One basic material used in the switchboard is the copper busbar. I currently think that no innovation has been made on the busbar design, as the majority of the use is still remaining flat copper bar. Read the rest of this entry »
Tell me the subjects to share about on my blog
July 6th, 2009 | 14 Comments | Posted in Your needs ? You want to contribute ?
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Say it here !
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It can be a general theme (like technical subjects, business, finance, software and web tips …),
or specific subjects.
The more comments & ideas, the better, to make this blog also yours !
Financial crisis: an “extraordinay” situation to manage the best you can
June 24th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in Business and Market, FinanceTags: Credit insurance, Financial crisis, Human resources
Brendan MEEHAN, Managing Director of BMC manufacturing, panel builder in Ireland, shares with us how the financial crisis affects his company, and the impacts he had and still has to deal with …
You can listen to Brendan’s testimony, or read the summary below
IEC 61439 : frequently asked questions (part 2)
June 23rd, 2009 | 2 Comments | Posted in Electrical StandardsTags: assemblies, low voltage, standard, switchgear
Here are simple answers to 3 other questions about the new IEC standard :
Team work, Project management…all the free software you need for a collaborative work!
June 22nd, 2009 | 2 Comments | Posted in Software, Web tipsTags: Collaboration tools, Collaborative, Groupware, Online editor, Project, Team work, Video conferencing
To begin with, there is a first level of tools called “cooperative tools”. This kind of tool is made to enable team members to communicate between themselves. We can cite as example mail, chat, video conferencing or whiteboard. In other words, these tools are the basics of team working in a company and you must be using them every day.
But if they enable colleagues to communicate, they don’t enable them to work on the same goal and with the same files. That’s why a new generation of tools is more and more used by companies: “Online collaboration tools”…
Effective surge protection installation into an electrical switchboard?
June 19th, 2009 | Make a comment | Posted in DesignTags: electrical installation, electrical switchboard, lightning, lightning protection, surge protection, surge protector
Many Electrical Contractors and Panel builders ask this question.
To achieve the effective installation of the surge protection, the surge arrester’s connections to the grid should be as short as possible. Any cable crossed by a lightning impulse current has a significant voltage to be added to the Surge Protection Device (SPD) residual voltage.
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IEC 61439 : frequently asked questions
June 15th, 2009 | 1 Comment | Posted in Electrical StandardsTags: assemblies, low voltage, standard, switchgear
Coming back to the new IEC 61439 standard :
simple answers to the 3 most frequently asked questions … Read the rest of this entry »
Switchboard service & maintenance: an attractive business!
May 27th, 2009 | 3 Comments | Posted in Business and Market, Service and maintenanceTags: Harmonic analysis, Power factor analysis, service and maintenance, thermal imaging, web site
Thermal imaging
Brendan MEEHAN, Managing Director
of BMC manufacturing, panel builder in Ireland,
describes the service and maintenance business
he has developed, and all the benefits he gets
from this complementary activity …
You can listen to Brendan’s interview
or read its textual version below …
Busbar and distribution systems in electrical switchboards : make or buy?
May 14th, 2009 | 15 Comments | Posted in BusbarTags: Busbar, busbar supports, distribution system, type tested
For more than 30 years, electrical equipment manufacturers have developed some very attractive busbar and distribution systems (standard busbar profiles & sizes, busbar supports, comb busbar, distribution systems & accessories) to distribute power inside these electrical equipments in an easy and safe way, especially when they are type-tested.
As far as I see it a lot of panel builder use partially or totally these busbar systems …
Main evolutions of my panel builder organization along the time (part 2)
May 7th, 2009 | 8 Comments | Posted in Quality, SoftwareTags: AutoCAD, design software, document management software, information, panel builder organisation, quotation software
Second part of the testimony of Mr Alain LEBAS, from LEBAS SYSTEM, France. You can find the first part here.
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The globalisation of information
We started with 3 computers bought at different periods that became rapidly obsolete and non coherent; now we have 15 that we have decided to rent to one supplier; they are renewed and updated each 3 years.
Then we tackled the issue of production, exchange, update, archive, of all commercial and technical data; we are proud that in all departments the same information, the same format, the same library is shared and permanently updated; if you click on a project, on a customer name, on a product, you will find only the one and right information; and on all that we have been helped by using OrganiGED software (a Document Management software proposed by Ricoh in France, not sure what is the equivalent in English)
