HERNIS – a thriving business with thriving co-workers HERNIS NEWS No. 1/08 HERNIS is experiencing international success and the work force is growing steadily in our offices in Arendal, Singapore and Houston.We are proud of the level of competence and enthusiasm that has made HERNIS the world leader within our niche - state-of-the-art television surveillance systems for extreme environments off- and onshore. Our systems provide security & safety for people and equipment. Ann-Kari Heier HR Manager at HERNIS
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HERNIS – a thriving businesswith thriving co-workers
H E R N I S N E W S No. 1/08
HERNIS is experiencing internationalsuccess and the work force isgrowing steadily in our offices inArendal, Singapore and Houston.Weare proud of the level of competenceand enthusiasm that has madeHERNIS the world leader within ourniche - state-of-the-art televisionsurveillance systems for extremeenvironments off- and onshore. Oursystems provide security & safety forpeople and equipment.
Ann-Kari Heier HRManager at HERNIS
Contents Page
HERNIS –
a thriving business 2
New HR Manger
at HERNIS 3
HERNIS takes
environmental
responsibility 3
New Sales &
Service assistants 4
Kormarine –
a natural arena
for HERNIS 6
60 dined with
HERNIS in
Singapore 6
Hernis CCTV in
offshore Angola 7
HERNIS gains
foothold in China 8
HERNIS software
integrated in
NOV drilling
control systems 9
New Contracts 10
HERNIS activity
plan 2008 11
Marintec China-
the gateway to an
excelling maritime
industry 12
HERNIS – a thriving business with thriving co-workers
HERNIS is experiencing international success and
the work force is growing steadily in our offices in
Arendal, Singapore and Houston. We are proud of
the level of competence and enthusiasm that has
made HERNIS the world leader within our niche -
state-of-the-art television surveillance systems for
extreme environments off- and onshore. Our
systems provide security & safety for people and
equipment.
During this past year we have increased our
organisation by 14 people, some of whom you can
meet in this newsletter. For the head office in
Arendal we are currently looking for even more co-
workers both within R&D, Engineering, Service
and Administration.
On January 24th HERNIS looks forward to
meeting students at a local Career Planning Event,
to arouse interest for our unique products and to
promote our good work environment. Our new HR
Manager Ann-Kari Heier urges Engineer graduates
from the local university to apply for work at
HERNIS. “We look forward to interesting
challenges ahead and welcome both recent graduates
and experienced people to apply for work at
HERNIS to contribute to our continued success”.
Software Engineer Carl Are Dreier Hopen
(portrayed on the cover), has worked for HERNIS
for nearly 8 years, ever since he graduated from the
college of higher education in Grimstad. “To deliver
the best products in the market we need to keep a
high technical level and high pace. The pride of
developing HERNIS’ state-of-the-art quality
products and career opportunities internally and
internationally is what’s keeping me here. Another
customers, as well as urge environmental awareness
amongst our staff throughout the HERNIS
organisation. To fulfil our environmental
responsibility useful environmental measures are
integrated in the day-to-day operation. HERNIS is
proud to be an active contributor to the protection
of the environment.
It is with great pleasure HERNISwelcomes Mrs. Ann Kari Heier totake on the newly establishedposition as Human ResourcesManager at HERNIS.
Ann-Kari joined HERNIS in the beginning of
November 2007 leaving her position of 1 year as
Technical Manager at QVision AS in Oslo. Prior to
this Ann Kari filled the position as Department
Manager for 11 years at Data Respons in
Kongsberg.
Ann-Kari adds expertise to HERNIS as the
company looks forward to dealing with challenges
and exploiting possibilities ahead. She holds a
Master of Science degree within control
engineering, and has 15 years of experience within
software development for embedded systems.
HERNIS takes environmentalresponsibility
Odd-Keilon Osmundsen nowleaves the Human Resourcestasks to Ann-Kari Heier, newHR Manager at HERNIS.
“Human Resources at HERNIS will clearly profit
from Ann-Kari’s technical background and
management experience as well as her special
interest within Human Resources”, says Odd Keilon
Osmundsen, Financial Director and former HR
responsible. “As the company has experienced rapid
growth the HR tasks now require a full position,
and we were lucky to get Ann-Kari to join us as she
was heading back to her roots in Arendal”.
Ann-Kari lives in Sandvigen at Hisøy with her
husband and son. Besides working, she enjoys
sporting activities and music together with her
family and friends.
