INDUSTRIAL FIT FOR THE FUTURE
ITSME ES ELEKTRO – MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL SUPPLIER FOR INDUSTRY – GEARS UP FOR THE FUTURE ES Elektro Romania, one of the companies that make up the ITSME group of companies, is among the fastest growing electrical and mechanical suppliers in Romania. The Dutch based group, active in 5 European countries, will further develop its position as market leading value added reseller/ distributor. Growth, not just in volume but also in services offered to industry, is directed fully towards new developments in the digital age. Centralized services, digitization, robotics, internet of things, network security and a host of other developments and issues in industry is where the itsme group is focussing on. Investments in systems, attracting new people with specific competences and skills and continuous training of the more than 550 staff are pillars of the new corporate program ‘fit for the future’. Romania plays an important role in the group’s ambitions, as a growth market and as an service outsourcing location.
ES Elektro Romania has offered from its start on the Romanian market its value adding services. These services in logistic solutions, lighting technology and industrial automation complemented the vast range of products from hundreds of brands that the company offers to the industrial market as distributor/reseller. Over the years since ES Elektro Romania’s start in 2009, the company has grown to a €12 million business with 33 employees. “We have been steadily developing our services and products offered on the Romanian market. We now have the same service level as the other itsme companies in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Spain”, says Rolf de Graaf, managing director and administrator of the company. The companies in the group have almost daily contact with each other. “For instance in the field of industrial automation, we have different technical consultants with different specific expertise, knowledge and competences in different countries. Not only do they consult each other internally, if required, consultants operate crossborder and help clients together with the local team in another country. Central in our philosophy is to help the client, whether it is in projects, automation training of their staff or consultancy. Hence our slogan “making you succeed”, explains Rolf de Graaf. This ‘modus operandi’ – way of working – applies to all services the group offers to its 7,000+ industrial customers and is part of the company’s DNA. 98
Rolf de Graaf, managing director and administrator ES Elektro Romania
The future has arrived The 7,000+ industrial customers of the itsme group have one thing in common. They are all looking into the possibilities new technologies offer. Interconnectivity, internet of things, mechatronics, robotics, virtual and augmented reality and many more ‘hot topics’. More efficient and transparent production processes, cost saving, output improvement, less failures or fall-out, a complete different approach and opportunity to spare part
management, predictive and preventive maintenance’, and many more topics. “Most of our clients can be found in the OEM (machine making) industry, panel building and end users industry. And that is exactly where these new technologies have the most impact”, according to de Graaf. “The challenge for all involved is that nobody knows exactly what impact these technological developments are having on industry, on company’s competitiveness, on every step from the engineering process to the final product. And then I am not even talking about the impact on the WWW.TRANSILVANIABUSINESS.RO