Schmersal Group Restructures Service Division

Range of safety services expanded

submitted by Schmersal Group

K.A. Schmersal GmbH & Co. KG (Schmersal Group), headquartered in Wuppertal, Germany, has restructured its service business, which is expected to result in great development potential in light of growing demand. The range of safety services offered by tec.nicum will be significantly expanded, particularly in digitalization and complete solutions for machine safety. Global activities and expertise will be more closely integrated. tec.nicum, the safety services program supported by TÜV Rheinland-certified engineers, was established on April 8 as a new subsidiary that also incorporates omnicon engineering GmbH, which Schmersal acquired in 2019. The new company is based in Kirkel-Limbach in Saarland, Southwest Germany. Bruno Ricardo Diniz, who previously led tec.nicum’s business in Latin America, is heading the newly founded company and is also head of tec.nicum globally. The European business of tec.nicum — Solutions & Services GmbH will be supported by Enildo Caetano dos Santos as business development manager. The German team will be led by Carsten Doll as site manager in Kirkel and Tobias Keller as sales manager.

Diniz said:

“On the one hand, our customers will benefit from our technical expertise, safety knowledge and application experience, all integrated in a global process that takes advantage of emerging technologies such as lidar (light detection and ranging remote-sensing method), augmented reality and digitalization. For example, to support customers in the Americas, we will draw on the expertise of Brazilian engineers, while in Europe the new company will provide support. In Asia, we will draw on the expertise of the Indian team. On the other hand, we will significantly expand our portfolio of safety services and lead the company into new opportunities that it has not yet explored.”

The four pillars on which tec.nicum’s offering has been built to date — knowledge transfer, consulting, technical planning and execution — will be supplemented by two more:

1. Digitalization: tec.nicum is increasingly offering newly developed software solutions such as a new tool for carrying out risk assessments, as well as new digital technologies such as cloud solutions, Industrial Internet of Things applications, digitalized lock out/tag out procedures and energy-management tools.
2. Outsourcing: tec.nicum offers companies the opportunity to completely outsource all tasks related to machine safety, from the planning and installation of control cabinets to the design of holistic safety solutions. tec.nicum provides the user with ready-to-connect, plug-and-play solutions.

tec.nicum has 162 workers worldwide, including safety experts, technicians and engineers. As the service offering expands and the tec.nicum organization grows, the number of employees will increase significantly to be able to handle anticipated demand.