Over the last few weeks and into the next few months, we’re busy outfitting a new Truss, Frame, and Floor Manufacturing site with Spida machinery. All of our installations with customers are something special, and they are all unique with their own set of requirements to make the install seamless and the machinery hum. While we always test and run our machinery in the factory after they are built, there is something special about seeing them all together under one roof, cutting lumber then running trusses, floors, and frames.
This particular site install is a special one though. We are installing Spida machinery that has been designed and built to UL Standard 508A.
When we started talking to this very special customer, he had some conditions under which he was building his new plant – all his machinery purchases had to be UL Certified. So, not only did we make the decision to implement the required changes to our machinery to embrace UL requirements, we made the huge decision to become a UL Certified manufacturer and supplier to Industry, which meant we also redesigned our electrical cabinets (panels) to comply to the rigorous standards set by UL.
Now more than 12 months later, we are designing our machinery with the coveted UL Certification 508A in the US and Canada. How does this benefit our customers? It means that you have access to all of the advantages of UL 508A certification, including enhanced safety, compliance with regulations, increased customer confidence, the ability to meet certain standards that are sometimes imposed by your region, and most importantly the customer confidence of knowing that when seeing the UL marking, you know that your machinery control panels have gone through rigorous testing and design to be leaders in design, materials, and manufacturing techniques.
For Spida, this has been a massive undertaking to now produce machinery for the US and Canadian market that requires UL rated machinery. We sent our people to UL Certification training – a bit like boot camp – and then brought them back and gave them the task of redesigning machinery that we had been producing for years. Designing to UL standards from an electrical point of view is no mean feat, requiring many hours of design, sourcing compliant materials, changing and modifying current manufacturing procedures, and then building to compliance.
We at Spida recognize that our customer’s confidence in their new Truss, Frame, and Floor Manufacturing plant is paramount. We are pleased to provide their new and innovative machinery that complies with UL 508A. They have machinery that is fit for purpose and complies with their local standards, and there will be no surprises when an inspector comes to survey the site.
If you would like to see more information on the introduction of Spida’s UL rated machinery, check out our video, Spida is Proud to Add UL Listed Mark to Electrical Panels! (youtube.com). Or, simply talk to our Account Managers to learn more.