National Board has announced Jim Pillow, chair of the operating committee for Common Arc Corporation, will address the General Session of the 80^th Meeting this May in Las Vegas. The topic: The Code and Common Arc – Assuring Integrity While Bringing Efficiencies to American Industry.

 

Mr. Pillow has over 35 years experience as a quality assurance and control specialist in installation, repair, and maintenance of ASME power boilers, pressure vessels, and ancillary equipment in utility and industrial power plants. Before joining Common Arc, he was an employee of APComPower, a division of Alstom Power Inc., in Windsor, Connecticut, where he managed the company’s quality, welding, NDE, and construction engineering groups. 

 

Mr. Pillow is presently a member of the Committee on National Board Inspection Code. He has been a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for nearly 25 years, during which he has been actively involved in numerous code committees, subgroups, and task groups, including the BPV Committee on Power Boilers (I) and the ASME Board on Conformity Assessment. He is also co-author with John MacKay of the soon-to-be-published second edition of Power Boilers: A Guide to Section I of the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code.