Control panels & switchboards

Control panels for automation, machines and plants

We build panels you can review in 3D and test at FAT before they are delivered.

The control panel is the point in the delivery where most decisions converge: component selection, sizing, heat calculation, space constraints, labelling and the interfaces to installation and software. Late changes in the project often end up as changes in the panel. That is why we build from a drawing package you have approved in 3D — and test the panel while it is still in the workshop.

Control panels are designed in EPLAN in close cooperation with production. Changes from the workshop are written into the drawing package as new revisions, so the as-built documentation matches the panel that was delivered — terminal by terminal.

The build follows the drawing package: component placement from the approved 3D layout, cable routing with room for later extensions, and labelling of components, terminals and cables to the agreed standard. Heat dissipation and sizing are calculated during design, so the panel keeps its operating temperature in the environment where it will be installed.

Component selection is free and independent. We size according to the plant, component availability and your maintenance, and you can see the reasoning in the open cost calculations. If a component is under- or oversized in the brief, it is caught and corrected during design.

Free component selection is also a matter of supply security. If a component is discontinued or has a long lead time, we can choose an alternative that is documented and justified in the same way — without changing the panel's function or your ability to service it.

Control panels are built and tested in Vejle, Esbjerg and Szczecin from the same drawing package and to the same documentation requirements. The task and the delivery time decide which workshop builds your panel — not geography. If the scope grows along the way, production can be split across several workshops.

The interfaces to the rest of the delivery are designed into the panel. Terminal strips and labelling match the installation's cable schedule, the software's I/O list matches the panel's physical build, and the FAT is carried out against the programme that will run on the plant. On delivery, the installer and the commissioning engineer therefore receive a panel that matches the documentation — and the rest of the plant.

We build control panels for automation projects, machine controls and process plants — one-off and repeat deliveries for machine builders and OEMs, and panels for industry in general. For repeat deliveries the drawing package is already approved, and every panel is built and tested from the same basis — so machine number twenty gets the same panel as machine number one.

Whether it is one panel or the first twenty in a production series, the same drawing package, the same labelling principle and the same test plan lie behind it — so you know exactly what you are getting, every time.

A panel delivery is not just the panel itself — it is the complete basis that comes with it:
– Approved 3D layout and electrical schematics in EPLAN
– Bills of materials (BOM) and open cost calculations with component justifications
– Panel built, labelled and wired according to the drawing package
– FAT to a test plan, with test report
– As-built documentation that matches the delivered panel

Tech Eltavler is our switchboard workshop. See what the workshop builds, or place your project with us.

The panel can stand alone as a delivery — or form part of a larger responsibility with us, where software, installation and service are built in from the design stage. Interfaces and documentation stay connected, wherever the line is drawn.