As a project manager or engineer, you constantly deal with tight deadlines, budget constraints, and demanding clients. One of the key challenges you face is delivering a high-quality product while ensuring you meet project timelines and budgets. OEMs want to focus on the overall equipment’s capability; complex controls can be an additional task that can take away from a system’s success and time to market.
When it comes to control Panel work, outsourcing to a System Integrator Panel Shop can be a smart move. Here are six reasons to outsource your control panel work to a Panel shop that is part of a System Integrator.
1. Cost-Effective
System Integrator Panel Shops have the expertise, experience, and resources to design and manufacture control panels efficiently and cost-effectively.
OEMs often face resource constraints. Partnering with a System Integrator Panel shop can bridge the skills gap within your OEM organization. TEC is here to assist not only in panel construction but also to fill your skill shortages in areas like drafting, programming, startup, and ongoing support.
2. Customization
System Integrator Panel Shops offers the expertise to understand your needs and design a control panel that works best for your project. They also provide value-added services such as testing, commissioning, and training to ensure your control panels work optimally.
A professional panel shop can help provide a safe and compliant product with third-party certifications like UL508a. These certifications can be costly and difficult to navigate for an OEM who is trying to manage a larger system’s delivery.
3. Quality
Quality is often a critical concern when it comes to control panel work. Outsourcing to a System Integrator Panel Shop can give you peace of mind that your control panel work is in the hands of experts with extensive experience and knowledge. Our System Integrator Panel Shop follows strict quality control processes and uses high-quality materials and components to manufacture its products.
4. Expand Market Share
An OEM’s core focus is new equipment, but end user’s legacy control system migrations can sometimes be a disruption to an OEM when the system only requires part of the team’s skills or the capacity of the OEM is reached. Many times a control system migration only requires part of the OEM’s staff and could cause an imbalance in the businesses resources or simply the OEM’s capacity reached. Partner with TEC to help handle the customer service control migration control work, which can be delivered through the OEM. The end user customer retains the OEM’s expertise while the OEM retains the customer. TEC can develop the upgraded system with the OEM’s standards, prints, and code to allow for the OEM’s continued support.
5. Time-to-Market
An OEM can reduce your time-to-market significantly. System Integrator Panel Shop uses streamlined processes and can complete projects faster than you might be able to accomplish in-house. A System Integrator Panel Shop can hand custom additions that can be time-consuming for an OEM’s engineering and facilities. Additionally, outsourcing to a panel shop can free up your time so that you can focus on other critical aspects of your projects. TEC can develop the upgraded system following the OEM’s standards for prints, code, and operator interface to allow for the OEM’s continued support.
6. Scale-up or Scale-down
System Integrator Panel Shop has the flexibility to accommodate your project needs, whether you need a high volume of control panels or just a few. You won’t be locked into a specific production capacity and can adjust your requirements as per your project demands.
Outsourcing your control panel work to TEC Systems Group can be a smart business decision. Turn to our seasoned experts, including team member Jason Lemasters, our Senior Control Systems Engineer, P.E., who brings more than a decade of controls, OEM business development, and leadership experience. You can rely on Jason’s proficiency to ensure success on your next control panel configuration.