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PANELFACTS
February, 2005
Lots has been
happening at The Panel Shop during the past year that we thought might be
of interest to you, our valued customers and associates. We intend this to
be the first of a regular newsletter that will bring you a variety of
information about us, our people, our services and products and other
technical issues which you might find of interest. For those with whom we
have yet to partner, we hope that this newsletter will arouse your
interest about how we might work together in the future.
~Your contacts at The Panel Shop ~
John McGraw - Electrical Engineer
Shelley Warman - Design Technician
Mike Hickey - Design Technician
Eric Mersereau - Production Technician
Tony Giberson - Production Technician
Kay McGraw - Office Manager/Accounting
Rob McNair - Electrical Engineer
~ Staff updates ~
The Panel Shop has had a few recent changes in staff. Art
Gunn is working nearby at his local office and continues to be a valued
consultant to our staff. One of our valued Production Technicians,
Greg Webber has taken a new career path; choosing to pursue his
passion for music... catch him on tour with Bucket Truck, a successful
Canadian metal band. Shelley Warman will be temporarily out on
maternity leave as she is expecting her second child in late March.
Rob McNair has recently joined the team here at The Panel Shop. Our
expertise continues to develop as we are in our 10th year of operation...
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~ SCADA ~
We are nearing successful completion
of a new Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition project in the community
of Baker Brook, New Brunswick. This project monitors Potable and
Wastewater systems at 8 locations throughout the community via wireless
communication links. Central monitoring of well levels, individual
pump status at each lift station, and various other data is available at
town hall with computer based graphical display software for ease of use. Also, we
are presently implementing a similar project in the community of St.
Stephen, New Brunswick which shall be installed and functional in the near
future. These projects are a logical extension of our custom pump control
expertise and we have high expectations for future SCADA projects.
Contact us to see how we can put you in control of your municipal potable
and wastewater system.
~ CONTEST ~
Name the Blobs !
We have had some very positive comments so far and are
proud to introduce our new look to you at this time. Many of you may be
wondering what the significance of the graphic part of our logo (the
blobs) might be and from some of you we have had very interesting and
varied opinions. Building on this early feedback, we thought it might be
interesting to see how many varied opinions we might gather. For all of
you who submit to us by fax or e-mail your best guess at what the graphic
means to you, we will send you a small token of appreciation for the
interest you have shown. For the best idea submitted as judged by our
staff, we will send the winner a $100.00 gift certificate to Mark’s Work
Warehouse. We will publish the compiled list of your ideas in a future
issue of PANELFACTS along with the name of the winner.
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~ ISO9000 ~
As of August 2000, The Panel Shop has been registered
by The Quality Management Institute as an ISO9001 company. In our
continuing goal and desire to bring you the highest quality products that
we can produce, we are engaged in a quality program to help guide us and
monitor our processes from quoting, designing, production and testing of
our products. We monitor and audit ourselves on an ongoing basis and are
audited annually by an external auditor in an effort to continuously
improve our processes as we grow our business together.
~ Brief History ~
In the fall of 1995, two electrical engineers, Arthur
Gunn and John McGraw each having operated their own consulting practice
for a number of years and having worked in industry prior to that, decided
to start a small manufacturing business. Today The Panel Shop employs a
full time staff of 10 people including engineers, technicians and various
support staff. To date we have built over 1000 panels ranging from simple
custom junction boxes to large PLC based operator consoles. We have built
a customer base in the mining, pulp, and paper, petroleum, food
processing, industries and in various other sectors including Municipal,
Provincial and Federal Governments. To date we have panels in service in 8
provinces and 7 US states and are currently working on our first off-shore
project.
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~ How to Reach us ~
Address:
1925 Hanwell Road
Fredericton, NB
E3C 1M4
Telephone: (506) 455-1925
Fax: (506) 459-3400
e-mails: panels@thepanelshop.com
Web: www.thepanelshop.com
~ How we can
help you ~
There are numerous ways that our customers benefit from
our products and services including the following:
- Product sourcing service,
- Rapid response on stocked items,
- Product Design services,
- Assembly,
- Testing,
- Certification,
- PLC Programming,
- Field startup and trouble-shooting
~ Some of
our Products ~
- Motor Control
Panels
- PLC Panels
- Operator Consoles
- Softstarts and VFDs
- Junction Boxes
- Custom Cable Assemblies
- Equipment skid wiring
- Your ideas
Give us a call, visit our web site, drop in
for a visit anytime...
(We make a great cup of coffee!)
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