Integrated Switchboard provides space savings.
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Suited for commercial office, hospital, retail, hotel, and school settings, ISB Integrated Switchboard includes power panels up to 1,200 A, lighting panels 400 A and less, A-Series lighting control panels, transformers 150 kVa and less, lighting contactors 400 A and less, and back mounting plates. Speedi Integrated Switchboard Configurator allows authorized distributors and sales people to configure switchboard, create drawings, and order directly from field.
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GE Introduces Space-Saving, Easy-to-Install Integrated Switchboard
PLAINVILLE, CT-GE Consumer & Industrial's Integrated Switchboard (ISB) for application in commercial office, hospital, retail, hotel and school settings, offers electrical contractors, consultants and facility owners up to a 50-percent space reduction and as much as a 75-percent installation labor savings compared with traditional, non-integrated product solutions.
GE's ISB includes an expansive product scope: power panels up to 1200A; lighting panels (AQ, AE, AL) 400A and less; A-Series Lighting Control Panels; transformers (including TP1) 150KVA and less; lighting contactors 400A and less; and back mounting plates.
"Our ISB stands out thanks to its small footprint and inventive design, a GE hallmark that speeds wiring time and cuts back on unnecessary materials," says Ray Tingle, product manager, GE Consumer & Industrial. "This is a direct answer to customer demand for space savings, cost reductions, greater flexibility and GE reliability."
A new "Speedi Integrated Switchboard Configurator" tool shortens production lead times to 6 weeks. It allows authorized distributors and sales people to configure integrated switchboards, create drawings and order directly from the field or customer location. In addition to shortening lead times, the Speedi Integrated Switchboard Configurator also provides the ability to order scope variations without appealing to the facility, and allows engineering and pricing similar to standard switchboards, power panels and lighting panels. Users of the tool can "drag-and-drop" various components into an "available section" or "auto-configure" (whereby components are automatically positioned for the most space-efficient solution), and then transmit files directly to plants for manufacturing.
The GE ISB solution allows companies to move other equipment from the factory floor to an environmentally protected electrical room, an action that can increase the life span of equipment. In addition to its small footprint, reduced installation costs and Speedi configuration, GE's ISB solution offers:
one tight shipping package to minimize shipping damage, breakage and loss from multiple shipments of loose components; and
a modular design for consistency across a multi-platform system and greater application versatility.
The solution meets the following specification standards: NEMA PB1, UL Standard 891, UL 67, UL 50, UL 489, NEMA ST20, UL 508.
To learn more about potential product applications, current distributors should contact 1-800-GE-1STOP. New customers should visit the "Where to Buy" or "Contact Us" links at www.geelectrical.com.
GE Consumer & Industrial spans the globe as an industry leader in major appliance, lighting and integrated industrial equipment, systems and services. Providing solutions for commercial, industrial and residential use in more than 100 countries, GE Consumer & Industrial uses innovative technologies and "ecomagination," a GE initiative to aggressively bring to market new technologies that help customers and consumers meet pressing environmental challenges, to deliver comfort, convenience and electrical protection and control. General Electric (NYSE: GE) brings imagination to work, selling products under the Monogram®, Profile(TM) GE®, Hotpoint®, SmartWater(TM) Reveal®, Edison(TM) and Energy Smart(TM) consumer brands, and Entellisys(TM) industrial brand. For more information, consumers may visit www.ge.com.
