ZPA Industry

The year 2020 brought a fundamental change, as they merged with our company. At the beginning of the year, we started a strategic cooperation. With the purchase of the plant on 1. 8. 2020, this merger gave rise to a strong engineering team capable of implementing industrial automation projects in the Czech Republic, where ZPA Industry has a large proportion of its customers, as well as abroad.

“We have done a lot of work connected with the integration of key processes in the field of business, purchase and project management and the centralization of supportive processes such as human resources, finance, education, etc. We also continuously unify technical standards and share implementation teams to pass on the know-how gained from projects for prior periods. Of course, Covid affected the integration. Possibilities for personal meetings and joint work are limited. This hinders us in the current effort to share the experience and best practice of everyday work as intensively as possible," says Pavel Komzák, Sales Director.

“We are currently looking for designers, PLC programmers, servicing technicians and project managers to fill senior positions. We are looking for new colleagues that are enthusiastic about technologies and engineering and with an urge to improve continuously. Our projects are varied and from the technical point of view they are always challenging.  The Project Department uses primarily the EPLAN platform and to a lesser extent also CAD systems. The Software Department offers variability and broad range of various development tools and platforms across the entire company. We use primarily GE/Emerson and Siemens platform in our subsidiary in Karlovy Vary,” says Erik Rus, business leader from the ZPA Industry subsidiary.

In our subsidiary in Karlovy Vary there are three implementation teams. The service where we provide servicing support to big end customers in Bohemia, processing automation that takes care of customers in power engineering, petrochemical industry, chemistry and the team of robotics and production of machinery and lines. All departments will be expanded. Implementation from the technical point of view and strategy of the team further development is now one of the priorities of technical director Vojtěch Včela.

“Technical leaders from other subsidiaries now have to stand in for senior engineering experts. Personal redeployments with the aim to boost the team professionally are also in progress. We are looking for senior specialists in the region with the potential to take charge of the role. We can offer them the strong company environment and an opportunity to become part of the community of professionals that cooperate and help one another,” says Vojtěch Včela.

Uniting personal systems and the working method with the engineering team is one of the chief priorities of integration. We focus not only on development support but also on smooth functioning during the implementation and on supporting our colleagues on business trips in the Czech Republic and abroad. The system is now applied to the management of our subsidiary in Karlovy Vary.

“Whenever a problem arises during a business trip or at a site, there is the team of people for whom the support of their colleagues on business trips is a priority. There is also non-stop HOTLINE at disposal with our colleagues on the line. They help us solve problems with flights, payments, loss of documents or equipment,” says Petra Žemličková, leader of the specialists.