1. Protection & Control
Electric Utility Substation & Relay Technology, Richmond Community College, Rockingham, NC, March 2017

2. The Team Ian Clark (C) Alan Henderson Alyssa Norris Carlos Sedano
Jeffrey Wimmer MS/MBA
TEAM PHOTO
Special thanks to:
Steve Lampley
Brian Terry

3. OBJECTIVE: Improving student performance through engagement
Reducing the use of traditional texts by integrating Fluke DMM and the Fluke Connect app into our first year classrooms.
Eliminate multiple texts, and equip each student with
Digital Multimeter Principles 4E
Fluke Connect DMM (True RMS).
Improve work results
Immediate engagement
Facilitate operation and communication via digital medium
Preparing them for a tough high speed work environment.
steps and measurements your team would take. How will you document what you do?

4. HYPOTHESIS Halve the training time of Relay calibration.
Halve the performance time of Equipment operation.
Furthermore: we will also be investigating
Automate reporting process & speed data collection,
Improve actual performance IE Calibration,
Improve data accuracy,
Improve data integrity.
steps and measurements your team would take. How will you document what you do?

5. PVD Bus Differential Protection Relays
Following a safety brief…
Technician must inject voltage and amperage, measure outputs, and make mechanical adjustments:
1587 insulation tester as a preamble and augmentation during mechanical inspections
376 clamp meter to audit injection outputs
TiS75 Infrared Camera to image conductors and differentiate phases under test
279 Thermal Multimeter to image conductors and differentiate phases under test
DMM in series with current, or clamp
DMM in parallel with voltages
Stimulation and evaluation of a legacy thyrite device – Use manufacturer’s procedure, but augment with a Fluke DMM in series & the Fluke Connect app to provide real time display of what is actually happening!!!

6. PVD Bus Differential Protection Relays

7. BDD Transformer Differential Relay with Percentage and Harmonic Restraint
Following a safety brief…
Technician must inject voltage and amperage, measure outputs, and make mechanical adjustments.
1587 insulation tester as a preamble and augmentation during mechanical inspections
376 clamp meter to audit injection outputs
TiS75 Infrared Camera to image conductors and differentiate phases under test
279 Thermal Multimeter to image conductors and differentiate phases under test
DMM in series with current, or clamp
DMM in parallel with voltages
Stimulation and evaluation of a multiple matched coils within the device. Use the manufacturers test procedure, but augment with a Fluke DMM in parallel & the Fluke Connect app to provide real time display of what is actually happening!!!

8. BDD Transformer Differential Relay with Percentage and Harmonic Restraint

9. BDD Transformer Differential Relay with Percentage and Harmonic Restraint

10. Results: Calibrate Relay - Not so much…
BDD & PDD Task training time nor subsequent performance
WHY: Task did not change substantively
Screenshots/measurement data
Before/after workflow (steps to complete a process)
Links to video
Task quality was unaltered.
Metric
Goal
Before
After
Total change
Training
8 manhours
-30%
10 hr
9.5 hr 5%
Performance
4 manhours
4 hr
3hr
25%
How do you anticipate that using the Fluke Connect app and tools will impact business? For example, what is the change before/after using Fluke Connect as demonstrated by what kind of Metric? Sample metrics include hours to complete job, cost of parts, estimated years life extension of equipment, reduction in load draw extrapolated into energy use reduction. You can reference work orders, energy usage reports and other collateral that showcase time or costs savings.

11. Results: Operation of equipment – BAM.
Operation of injection test set training time was significantly reduced.
Why: Learning task change substantially, integrate FLUKE Connect.
Screenshots/measurement data
Before/after workflow (steps to complete a process)
Links to video
Metric
Goal
Before
After
Total change
Training
8 manhours
-30%
10 hr
1 hr
90%
Performance
4 manhours
4 hr
75%
How do you anticipate that using the Fluke Connect app and tools will impact business? For example, what is the change before/after using Fluke Connect as demonstrated by what kind of Metric? Sample metrics include hours to complete job, cost of parts, estimated years life extension of equipment, reduction in load draw extrapolated into energy use reduction. You can reference work orders, energy usage reports and other collateral that showcase time or costs savings.

12. Impact & Recommendations
The students QUICKLY gained proper techniques and confidence with FLUKE tools.
Excellent Manuals
Superior Safety
Lend themselves to easy tasks and simple trouble shooting
That confidence significantly shortened learning curves on unfamiliar tools when we could integrate FLUKE Connect.
Recommend training programs begin with DMM in teaching principles and continue with the DMM in hand as a “Go-To” tool while learning advanced tasks and trouble shooting.
Instill the principle – “We do not know until it has been measured.”
Why do you think the wireless Fluke Connect tools and smart phone app will make a difference, compared to existing technology / methodology? AKA, why can’t your project/improvement be accomplished without Fluke Connect? Why should it be used by technicians in plant, industrial, and commercial settings.

13. Lessons learned
Placing the FLUKE Connect tools in the hands of the students met most of our learning objectives. Once enable, they raced past our expectations.
Data collection and reporting happened real time – not one week later.
TPAK is effectively a requirement.
You need to read the manual… (sighs)
This was fun and exciting 