My company, Power Distribution Systems, is completely focused on electrical
power systems for Critical Power facilities. We've been involved in many,
many dozens of very large mission-critical facilities over the past 20
years.
Over time, these power systems have increased exponentially in terms of
loads served and in terms of system complexity, as we've asked our
"switchgear" to become smarter and smarter, to perform more and more
functions, and as we layered level after level of control and monitoring and
protective functions into the equipment.
About 15 years or so ago, we more or less "hit a wall" with this growth.
Not a single major U.S. manufacturer of electrical equipment had developed
the capabilities or capacity needed to keep pace with this growth in scope
and complexity. We would receive many millions of dollars worth of
switchgear at a particular site, and would spend literally months in
troubleshooting wiring errors and problems with functional operation of
control and protective systems. More disturbingly, while we would order
maybe 20 or 30 of "identical" lineups of equipment from a given manufacturer
for a particular project, we would find that no two of them were actually
alike when they arrived. A set of problems we'd find within one piece of
equipment would be completely different from the set of problems we'd find
in the next lineup.
I was introduced to Standard Controls in 1999. On my very first major
project with SCI, the equipment arrived at the site nearly perfectly wired.
Very, very few errors, and the equipment was successfully started up and
commissioned in record time, with minimal frustration and no wasted motion.
SCI has been successful in developing wiring methods and processes and
testing procedures that eliminate errors, and result in "identical" items of
equipment being truly "identical". At the same time, SCI has developed
capacity to turn out huge volumes of equipment with speed and accuracy.
This is a business where "ISO Certifications" and "Six Sigma" processes mean
what they were really supposed to mean back in the very beginning, before
those concepts became so polluted in so many ways, and devolved to become
simply buzzwords in so many manufacturing businesses.
The total package, in my view, is unmatched anywhere, and is phenomenally
capable.
Joe Guentert - Owner
Power Distribution Systems
16117 Riverpointe Drive
Charlotte, NC 28278
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