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The Caribbean’s most important fair took place at the Caribbean Convention & Fair Center in the city of Barranquilla, Colombia. This event included a wide-ranging exhibition of machinery and equipment for processes, raw materials, services, etc. Our presence at the event was led by local distributor Cummins de los Andes, which provided information about the wide range of integral solutions we have to offer, and how they can cover and contribute to the development of industrial projects.
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Yet another edition of our Lunch & Learn seminars took place in the city of Venezuela, carried out by local distributor Dieselval. The seminar was attended by 25 representatives of important companies such as Dina de Occidente, Occidental de Camiones y Servicios, Multiservices LVM, C.A Diario Panorama, RoxarInc, Pirelli, Carbones del Guasare, Carbones de la Guajira, Preston, Grupo Mixto Americano, Iteveca, Agropecuaria el Silencio, Cementos Catatumbo and PDVSA-GASPROM.
The subjects of most interest to the public were Recommendations for Installation of Generators, Criteria for Correct Sizing of Generators, Automatic Transfer Systems and Electric Self-Generation Systems. Cummins Power Generation’s engineers Abel Chacón and Miguel Jiménez took part in the event, explaining cutting-edge technology and systems in global markets.
Cummins Power Generation proposing initiatives of global interest.
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Cummins Japan Limited (CJL) proudly announces a recent partnership with Meidensha Corporation (Meiden) in February 2012.
Arising from an expectant power shortage due to uncertain nuclear power plant operations in Japan, Meiden approached Cummins Power Generation to supply reliable diesel generator engines, where a first order of 3 units of QSK50-G4 was installed as standby power for their customer, Kyushu Electric Power Company.
Cummins’ long-standing reputations for producing G-Drive engines that are easily integrated with existing systems, durable, cost-effective and fuel-efficient, were reasons why the power brand was approached as part of Meiden’s backup plans to customers.
Thanks to the Cummins team’s collective support, the client was able to meet their final budget and planned schedule for this project.
Since founding in 1897, Meiden has been establishing innovations in its products and services, manufacturing and providing power solutions for sectors in infrastructures, business systems, industrial systems, engineering systems and real estate developments. The Tokyo-based corporation has nationwide domestic bases, as well as numerous global offices in US, Europe and Asia.
With Meiden’s extensive customer base and technical know-how, Cummins Japan Limited is now able to expand their market reach to an operation sector that was previously lacking. Currently 10 additional Cummins G-Drive units have already been planned to be delivered and installed over the next few years for various customers.
 3 units of Cummins G-Drive (QSK50-G4) installed by Meiden for Kyushu Power Station in Ohita Prefecture, Japan.
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 Data centres are becoming big business as companies turn to outside specialists to provide managed data storage services. NEXTDC was established in 2010 by Bevan Slattery, one of Australia’s most successful IT and internet entrepreneurs. NEXTDC says its national portfolio of independent data centres will “enable the cloud revolution” by providing the high availability, connectivity and security that organisations need to transition to cloud computing – the term for services delivered via the internet. Indeed, cloud computing is predicted to be one of the biggest growth industries in the history of business.
NEXTDC’s first data centre, in the Brisbane CBD, has been ‘live’ since September 2011 and is a high-quality Tier 3 facility guaranteeing 99.982% availability of data while also offering premium security. Redundancy at the data centre is N+1 meaning all systems have at least one independent back-up so that there is system availability in the event of component failure.
A data centre’s massed racks of servers draw significant power and put out a lot of heat, placing considerable demand on power supply and air conditioning systems. Emergency back-up power generation is thus a critical requirement for a data centre to ensure integrity and functionality of the hosted computer environment.
 The back-up system at NEXTDC includes three Cummins Power Generation C2250 generator sets powered by 60-litre Cummins QSK60 engines, and three Cummins DMC1000 digital master control systems.The 2250 kVA gensets work in conjunction with a UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply) system of batteries. In the event of a mains failure, the UPS system maintains power supply until the three gensets come on line and take over within 10 seconds. The Cummins master control systems provide mains paralleling which allows seamless transfer of the data centre loads back to mains supply after a power outage. This means there is no power interruption from generator supply to mains supply after an outage, so there is no impact on data centre services or computer systems. The mains paralleling also benefits maintenance test runs in that the generators can be regularly exercised with true data centre loads without interrupting the building power supply.
