Introduction

In a nutshell Control Panel Consulting exist to help with your next control system project, be it large or small. You know the story, an urgent requirement has reared its ugly head and you simply don't have the staff to cope.

Control Panel Consulting (CPC) provide end users, original equipment manufacturers and consulting engineers with a technical interface, filling the gap between allegedly knowing what is required and actually knowing what is required. Thinking you know what is needed is no longer acceptable. Knowing what is needed is the key issue. We all know that authority alone to buy is not enough. Taking responsibility is the important point. Having a good working knowledge of the Standards and Directives is vital to compliant design, correct manufacturing techniques, safe testing and meaningful certification. What with time constraints and tight profit margins, specifying becomes another one of those activities that everybody says they can do, but when it comes to it, nobody wants to for fear of messing up. Generally a control requirement needs a bespoke solution, that in turn requires a qualified understanding of that solution, along with a good grasp on the engineering issues and an appreciation of the available technologies to realise an acceptable compromise.

Control engineering excellence alone is not enough, good production engineering is only part of the story, capable production management can only bring so much to the party and accounting... well accounting is a necessary distraction. CPC can provide you with those skills needed to kick off a control project in the right direction, then see it through to it's correct conclusion.