Application Engineering: This group of experienced engineers work with our customers prior to the award of the purchase order. These engineers will work with you at the very inception of the project.

They will provide budget cost proposals, conceptual drawings with various equipment arrangements, and even provide assistance with preparation of written specifications.This department also provides formal proposals complete with detailed bills of material and drawings, as required in response to your request for quotation. The proposal will include value-engineering suggestions if applicable.The goal of CP Application Engineering is to offer professional proposals that are technically accurate and cost competitive.

Project Management:
The Project Managers are your main point of contact once an order has been entered at CP. Shortly after you enter an order you will receive a letter from the Project Manager that will provide you the name of the Project Engineer assigned to your job, as well as the Shop Order number and scheduled ship date.

Like the Project Engineer, the Project Manager will work with you personally on all commercial issues such as project scheduling and cost changes. They will provide you up to date information on the project status so that you will not have any last minute “surprises”.

They can provide you with manufacturing status reports as shown in the image to the right.

Manufacturing: CP product assembly as well as metal fabrication and painting are performed in our 100,000+ sq. ft. factory located in North Canton, Ohio. Sheetmetal Fabrication: The fabrication facility not only provides products for CP’s own use, but also provides fabricated products to other direct users in the computer and telecommunication industries. As a result of this customer base, this facility is classified as a Precision Fabrication shop.

All fabricated products generally are required to meet a +/- tolerance of ten thousandths of an inch. This results in enclosure quality that is second to none!

All metal parts, except the structural steel bases for our Power Control Centers are coated with a porcelain type finish of dry powder epoxy which is run though a 425 degree bake oven. The finish is virtually scratch proof and all metal surfaces, even those that you cannot see, are coated to a uniform thickness on the automated powder coat line.

The fabrication facility utilizes state of the art equipment including computer controlled metal forming equipment, turret head punch presses and laser cutting machines.

Circuit Breaker and Component Assembly:
CP designs and manufactures our own line of DC circuit breakers, consisting of the HSNP high speed circuit breaker and the FBK high speed or semi-high speed circuit breaker. CP manufactures a 38Kv, 150Kv BIL circuit breaker, the type HVF. CP also builds Bus Duct and DC Rectifiers for use on mass transit systems and heavy industrial applications.

Switchgear Assembly:
CP manufactures Switchgear using General Electric, Cutler Hammer, Siemens, and ABB circuit breakers ranging from 480 volts up through and including 38,000 volts AC. We manufacture DC Switchgear ranging from 250 volts up through and including 1600 volts.

A unique feature is that CP not only manufactures Switchgear, but also the climatized substation “buildings” that houses the Switchgear, the Power Control Center, or PCC. Most switchgear manufacturers send their switchgear to an independent “house” builder. This not only adds cost, but also lengthens the overall manufacturing cycle. The end user tends to lose overall control of issues such as quality and project coordination. When the equipment is complete, the customer or his consultant only need to visit one facility to inspect and witness the testing of all of the equipment at CP.

All switchgear is built on leveling pads to assure proper alignment. If the equipment will eventually be installed in the customer’s building it will ship directly from the leveling pad to the jobsite. If the switchgear is conventional outdoor construction, or will be mounted in a PCC, the switchgear will then be installed onto the structural steel base of the PCC or outdoor switchgear.