David Levinge, who headed up the project for Cummins Brisbane, says the reputation of the Cummins Power Generation product and the ability to meet a short delivery time were key to the project success. He points out that limited space and access were a real challenge for the project with the basement level the only option for the genset installation.
 A number of meetings were held with the consulting engineers, ARUP, to bring all the concepts into a functional system. This included the final operational philosophy of having three incoming mains supplies and each genset being able to synchronise with its respective feeder supply. “Each generator needed to have its ‘top’ engine components, such as turbochargers, removed to reduce the height of the equipment for installation,” Levinge points out. “All components removed were reassembled on site by our power generation service team to a high standard to ensure integrity of the equipment.”
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For the second year in a row, the RS20A/AC residential generator from Cummins Onan has been ranked No. 1 in Quality in Builder magazine’s 2011 Brand Use survey. As a result, Cummins Onan has been awarded a 2012 Brand Leader Award by the magazine for the category of residential generators, a distinction the brand also earned in 2011.
Builder magazine is a leading publication covering residential construction in the U.S. The Brand Use Study is conducted each year by the magazine’s publisher, Hanley-Wood, and Readex, a nationally recognized independent research company. The study asks over 10,000 builders, builder-developers, and general contractors about their brand preferences in some 80 product categories. For each product category, one question the respondents answered was: How would you rate the QUALITY of each brand you are familiar with?
Chad Boutet, marketing manager, Residential and Commercial Property for Cummins Power Generation, said, “We are gratified to receive this recognition again from home builders and Builder Magazine. It reinforces the outstanding reputation of the RS20A/AC, which has also been recognized as the quietest in a comparison of four leading competitors and has received a Gold Award in Consulting-Specifying Engineer’s (CSE’s) Product of the Year Competition.”
The RS20A residential standby generator can run on either natural gas or propane and is linked directly to the homeowner’s permanent fuel supply. The unit is permanently installed outdoors, but it offers an in-home display, email notification and remote monitoring via the Internet. The unit comes with a 5-year,
2,000-hour limited warranty, is EPA and CARB Emissions Certified and is designed and manufactured in the USA.
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30th October 2011 was a milestone for Cummins Power Generation’s presence in Japan, when the country’s distributor Cummins Japan Ltd celebrated its 50th anniversary.
Cummins Japan Ltd (CJL) was established in 1961 as Komatsu-Cummins Sales Co. Ltd, a 50-50 joint venture that produced the N743 engines, made under license agreement at the Komatsu Oyama Plant. In 1985, Cummins Diesel (Japan) Ltd a wholly owned subsidiary of Cummins Inc. took over the business at Komatsu-Cummins Sales Co Ltd when licensing agreement terminated.
In 2002, Cummins Diesel (Japan) Ltd merged with Cummins North Asia (also established 50 years ago as a branch of Cummins Inc.) and Cummins Japan Ltd. was inaugurated.
Showing respect to the restoring efforts for the March 11 disaster, an internal celebration party was organized in place of the grander affair originally planned that would have included customers, dealer partners and employees.
 On their way back to the States, CEO Tim Solso and COO Tom Linebarger attended the 21st October event, and presented the strategic importance of the Japanese market for the Cummins power brand.
All CJL employees appreciate support from customers, partners, and colleagues from the global Cummins family over the years, and look forward to deliver even more success and impressive results for the years to come.
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Tagged APAC, Event, Sparks
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Aside from engineering and providing effective power to the people, Cummins Power Generation strongly believes in giving back to the local communities it resides in.
From day one, Corporate Responsibility has always featured strongly in the Cummins organization’s core values – that is, to serve and improve the communities in which we live. Our credo is that the organization is only as healthy as the communities in which we conduct business.
Thus, Cummins Singapore employees have regularly volunteered time and efforts to help address various communities’ needs, engaging in discussions to find solutions, enforce these solutions by building coalitions, and apply resources and skills towards finding improvements.
