Continue here.IMPulse unveiling cable theft detection system
IMPulse NC LLC is the leading U.S. manufacturer for overhead contact wire (catenary) hardware, with products worldwide through its Ohio Brass heritage dating back to 1888. The company is always innovating with new technology and customers will find the latest products on display at its booth during EXPO.
New this year is a Cable Theft Detection system that uses the revolutionary Spread Spectrum Time-Domain Reflectometry (SSTDR), made possible by LiveWire Innovation. This allows users to see into the cable environment and watch for changes without interfering with the wire circuit. It works on live and de-energized cables that will immediately transmit any alert or event wirelessly. Cable theft does not have to happen, and now, you can protect your cable investments.
In addition, IMPulse NC was recognized as a Champion of Change by the White House for its 21st Century Transportation Technology to monitor and detect changes in a catenary system via IMProOCS. The IMProOCS technology saves time, money and improves service while automatically providing safety and security protection. . . .
IMPulse unveiling cable theft detection system
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Metro Magazine, 10/13:
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USDOT "Fast Lane" blog, 10/29:
Eastern North Carolina powering American transportation
Posted by Anthony Foxx
Eastern North Carolina struggles with persistent poverty. The region was hit hard by the recession.
But what I saw during my visits with Congressman G.K. Butterfield to the towns of Kinston and Mount Olive really impressed me. Eastern North Carolina is bouncing back. And they’re doing it by rebuilding their economy around transportation.
Anchoring the region’s transformation into a logistics hub is Global TransPark. The multimodal site is home to Kinston Regional Jetport, not to mention an aircraft supplier, Spirit AeroSystems, which plans to expand its workforce there to more than 1,000.
Spirit Aerosystems even has a training facility at Global TransPark, its Composite Center of Excellence, where I met with a dozen students who were excited to be getting hands-on training in manufacturing skills that will serve them well in aerospace and related industries.
It makes sense this would happen in Eastern North Carolina. The spirit of innovation that led to aviation and aerospace began on this region’s coastline. And over the last few decades, but particularly the last five years, aerospace has made a big comeback, bringing a new regional economy with it.
Meanwhile, federal investments in passenger rail and transit are benefiting the region, especially a town called Mount Olive. And they’re helping Mount Olive even though it doesn’t even have a bus stop and the nearest train station to this small, rural community is more than 30 miles away.
Here’s the reason why: It’s because in other cities like Los Angeles and Salt Lake City and Pittsburgh, passengers are riding trains that, in a sense, are powered by a Mount Olive company. The company is called IMPulse; it employs 25 people and works with a whole network of American suppliers, specializing in producing hardware components supporting the wiring that feeds power into the trains, streetcars, and trolleys that millions of Americans ride every day.
Gary Thigpen, the lead man on the floor, has worked for IMPulse for 16 years, and is skilled in all aspects of manufacturing and assembling.
He and his wife, Debbie, have been married for 38 years and have two children: Brad, 32, and Tonya, 34. Brad went to work at a local utility company right out of high school, while Tonya attended college and now works for a pharmaceutical company.
“It provided a steady income,” Gary said of his work at IMPulse. “It pays for groceries, and provided for their education.”
Gary does not follow debates about transportation funding in Washington that closely – but when your livelihood depends on it, there’s little to debate.
“If there’s no funding,” Gary said, “the work is nil.”
For IMPulse, the game changer, believe it or not, could be high-speed rail. Workers here also build parts for Amtrak’s electrified Northeast Corridor and are looking forward to participating in the Caltrain modernization project in California, President Jeff Wharton said.
So, while high-speed trains won’t be pulling into this town soon, the IMPulse team – which, by the way, has an amazing 98 percent compliance rate with our Buy America program – hopes they’ll one day have a big hand in meeting record-demand for train travel and modernizing our transportation system.
“That’s what we’re here for,” Gary said.
And that’s why I continue fighting for the GROW AMERICA Act. It’s a long-term transportation funding bill that would increase transit investment by 70 percent and for the first provide dedicated funding for passenger rail. But it’s more than that. This is a proposal – as my visit to Eastern North Carolina made clear – to build a transportation system that’s simply as good as the American people are.
Eastern North Carolina powering American transportation
Posted by Anthony Foxx
Eastern North Carolina struggles with persistent poverty. The region was hit hard by the recession.
But what I saw during my visits with Congressman G.K. Butterfield to the towns of Kinston and Mount Olive really impressed me. Eastern North Carolina is bouncing back. And they’re doing it by rebuilding their economy around transportation.
Anchoring the region’s transformation into a logistics hub is Global TransPark. The multimodal site is home to Kinston Regional Jetport, not to mention an aircraft supplier, Spirit AeroSystems, which plans to expand its workforce there to more than 1,000.
Spirit Aerosystems even has a training facility at Global TransPark, its Composite Center of Excellence, where I met with a dozen students who were excited to be getting hands-on training in manufacturing skills that will serve them well in aerospace and related industries.
It makes sense this would happen in Eastern North Carolina. The spirit of innovation that led to aviation and aerospace began on this region’s coastline. And over the last few decades, but particularly the last five years, aerospace has made a big comeback, bringing a new regional economy with it.
Meanwhile, federal investments in passenger rail and transit are benefiting the region, especially a town called Mount Olive. And they’re helping Mount Olive even though it doesn’t even have a bus stop and the nearest train station to this small, rural community is more than 30 miles away.
Here’s the reason why: It’s because in other cities like Los Angeles and Salt Lake City and Pittsburgh, passengers are riding trains that, in a sense, are powered by a Mount Olive company. The company is called IMPulse; it employs 25 people and works with a whole network of American suppliers, specializing in producing hardware components supporting the wiring that feeds power into the trains, streetcars, and trolleys that millions of Americans ride every day.
Gary Thigpen, the lead man on the floor, has worked for IMPulse for 16 years, and is skilled in all aspects of manufacturing and assembling.
He and his wife, Debbie, have been married for 38 years and have two children: Brad, 32, and Tonya, 34. Brad went to work at a local utility company right out of high school, while Tonya attended college and now works for a pharmaceutical company.
“It provided a steady income,” Gary said of his work at IMPulse. “It pays for groceries, and provided for their education.”
Gary does not follow debates about transportation funding in Washington that closely – but when your livelihood depends on it, there’s little to debate.
“If there’s no funding,” Gary said, “the work is nil.”
For IMPulse, the game changer, believe it or not, could be high-speed rail. Workers here also build parts for Amtrak’s electrified Northeast Corridor and are looking forward to participating in the Caltrain modernization project in California, President Jeff Wharton said.
So, while high-speed trains won’t be pulling into this town soon, the IMPulse team – which, by the way, has an amazing 98 percent compliance rate with our Buy America program – hopes they’ll one day have a big hand in meeting record-demand for train travel and modernizing our transportation system.
“That’s what we’re here for,” Gary said.
And that’s why I continue fighting for the GROW AMERICA Act. It’s a long-term transportation funding bill that would increase transit investment by 70 percent and for the first provide dedicated funding for passenger rail. But it’s more than that. This is a proposal – as my visit to Eastern North Carolina made clear – to build a transportation system that’s simply as good as the American people are.
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