Panel builder Wepan refuses to compromise on quality
Meet Gert van Wensen, director of Wepan in the South of the Netherlands. As a fitter and panel builder, he knows that flexibility and speed are important for many clients, but he refuses to compromise on quality. That’s one of the reasons why he has been working with Omron for more than twenty years. “We have never had problems with the PLCs or other components.”
“I regard panel building as a profession”, explains Van Wensen, director at Wepan. “It’s not just about attaching components to a rail or laying cables. We are given a drawing, and we take an empty base plate with the intention of converting it into a high-quality product. That means we only use quality products and spend a lot of time on details such as the lettering of the components in a switch box cabinet.”
Wepan is a medium sized business employing eighteen personnel, involved in electrotechnical installation and panel building. Although Wepan is also active in commercial construction and industrial automation, refrigeration and ventilation equipment represents about sixty percent of their turnover. For example, Wepan is active in the construction and installation of large refrigeration and freezer stores in the Netherlands, Great Britain and Germany. Apart from panel building, Wepan is also involved in design, engineering, installation and maintenance. Wepan has special equipment and machines for developing and building control and operating panels, power and light installations up to 1600A, and for testing them according to EC machinery directives