The CIC (Community Involvement Committee) team recently came forward to support Singapore Red Cross (SRC) Red Cross Flag Day 2012, for its annual fundraising campaign in aid of local humanitarian causes.
21 CIC members came together on the 17th and 18th January to label 7,650 cash collection tins. The team’s hard work helped SRC in getting their collection tools certified in time, which will be used on 11th February to collect public donations.
The proceeds will go towards helping the severely-handicapped residents at the Rec Cross Home for the Disabled, transport subsidies via Red Cross Non-Emergency Ambulance Services, training SRC volunteers in first-aid for disaster readiness, public first-aid education, youth development & leadership training for Red Cross cadets and members, amongst other worthy causes.
I stand with our CIC team, proud and with appreciation to my colleagues for their time, hearts and hands – Anton But, Beerendralal Karunakaran, Betty See, Boon Teo, Chan Min Jia, Cheong Mee Boon, Fabian Bong, Joan Wong, Lennon Teo, Lixuan Huang, Michael Parkin, Manjunatha Nanjundaiah, Murali Arumugham, Ng Boon Hwa, R. Lalitha, Sharon Chai, Soh Leng Leng, Susan Ho, Tai Shok Ling, Vanessa Poh, and Zoey Lin.
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 Cummins generators around the Super Bowl Village in Indianapolis, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. (Photo by AJ Mast) Cummins Power Generation is helping to keep things running in the Super Bowl Village in Indianapolis, Ind.
Local distributor Cummins Crosspoint has provided 23 generators, totaling 3.04 MW, to support attractions, displays, lighting, heat (tents and benches), food preparation and sales, broadcast support for non-NFL media and portable restrooms at Super Bowl Village, a 10-day festival in downtown Indianapolis leading up to Super Bowl XLVI on Feb. 5. In addition, two 500-kW rental generators are paralleled together to provide redundant power at the media center during live broadcasts of the football championship, one of the most watched sporting events in the world.
Crosspoint President Dave Smitson and Crosspoint Vice President Power Generation Greg Gilmore were involved in the early discussions with the Super Bowl Host Committee to determine needs and how Crosspoint could best serve them. Once the details were finalized, Jay Eubanks, who oversees planned maintenance and rental sales for Crosspoint in central Indiana, stepped in to coordinate delivery, set-up and service of all the units.
Thanks to the power of Cummins and Crosspoint, Super Bowl fans are flying along zip lines, enjoying Indy’s culinary treats, and keeping warm in downtown Indianapolis, while the rest of the world enjoys coverage from their televisions, radios, laptops and phones.
(By Jennifer Gombach – Director of Marketing, Cummins Crosspoint, LLC)
 Cummins generators around the Super Bowl Village in Indianapolis, Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012. (Photo by AJ Mast)
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Whenever and wherever you need rental power, we can help. Our rental expertise focuses on delivering total mobile power solutions that solve your — and your customers’ — biggest challenges.
So just stop by Booth 9935 in Construction Hall J at the ARA Rental Show, February 6–8 at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. Our rental experts will be on hand to help you find the right rental power solution with generator sets from 60 kW to 2 MW. In addition, we’ll also be featuring our latest T4i-compliant G-Drive engines for rental applications.
Can’t make it to the show? No problem. You’re only a click away to finding out more.
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Tagged ARA, Rental, Show
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We know it’s a tough job, but somebody has to do it. So as much as our  Cummins Onan team would like to stay in wintery Minnesota February 16–20, we’ll be in sunny Florida at the Miami Boat Show instead.
Stop by Booth M93 in the Convention Center to say hello and check out the latest in quiet, reliable marine generators. Our digital generators from 4-99 KW give you smart power with extensive diagnostics, including self-monitoring capability and network communication. We’ll also let you in on what our engineers have been doing to make these generators even better. For example, we now have the new Acoustical Testing Center (ATC) on our Fridley campus. With the ATC, we can precisely measure noise output and identify noise sources, which will help us design even quieter models.
No wonder more and more world-class boat makers and marine dealers have selected Cummins Onan generators in recent years. See you at the Center!
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