Inside the Madinah facility: a tour of TEPCO's 36,000 m² Saudi manufacturing operation.
By TEPCO Editorial Team4 min read2024-08-21
Behind every TEPCO product is a Madinah facility combining CNC sheet-metal forming, automated busbar processing, dielectric and functional testing, and partially automated workflows engineered to lean production principles.
Behind every TEPCO product is a single facility in Madinah, where raw sheet metal becomes a tested, certified distribution assembly under one roof. The tour begins where most switchboards do — at CNC sheet-metal forming that cuts, punches, and bends enclosure parts to tolerances a manual line cannot hold.
From there, automated busbar processing shapes and prepares the copper that carries the board's current, removing a step that is both labour-intensive and error-prone when done by hand. Consistent bends and clean joints are not cosmetic; they determine the thermal and mechanical performance of the finished assembly.
Assembly feeds directly into a test bay, where every unit faces dielectric and functional testing before it ships — proving insulation integrity and confirming that protection, interlocks, and control behave exactly as the drawings specify. Nothing leaves on the strength of a visual check alone.
What ties it together is a partially automated workflow engineered to lean production principles: material moves with purpose, work-in-progress is bounded, and quality is built in at each station rather than inspected in at the end. The result is shorter, more predictable lead times and a product whose consistency comes from the process, not from rework.
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