New sales assistant at HERNIS – NorwayAs of September 2007 the HERNIS head office in
Arendal, Norway has had the pleasure of employing
Mrs. Linda Gryting as new Sales Assistant. Linda
was for the last 14 years employed in sales and
marketing at Tellefsdal AS, a company specialising
in producing snow chains and road maintenance
equipment.
Linda has a business education degree, and has also
studied some engineering subjects at the local
University of Agder. She has lived a short time in
Connecticut USA, and also in Kiel, Germany.
After becoming the proud mom of little Kristoffer
one year ago, Linda started working 60% this fall,
but from January 1st 2008 she is working full time.
This new job also allows her to be working closer to
the family’s home just outside Arendal.
She and her husband has for several years been
interested in driving motorcycles, but the last year
Kristoffer has taken all their spare time. They have a
summer house by the sea at Lyngør, and spend a lot
of time there. Linda also likes to travel abroad and
every year they travel to warm and sunny
destinations.
New sales assistant at HERNIS – SingaporeSince December 1st. 2007 HERNIS Scan Systems –
Asia Pte Ltd. in Singapore is proud to employ Ms.
Carmencita Reyes Francia as new Sales Assistant.
Meet HERNIS’ new Sales & Service Assistants
Carmencita is 28 years of age. In 2000 she earned a
degree in Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.
Despite her young age she also has 10 years of
professional experience in Customer Service, Sales
Administration, Sales and Marketing, and Business
Development. Her company for the past 7 years in
the Philippines was engaged in Access Control and
Security Systems catering to small, medium, and
large offices/enterprises. With this experience
Carmencita is well suited to meet the challenges
ahead at HERNIS.
Carmencita, or “Menchie” as her friends call her,
was born and grew up in the Philippines as the
eldest of three siblings. Whereas her mom and
brother are still staying in the Phillipines.
Carmencita and her younger sister now live together
in Singapore where her sister works in a logistics
firm. Carmencita takes special interests in music,
travel and shopping.
“I started with Hernis Singapore last December 1,
2007 and it has been a great pleasure to join this
team!” says the new Sales Assistant.
Mrs. Linda Gryting and Ms. Carmencita Francia are
these days receiving in-house training from our
experienced Sales Assistant for six years, Ms Lillian
Thaule.
New Service Assistant at HERNIS – Singapore HERNIS is proud to have Ms. Kathleen Fernando
on our team as new Service Assistant in our
HERNIS is pleased to welcome no less than two new sales assistants andone new service assistant to our organisation these days.
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tasks, thus expanding capacity. “Joining Hernis has
been such an exciting experience and I really
appreciate the opportunity!” Kathleen says
enthusiastically.
In her spare time Kathleen reads a lot and she is also
very interested in ballroom/Latin dancing, although
with the university studies taking up so much of her
time over the last few years she has not been able to
engage in the dancing as much as she would have
liked.
Kathleen is these days receiving in-house training
from Lill-Tove Jentoft at the head office in Norway.
Singapore office. Kathleen is 22 years old and just
graduated from the National University of
Singapore with a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical
Science. HERNIS is Kathleen’s first employment.
Kathleen is originally form Sri Lanka, but has lived
in Singapore for 3 years now. Her mom still resides
in Sri Lanka and in her vacations Kathleen likes to
go back home to visit her family. Kathleen is
planning to tour Europe some time in the future
however!
The Service Assistant position is new, and Kathleen
is expected to relieve the Service Engineers of
paperwork and help with the coordination of service
From the left: Carmencita Reyes Francia, Lill-Tove Jentoft, Kathleen Fernando, Linda Gryting and Lillian Thaule.
In October HERNIS once againpresented our state-of-the-artCCTV equipment at Kormarine inPusan, Korea.The exhibition takesplace every second year and forHERNIS this is a natural arena toattend. Both HERNIS representativesand the Korean sales agent PrimeTechnology were pleased with theshow, which is one of the mostimportant shipping exhibitions ofthe Asia Pacific region.
“Korea is a world power shipbuilder. Being one of
the leading exhibitions within global maritime
shipbuilding/ship yards Kormarine is a natural
business arena for our company” says HERNIS
Sales Manager for Korea, Mr. Arvid Enggrav.
“HERNIS is the world leading company in our
niche and therefore our presence is important. Both
existing and potentially new customers seek us out
to experience our equipment first hand” Arvid
continues. 800 companies from 35 countries
participate and over 40 000 people visit the
exhibition each year.
This year HERNIS was located on the Norwegian
Pavilion, together with other Norwegian companies
operating in the international shipping industry.
