Press Release
Schneider Electric Launches Critical Power Competency Center February 26, 2004
PALATINE, Ill. - March 1, 2004 - Schneider Electric has launched a Critical Power Competency Center, integrating company-wide expertise to maximize its power reliability capability for companies that operate financial and corporate data centers. The initiative aims to provide customized but repeatable power distribution and management solutions tailored to the critical power market.
Based in Schneider Electric's Nashville, Tenn. office, the Competency Center merges the expertise of the company's Power Management Operations, as well as product design, development and distribution; program management, engineering, power consulting and resources from its facilities based in LaVergne and Smyrna, Tn and Columbia, S.C.. It is a cross-functional team that serves customers through every facet of a project, including power system design, order entry, project management and implementation. Schneider Electric has been actively involved in providing for the critical power needs of commercial and industrial facilities for many years, but now, the expertise that it has acquired will be integrated in a dedicated team of experts.
"With today's Critical Power customers calling for customized - but repeatable- power system platforms, we can package our solutions for a more orderly procurement process across multiple sites," said Mark Bidinger, director of the Competency Center. "We are concerned with quality and seamless execution of power system solutions for end-users."
The Competency Center is also concerned with communication and coordination across all channels to market, including generator manufacturers, UPS manufacturers, paralleling switchgear manufacturers, electrical contractors and consulting engineers. Any and all of these channels are points of entry for the Competency Center - its experts can be engaged by contractors, consultants, OEMs, or even end-users. Bidinger said he has two primary objectives for the Competency Center:Drive a programmatic, shared knowledge approach in using customer information internally while eliminating a fragmented approach, and
Provide one-stop solutions through integrated application and execution.
Initially, the Competency Center team is targeting financial and corporate data centers because these facilities have very acute needs for comprehensive critical power solutions. Schneider Electric will continue to provide its full range of products and expert critical power services to all other market segments as well.
"The complex needs of the Critical Power end-user dictate tight coordination of the Supplier's functional teams," Bidinger said. "By coordinating our expertise within the competency center we have an even better overall knowledge of the customer's electrical distribution system needs, and can provide even more effective solutions in a very convenient way for the end-user."
Based in Schneider Electric's Nashville, Tenn. office, the Competency Center merges the expertise of the company's Power Management Operations, as well as product design, development and distribution; program management, engineering, power consulting and resources from its facilities based in LaVergne and Smyrna, Tn and Columbia, S.C.. It is a cross-functional team that serves customers through every facet of a project, including power system design, order entry, project management and implementation. Schneider Electric has been actively involved in providing for the critical power needs of commercial and industrial facilities for many years, but now, the expertise that it has acquired will be integrated in a dedicated team of experts.
"With today's Critical Power customers calling for customized - but repeatable- power system platforms, we can package our solutions for a more orderly procurement process across multiple sites," said Mark Bidinger, director of the Competency Center. "We are concerned with quality and seamless execution of power system solutions for end-users."
The Competency Center is also concerned with communication and coordination across all channels to market, including generator manufacturers, UPS manufacturers, paralleling switchgear manufacturers, electrical contractors and consulting engineers. Any and all of these channels are points of entry for the Competency Center - its experts can be engaged by contractors, consultants, OEMs, or even end-users. Bidinger said he has two primary objectives for the Competency Center:
Initially, the Competency Center team is targeting financial and corporate data centers because these facilities have very acute needs for comprehensive critical power solutions. Schneider Electric will continue to provide its full range of products and expert critical power services to all other market segments as well.
"The complex needs of the Critical Power end-user dictate tight coordination of the Supplier's functional teams," Bidinger said. "By coordinating our expertise within the competency center we have an even better overall knowledge of the customer's electrical distribution system needs, and can provide even more effective solutions in a very convenient way for the end-user."