Follow every panel from single-line diagram to routine test report.

A switchboard maker takes sheet steel, copper bar and bought-in breakers, and hands over a lineup of panels that a client’s consultant has already approved on paper. The drawing revision decides what gets built. That is the rule. One late change to a feeder can alter the breaker, the busbar rating and the nameplate. It happens often.

Order tracking for switchgear works feeder by feeder. It keeps the approved single-line diagram beside the bill of materials, the shop floor stages and the routine test result. A panel order from your last quarter makes a good first trial.

The estimator prices an enquiry from a single-line diagram and a feeder list: incomers, bus couplers, outgoing feeders, metering and capacitor sections. Breakers, relays and instrument transformers are bought in, so their delivery dates set the real schedule. Frames wait. After the order, the design team issues a general arrangement drawing, and the client’s consultant returns it with comments, sometimes twice.

On the floor, sheet metal is cut, punched and bent into frames. Copper busbar is cut, bent and often plated outside. Panels are powder coated, wired, fitted with breakers and tested. Then comes the paperwork. A routine test covers insulation, wiring check and functional operation. Some clients send an inspector to witness the test, and the maker must then hold the lineup, the paperwork and the nameplates ready until that visit is done and signed.