Grant: Applied Research and Development Grants - Level 1

CARBER is one of the leading companies in servicing tools for the petro-chemical and many other industries where piping is one of the main production plant feature. CARBER Isolation is the only tool in providing a 100% confirmed and monitored Isolation and provides the safest means of performing hot work on contaminated piping. CARBER company was incorporated in 1994 and operated out of Sarnia, Ontario, Canada for many years until outgrew the facilities. All of the testing and manufacturing is done in Wallaceburg, Ontario, Canada. CARBER Wallaceburg technicians provide services to the area refineries and chemical plants, including Toronto and Montreal. The head office is now in Texas, USA and controls all of the CARBER divisions worldwide. The company as a whole has revenue of approximately 55 million dollars a year and growing. CARBER and Lambton College, School of Technology, Energy, and Apprenticeship, Sarnia, Ontario are working together for developing of a wireless web based monitoring & supervisory system in piping services. The use of the developed system will result in a safer place for worker performing hot work on contaminated piping, less damage to isolation tools and faster service to minimize down time for customer requiring new welds or isolation lines for hot work. The design and testing of the wireless monitoring & supervisory units will open the door for Canadian process instrumentation suppliers and maintenance companies working in the petro-chemical and refineries to compete nationally and globally using current technologies of communication and industrial control tools..The proposed project with Lambton College, Sarnia, Ontario is to develop remote monitoring and supervisory control added feature to the existing CARBER isolation tools. The new addition will provide a safer atmosphere for servicing technicians and allow for more space for other workers to complete their maintenance operation resulting in reducing downtime for piping work.CARBER believe this project would be instrumental in raising the company revenue streams by at least 3 to 5% immediately and possibly as high as 10% over five years and create 4 to 6 new employment opportunity for each maintenance work.