The pavilion was managed by the Norwegian
Maritime Exporters association, where HERNIS has
been a member since 1995.
Both existing customers and potentially new
associates took the opportunity to visit our stand for
first hand experience with our advanced camera
stations and to get an introduction to the user
friendly operation of HERNIS CCTV systems.
Kormarine – a natural arena for HERNIS
Mr. N.U Baek HERNIS’Service agent in Korea givesrepresentatives of DSME an
introduction to HERNIS CCTVsystems. Behind in black suit;
Mr. Arvid Engrav.
The Annual Singapore Appreciation Dinner was the
3rd in a row, and was held at the Singapore
Recreation Club (established in 1883). The club is
located in the city centre at the famous Padang area
The annual Appreciation Trophythis year went to Jurong
Shipyard Pte Ltd (JSPL), ourbiggest customer in Singapore
in 2007. The nice crystal awardwas handed over to
Mr. Philip C. L. Chan byMarketing Director Mr. Bjorn
Fossestøl who had come fromHERNIS’ head office in Norway
to take part at the Dinner
overlooking a beautiful city skyline. About 60
special invited guests were present and under an
open sky had a great time together. It was a cross-
company event that gave employees in many various
companies a chance to interact with partners and
competitors alike.
“Within this “small” but important area of the
world this was a perfect way to meet up, and for us
to give something back to our valued partners. We
are looking forward to continuing this annual event
in the years to come” Managing Director of
HERNIS Scan Systems Asia Pte Ltd, Mr. Svein
Gundersen.
60 dined with HERNIS under the Singapore skyline
HERNIS is proud to be the selectedsupplier of CCTV equipment to theFPSO Gimboa (Floating ProductionStorage and Offloading vessel) thatwill be used for the development ofthe Gimboa field, located about 85kilometres off the coast of Angola.The contract was awarded HERNISby Elsag Datamat, the integrator ofthe total telecommunication packagefor the project.
The HERNIS solution was chosen for the high
quality required for the explosion proof Pan & Tilt
camera stations for security and process control, and
for the facilities that make the HERNIS 400 CCTV
control system the top of it’s class.
“The collaboration with Elsag Datamat has gone
very smoothly to our mutual satisfaction”, says
HERNIS Project Engineer Ole Morten Solheim.
Mr. Ernesto Melotti, Senior Project Engineer at
Elsag Datamat agrees the project has been a success.
“Let me highlight the professional way in which this
job has been handled. I want to thank all the
HERNIS people who have been involved in this
delivery” a pleased Melotti e-mailed to Mr. Solheim
after the delivery had been made.
Provision and management of the FPSO vessel is
handled by Saipem contracted by the Angolan oil
company Sonangol P&P. The contract has a total
value of approximately USD 570 million, the
duration six years with a five-year extension option
for Sonangol. Saipem is converting an oil tanker
into a FPSO vessel with a storage capacity of
1,800,000 barrels and a production capacity of
60,000 barrels of oil per day. The FPSO Gimboa
will be delivered in early 2008.
The Gimboa FPSO is the second contract that
Saipem has won on a standalone basis in the Leased
FPSO market, following the award of the Cidade de
Vitoria FPSO contract in Brazil. HERNIS Scan
Systems was the selected supplier of CCTV Systems
even for these vessels.
HERNIS CCTV system in offshore Angola
Saipem is converting an oiltanker into a FPSO vesselwith a storage capacity of1,800,000 barrels and aproduction capacity of 60,000barrels of oil per day. TheFPSO Gimboa will bedelivered in early 2008.
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“China will soon be the number one shipbuilding
nation in the world with respect to numbers of
ships and thus represents an enormous potential for
HERNIS. As Chinese yards now enter into
construction of more complex ships of various sizes,
control stations. 2 controllable Ex camera stations
HERNIS gains foothold in an expanding Chinese
shipbuilding market
HERNIS has closed a deal with IM Skaugen ASA for delivery of CCTVsystems for 4 Multigas LNGC vessels, to be constructed at Skaugens newjoint venture Skaugen Wuzhou Shipbuilding yard in Taizhou city, southeast ofShanghai.The contract is considered an important breakthrough for HERNISinto the Chinese shipbuilding industry that is expanding at an enormouspace.
will be employed in hazardous areas, whereas the
remaining 6 camera stations are intended for use in
safe areas. In total 4 camera stations are Pan&Tilt.
The vessels are scheduled for delivery in mid June
2008.
