4 years later



What is the broad picture now?

Electro-technical sector; 40 – 60 BUSD local value

and

• Economic environment?• Industry perceptions?• HV / UHV still relevant? (International scene)• Market environment?• Forward directions?

SA Technical Readiness Ranking

2013/2017 2018/2022

38 42

Economist Intelligence Unit (/81)

WEF Global Competitiveness Ranking 2017/18: SA 61 (137)



Background information

Strong need for industrial and economic growth

→ Must drive for change



→ SWOT analysis / implications

• Challenging business environment

• Complex competitive environment

• Redefined mandate = consequences

• Customer expectations unchanged!

➢ Testing infrastructure critical for industrial aspirations➢ Tipping point for renewal➢ SABS testing has to navigate altered landscape

and

Internal rate-of-change must be > external



Relevant? Internationally, more work to do

The inevitable conclusion is that these methods have to be re-examined and coordinated to

provide reliable and compatible results



CIGRE actively focusing

Schedule 2017 - 2020



Lab competition alive and wellHigh voltage / High power http://www.inmrlaboratoryguide.com/

What can we learn from them?


http://www.inmrlaboratoryguide.com/


Positive background → WS context

• Serious economic, policy and situational analyses

• Strong drive for industrial growth

• Plenty of scope for improvement (training)

• Specialised testing / standards highly relevant

• There is a lively market out there

➢ Future directions = opportunities?



In the good old days of electricity utilities

TSO

DSO I

H

C

x

x

x

x

Energy Flow one-way

Optimization (& Trading)

Asset Heavy

We were good at what we did. Very good: >> GWh → $$$$

And we were well organised to work like this. Engineering was strong

While our market(s) still functioned normally (Tariffs > cost plus; and inflation linked)



An enduser “new-new” world is evolving

Optimization, Balancing & Trading

TSO

R RR

R

R RBidirectional

DSO

Asset Optimization

Micro grid

VPP

Energy Management (DER)

Energy Services Efficiency

R

R

DSP

R

R

IPP

Platform Service Providers

EV

S



Priority focus / “turn-around” strategy

• Upgrade aging infrastructure (HV switchgear)

• Digitalisation “Smart” Energy

Industry 4 / LVDC / SME?



IoT / AI → the future

October 2015


The importance of standards in smart manufacturingJune 20th, 2018, Published in Articles: EngineerIT, Featured: EngineerIT

by Mike Hannah, Rockwell Automation; Conrad Leiva, MESA International/iBASEt; and Dave Noller, IBM

A sampling of integration

standards for smart

manufacturing

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http://www.ee.co.za/section/articles-engineerit

http://www.ee.co.za/section/engineerit-featured

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SME Business“SA ‘completely out of step’ with global SME growth trends” (SBI Study – Business Day; 25 July 2018)

South Africa (250’000?) SMEs OECD≈ 95% of businesses ± 90% of businesses

→ 28% of jobs 60 – 70% of jobs± 34% of GDP ± 60% of GDP



Priority focus / “turn-around” strategy

• Upgrade aging infrastructure (HV switchgear)

• Digitalisation

• Customer centricity?

Industry 4.0“Smart” Energy

LVDC

SME



“Customer centricity”: It’s easy to say!

• Who are my customers?

• Why?

• Who are my customer’s customers?

• What do they value? Why?

➢ A big and very demanding change in culture!

“Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it.” Peter Drucker



…..and “change” is a challenging process



→ Systematic, structured approach works



https://hbr.org/2017/05/assessment-do-you-know-how-bureaucratic-your-organization-is

Caution!


https://hbr.org/2017/05/assessment-do-you-know-how-bureaucratic-your-organization-is

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiVjcKSpJzcAhXL_aQKHWYLDKQQjRx6BAgBEAU&url=https://www.shutterstock.com/search/u%2Bturn%2Bsign&psig=AOvVaw2JnkOi_SVrGuvRazYaG-1m&ust=1531578276389379


Key lessons → not top-down!

• Involvement• Understand “why” and “where”

• Participate in “how”

• Follow through / measure

• Innovate at process level / leverage technology

“Technology is changing how business is done. But using that technology effectively requires human ingenuity and business-savvy talent”.

Kabelo Makwane, Accenture – June 2018



Positive collaboration can work - effectively

Development phase standardisationSpeeding up processes and time to market



Some building blocks toward collaboration?

Where’s the SABS?What about new models?

“Smart” partnerships?

“Standards are an integral component

of international trade and are a critical

component in achieving economic

growth”.


AfCFTAPIDA (AU)

ARSOSADCSTAN

June 2018

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Positive framework Collaboration (Multiparty!)

Strong drive for needed industrial growth• Serious economic, policy and situational analyses

• Specialised testing / standards still highly relevant

• There is a lively market out there

• SABS navigating challenging environment

• Customer centric – and change management?

➢ Future directions >> opportunities are there!

➢Workshop = stakeholder dialogue (expectations!)



Balancing expectations with commitments

How to?

Who should?

- do (much) better?

- What / Why?

- with whom?



A global perspective

The global economy has raised the stakes in standards development.

Competition for the advantages that accompany a widespread adoption of technology is increasingly intense

worldwide.

The impetus to develop globally accepted standards is greater now than ever before

ANSI 2015 United States Standards Strategy



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