Closing gaps?
Transcript of 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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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”
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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
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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)
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Background information
Strong need for industrial and economic growth
→ Must drive for change
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→ 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
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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
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CIGRE actively focusing
Schedule 2017 - 2020
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Lab competition alive and wellHigh voltage / High power http://www.inmrlaboratoryguide.com/
What can we learn from them?
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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?
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In the good old days of electricity utilities
TSO
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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)
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An enduser “new-new” world is evolving
Optimization, Balancing & Trading
TSO
R RR
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DSO
Asset Optimization
Micro grid
VPP
Energy Management (DER)
Energy Services Efficiency
R
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DSP
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IPP
Platform Service Providers
EV
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Priority focus / “turn-around” strategy
• Upgrade aging infrastructure (HV switchgear)
• Digitalisation “Smart” Energy
Industry 4 / LVDC / SME?
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IoT / AI → the future
October 2015
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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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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
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Priority focus / “turn-around” strategy
• Upgrade aging infrastructure (HV switchgear)
• Digitalisation
• Customer centricity?
Industry 4.0“Smart” Energy
LVDC
SME
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“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
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…..and “change” is a challenging process
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→ Systematic, structured approach works
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https://hbr.org/2017/05/assessment-do-you-know-how-bureaucratic-your-organization-is
Caution!
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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
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Positive collaboration can work - effectively
Development phase standardisationSpeeding up processes and time to market
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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”.
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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!)
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Balancing expectations with commitments
How to?
Who should?
- do (much) better?
- What / Why?
- with whom?
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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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