Company Profile

COMPANY PROFILE
  • Founded in 1990 by 4 individuals performing groundbreaking Partial Discharge Analysis studies in Ontario Hydro's Research Division (currently Ontario Power Generation).
  • Combining leading edge hardware and software technology and some of the best-known minds in the field of rotating machinery, Iris Power provides customers with quality products and services that translate into improved operational reliability of their motors, generators, transformers and switchgear.
  • Our senior staffs are members of key national and international electro-technical organizations such as the IEEE, CIGRE, and IEC, actively working to improve motor and generator test standards.
  • About 15% of Iris Power resources are devoted to R&D, ensuring the creation and continuous improvement of innovative testing and diagnostic tools for motors, generators, transformers and switchgear.
  • As an ISO 9001:2000 registered company, our employees take pride in producing quality products and services for our customers.
  • Purchased in 1998 by Koch Industries, Iris Power continues to be a global leader and innovator in its existing fields of endeavor.
  • In 2007, IRIS Power LP has purchased ADWEL International Ltd. to effectively extend the range of offered product and services.

IRIS Power LP builds and develops intelligent instrumentation that helps plan optimal maintenance required to prevent failures of large electrical equipment. Our instrumentation incorporates data acquisition, signal processing and presentation of information in a meaningful manner for ease of analysis and interpretation.

Our customers include utilities, petro-chemical facilities, pulp and paper manufacturers and other industrial plants with large electrical machines.

Through joint research projects in the industry, we help identify current issues in the reliability of electrical apparatus, and we endeavor to develop new techniques and products for plant personnel to monitor and test their electrical machines. Our development efforts include prototyping, field testing and packaging of portable and continuous monitoring systems.

Our monitoring solutions incorporate interfaces and protocols to seamlessly communicate with your existing plant data acquisition systems. Just over a third of IRIS Power buisness is conducted in North America, hence our Field Service Technicians and Project Managers travel around the globe to train and help our customers implement our solutions.

Numerous success stories and case studies presented by our customers demonstrate that our predictive and periodic maintenance solutions are indeed an important factor in helping companies to keep their operations running smoothly.

      • Determine the true condition of large electrical machines with IRIS Power diagnostic instrumentation and services.
      • Predict and prevent failures in generators, large motors, dry type transformers, and switchgear.

      Years of scientific research and practical field experience have yielded instruments that help professionals like you extend the life of electrical machines at minimum cost. IRIS Power instruments perform equipment monitoring as well as periodic on-line and off-line tests to:

      • Assess insulation ageing and deterioration through Partial Discharge Analysis (on-line)
      • Diagnose rotor shorted turns through magnetic flux analysis (on-line)
      • Detect cracked rotor bars with current signature analysis (on-line)
      • Recognize motor insulation hazards such as voltage surges (on-line)
      • Find problems in stator laminations (off-line)
      • Detect problems in transformer tap changers (off-line)
      • Automatically test Current Transformers (CT's) (off-line)
      • Identify potential problems in HV breakers by measuring contact resistance (off-line)

      INTELLIGENT TOOLS FOR INTELLIGENT MOVES!

    • By avoiding the display of overwhelming test data, Iris instruments allows non-experts to use the technology, revealing

      • What to fix
      • When to fix it!
      • And often - how to fix it!

      WE STRIVE TO SAVE YOUR TIME !


       
       

    • The opportunity to inspect large electrical machinery is less frequent now than in the last century. The time between inspections is continuing to increase, as companies and utilities strive for efficiency. At the same time, large generators and motors are aging. Condition assessment using data acquired while machines are operating can be used to determine the need for and the nature of required maintenance.

      POWER ON WITH IRIS POWER.


       
       

    • IRIS Power founders have been performing groundbreaking PD research in Ontario Hydro since the mid 1970-s. That work resulted in the continuous improvement of PD instruments and software. Our group of world class machine experts, with broad experience in the international arena, is standing by to assist you with your electrical rotating machine issues.

      WE HELP YOU PLAY SMART.


       
       

    • For over 20 years, IRIS Power served as a conduit to analyze and store Partial Discharge data collected by our customers around the world. The ever-expanding database of measurement statistics related to specific machines is yours to access as an IRIS Power customer. The Result?

      REFERENCE POINTS YOU CAN RELY ON.


       
       

    • IRIS Power organizes an annual Rotating Machines Conference and provides extensive educational and training programs to support power industry and heavy industry professionals like you.

      SHARING INFORMATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL.