ADR Control (Abbey & Control Systems) offices in Wellington and Hamilton close for our summer break and Christmas/New Year holidays from Friday 21 December 2018, reopening Monday 7th January 2019.   

The staff of ADR Control want to thank all of our customers for their business over the last 12 months and wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.  We look forward to 2019 and some exciting new developments ahead. 
  
Emergency After Hours Support is available by calling Abbey Systems (04 385 6611) or Control Systems (07 846 0602).  Answer Services will attend any calls and forward them to an ADR staff member to respond.  Call out fees apply, even if there's a Support Contract in place.  

Seasons Greetings
Your ADR Control team

 

Registrations are now open for Abbey Systems 2018 Training Courses.  Details of the course content and costs are in the attached flyer.    

• General Operations:  Mon 1, Tue 2 October
• Programming:  Wed 3 October
• Reporting:  Thur 4 Oct
• Aspex HMI:  Fri 5 Oct
• Hardware & Technical: Tue 9 Wed, 10 October

To secure a place on any of these courses please contact Lesley Sloper 

• lsloper@adriley.co.nz
  
• phone 04 916 6994   

All Abbey Systems staff and production facility have now moved from our old building at 220 Willis Street to our new location at A.D. Riley's Thorndon Quay buildings. 

Physical address for all dispatches and deliveries:
Arthur D Riley & Co Ltd.
ADRControl - Abbey Systems
137 Thorndon Quay
Wellington 6140
t 04 472 7614

Postal Address:
Arthur D Riley & Co Ltd.
P.O. Box 3749
Wellington 6140

www.adriley.co.nz/control
www.abbey.co.nz
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In this issue;

• A wrap up of the 2017 year.
• Network Outage SAIDI /SAIFI Reporting. 
• Powerlink eMail Alarm module sends files too.
• Early Abbey RTUs - End of Repair Service Notification.
• Situation Vacant -  Control Systems Technician Engineer positions - Hamilton.

This years Abbey Systems Training Course dates are: 

• General Operations  Mon 6 & Tue 7 November  
• Programming          Wed 8 November 
• Reporting               Thur 9 November 
• Aspex HMI              Fri 10 November 
• Hardware & Technical   Mon 1 & Tue 14 November

The training venue is "The Thorndon Hotel Wellington Rydges". 24 Hawkestone St. Thorndon, Wellington. For more information please download the attached.  You can register on any of the courses by emailing your name and contact details to sales@adriley.co.nz or any one of our SCADA Applications Engineers or by calling us on (04) 385 6611.

Arthur D Riley & Co Ltd. (ADR) today announced the acquisition of Abbey Systems Ltd.’s (ASL) business assets, products and brands portfolio. The sale is effective 1 July 2017.

Arthur D Riley & Co is an established supplier in the Local Government and Utilities market and has successfully supplied quality products, technical competence and professional services to the water and power industries for over 100 years.

The ADR Control Division will now expand to include the ASL business, which specialises in the design and development of SCADA and telemetry products, for water, power, energy and broadcasting customers worldwide.

“This acquisition strengthens ADR’s position in the monitoring and control market, and builds on the purchase of Control Systems in Hamilton, four years ago” said Arthur D Riley & Co Ltd. Managing Director Garth Mickell.

Abbey Systems Ltd. Managing Director Tim Naylor said that this is an important step for the future of ASL, following the passing of founder Lester Abbey in 2016.  “This is a fantastic opportunity to continue to build on ASL’s success and legacy and a great outcome for all involved” said Naylor.

“Arthur D Riley & Co and Abbey Systems hold similar core values and have successfully worked together on a number of innovative projects over the years, including the Devonport Naval Base Electrical System alarm monitoring and control expansion, and a remote monitoring and control system for electricity on Chatham Islands”.

“This acquisition enhances existing synergies and builds on a strong existing relationship” said Naylor.”

“As the services of all current ASL management and staff have been secured, we anticipate a smooth transition, and are committed to providing customers with the highest level of service for existing and future projects and opportunities” said Mickell.