“Applying 25 years of experience with CCTV
systems we are able to deliver quality services to our
customers world wide. We look forward to take up
what we trust will be a warm and long-term
business relationship with Skaugen” Mr. Fossestøl
rounds off.
Explosion Proof Pan & Tilt Camera stations areapproved for use in potentially hazardous atmospheres,Zone 1 and 2, group IIC. The camera stations comein one unit, ready to be mounted on the floor, wall orceiling with a maximum of 4 bolts.
The new Multigas ships will notmuch different in appearance
from the existing LPG/ethylenecarriers sailing in Skaugen’s
Norgas fleet.
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In 2006 HERNIS entered into acooperation with National OilwellVarco (NOV) to integrate HERNISCCTV operation into the NOVstandard Amphion Control TouchPC.The prototype was presented atOTC 07 at the AC-Ideal Demo Rig.Positive results immediately led tomore orders!
Since 2006 HERNIS has been enjoying a mutually
beneficial technological cooperation with National
Oilwell Varco. The initial project was to develop
software to operate the HERNIS 8x8 CCTV system
via NOV’s own Amphion Control Touch PC used
for Drilling Control. Based on successful tests at the
demonstration rig AC-Ideal at OTC in Houston
May 2007, the cooperation was expanded and
another 5-6 systems have now been ordered.
The concept has been expanded to incorporate
larger CCTV systems like HERNIS 500, this
system has been selected for the drilling units
Lonestar, Goldstar, Norbe VI and Delba III, where
the CCTV system is distributed in 4 cabinets
networked by a gigabit Ethernet. This allow for easy
integration of the Amphion Touch PC’s, as well as a
high quality digital recording of all the cameras.
Carl Are Hopen, R&D Software Engineer at
HERNIS and responsible for the software
integration is very pleased with the cooperation and
the resulting product. “The customised operation of
the HERNIS CCTV system via NOV’s own Touch
Screen Drilling Control System is the optimal
solution for the customers in terms of easy
installation and end-user requirements. I was
satisfied to learn that the people who tested the new
Touch Screen operation in fact drew attention to
the user friendly operation. The new interface is
loosely based on Sea Touch and includes features
like Quad control and in-video pan & tilt. During
the process I have gained useful experience with
Windows XP Embedded and exiting ideas for
further product development are being discussed in
the organisation as we speak”.
HERNIS CCTV operation integrated in National
Oilwell Varco’s Drilling Control System
Carl Are Dreier Hopen,R&D Software Engineer
The new interface includesfeatures like Quad controland in-video pan&tilt
participated at Marintec China inShanghai.The exhibition is seen asone of the most importantinternational maritime trade fairs inthe South East Asia region.Considering the rapid developmentin the Chinese maritime industry thefair is an obvious business arena forHERNIS.
Representing HERNIS were Managing Director of
HERNIS Scan Systems Asia Pte Ltd, Mr. Svein
Gundersen and Area Sales Manager Mr. Vincent
Yap as well as our agent in China Dan Marine Far
East Ltd, represented by Mr. Lawrence Wang, Eric
Chao and their good colleagues. In additional Jan
Kristensen, overall Sales Manager was also visiting
the exhibition from Norway to add a complete
international presence to the show.
Mr. Gundersen was satisfied with our own
performance and the overall organization of the
show. “The Marintec China 2007 was an improved
exhibition compared to 2 years ago and many
interesting customers attended during the 4-day
period in November. Despite the modest quantity
of equipment we chose to exhibit interest was great
and clearly underlines the importance of the future
China marked. With many ongoing and upcoming
projects in the region our agent and our Area Sales
Manager were having their hands full highlighting
the advantages of HERNIS CCTV equipment over
the competition” he says.
The Chinese economy is growing rapidly and the
marine transportation volume is increasing with an
enormous speed. China's demand for new shipping
in 2006-2010 is forecast to be 31 million DWT, or
approximately 6.2 million DWT on average per
year. “With world leading CCTV equipment tailor
made for marine environments this obviously is an
important business arena for HERNIS” Mr.
Gundersen sums up.
Over 1,100 exhibiting companies attended
Marintec China this year, with 35,309 visitors being
registered. This was up 17% on the previous event
in 2005.
Marintec China – The gateway to an excelling
maritime industry
“Despite a modest selection ofequipment on display interest
was great”, says Mr. SveinGundersen pleased. To the right,Mr. Jan Kristensen, overall Sales
Manager at HERNIS and Mr.Tim Kutscher of Marine &
Offshore Equipment GmbH –HERNIS’ agent in Germany.