It
is a fact, in the electrical construction sector, a company has no
choice but to develop skills to protect its own markets and to
avoid falling into a dangerous competitive situation. Meeting with
Michel Kajdan, Development Director at Peintamelec (France).
Specialized integrator, Peintamelec
makes the assembly and the wiring of electrical panels and switchboards.
With 400 employees spread over 7 sites in France and Romania, the group
realizes contracts of electrical construction and offers more widely
services for industrialization of products, industrial computing,
automated handling, integration of energy plants… “We are a company speciliazed in integration, says Michel Kadjan, Development Director at Peintamelec, we
have understood a long time ago that making simple switchboards without
added value is within the reach of low-cost suppliers. That’s why we
decided to focus on specialized work involving a maximum of
technicality.”
High added-value
Peintamelec realizes for example the
integration with high density of electrical components inside electrical
panels. The group answers to requests for tenders for electrical
installations requiring anti-seismic behaviour, or when there are
high thermal or environmental constraints. The engineering department
also handles projects with high constraints in terms of electromagnetic
compatibility. Not to mention the ability to program some equipments in
the workshop. “Generally speaking, we are willing to answer
specifications with high technical constraints! For this, we invest in
tools to facilitate the design and the dialogue with the customer. For
example, our 3D CAD software gives us the opportunity to present
numerical models of wire routing in 3 dimensions. Also, our customers
are asking us more and more often to use design tools which are
compatible with their own internal digital tools.”
Which choices in terms of devices?
“On international contracts, our
customers leave us less and less often the choice of the devices to be
integrated into the switchboards. It is clear that we are not
influencers or specifiers for the standard electrical devices.”
Towards a profession more and more specialized
Peintamelec has wiremen specialized for some specific markets: “The more constraints there are, the more technicality is required, which enables us to protect our business! This profession of electrical installations integrator takes a very “mechanical” turn, especially when dealing with embedded equipments, unlike the traditional electrical distribution for which it is only a question of sheet metal.”
The specialization also requires knowing the whole scope of relevant standards. “By entrusting us with specific achievements, the client transfers to us much of the responsibility for following standards evolutions.”
The manufacturing of switchboards and
the wiring of devices remains for Peintamelec a very manual job in which
each time saving is obviously welcome… “But in this field we do not see significant changes. However, we plan to consider the preparation of wiring upstream of cabling. This may be on this post that we can become more effective, in connection with a change in the way we work …
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