In this issue:

• Powerlink 3.8.0 New Features
  
• Wairoa District Council  - WWTP Tidal Clock project
  
• NEW SMS Alarm modem power switch
  
• Email Data & Graphs in Excel
  
• September 2017 Training Courses
  
• Improving Disaster Resilience
  
• Operating System Upgrades
  

Season Greetings - a year of change!
2016 has been Abbey Systems' "Annus Horribilis".  The 7.8 earthquake that struck Kaikoura early on 14 November fractured multiple faults and claimed two lives.  It also caused significant damage to buildings 150km away here in Wellington.  Fortunately our building wasn't one of them and most staff were back at work by the following day, that is until torrential rain caused several days of further transport issues in the region.  After the 2013 quakes in Seddon we had relocated emergency RTU stock to Hamilton, as backup for our customers.   It's not been needed this time but the Kaikoura shake has again focused us much more closely on building business resilience into Abbey Systems in the immediate future.  On a personal level, unsurprisingly emergency water tanks and generators are flying off retailers' shelves here.   
The much more emotional event for us this year was Lester Abbey's sudden death on a business trip to the US in June.  Many of us have worked for Lester and Abbey Systems for decades and it was like losing a parent.  Lester was friends with everyone, including his employees.   Following his death Tim Naylor was appointed Abbey Systems Managing Director; Tim was Lester's business partner and is a 50% shareholder in Abbey Systems.      
One of the reasons for Lester's trip to the US in June was that our US Office Manager, Walt Tevis is retiring at the end of 2016 and it was an opportunity to review the US business model again.  As a result of the events that unfolded, Abbey Systems has since closed its US office in Eugene, effective the end of November 2016.  All of our US RTU stock has been sent to our Utah Distributors, Remote Control Systems in Salt Lake City.  They will look after our West Coast customers' hardware requirements.   Walt previously worked for Umpqua Basin Water Association in Roseburg, Oregon and was instrumental in choosing our Swampfox VHF product for their system after a succesful trial period.  We'd like to thank Walt for choosing Abbey products and his following 6 years of service to Abbey Systems Inc. and wish him and Darci all the best for the future. 
We want to welcome our newest customers, Mackenzie District Council.  Mackenzie have already installed several Swampfox WTP site RTUs and use our Securelink product to remotely access Aspex HMI screens from their iPads.  
Other notable sales this year include;

• New Plymouth District Council - Swampfox RTUs for 2017 upgrade program
• Queenstown Lakes District Council - Powerlink 3.8.0 upgrade
• Gisborne District Council - Te Karaka Sewer pump station cellular scheme
• Landis + Gyr - EPL Injection Controllers
• Envirowaste - Hampton Downs, Landfill Leachate SCADA system upgrade & expansion
• Delta Utility Services - Migration of 12 substation Powercat RTUs in Central Otago to use DNP3/TCP communications
• Waipa Networks - Topcat RTUs for Feeder Automation
• Buller Networks - SCADA Master, Backup and SCADA Gateway upgrade
• Porirua City Council - Sewer pump station Swampfox RTU program suite standardisation

Abbey Systems would like to hear your feedback on our hardware and software products and services, any improvements we could make to the existing products or new products you'd like to see from us to fill a need.   Please email your ideas to tim@abbey.co.nz or steve@abbey.co.nz or reply to this email.   We'd really like to hear from you.
Tim Naylor & the staff of Abbey Systems wish to thank all of our customers for your business over the last 12 months.  We value our relationships with you and look forward to building on them in the New Year. 

We wish you and your families a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year.
Seasons Greetings from Abbey Systems       

Effective Monday 26 September 2016 the Shareholders of Abbey Systems Ltd are pleased to advise all customers, suppliers & colleagues of the appointment of Mr Timothy Naylor to the position of Managing Director.  Tim was previously the Development Director and is a Shareholder of Abbey Systems.  He has been with Abbey Systems since 1980. 

Two new DNP3 firmware features are available to customers using DNP3 as the comms protocol to remote sites;
DNP3 Analog Events  -  New firmware allows Abbey Systems DNP3 RTUs to store Analog "Events" from site measurements, rates or pulse inputs.
DNP3/IP Maintenance Master - Allows concurrent connection with a DNP3 SCADA Master to existing DNP3/IP Abbey M32c based RTUs, for remote support.

further details below.