Switchgear and Relay Panel Enclosures
Ideal Design fabricates LV switchgear enclosures, relay panels and control desks for panel builders, EPC contractors and utilities across the GCC. ISO 9001 process, made in our Ajman factory to your approved drawings, with lead times from 3 weeks out of the UAE.
What exactly do we fabricate for panel builders?
We fabricate the metalwork: switchgear enclosures, relay and protection panel housings, marshalling boxes and control desks, delivered coated and ready for your electrical fit out. Your team keeps the regulated electrical scope while we remove the fabrication bottleneck from your schedule.
The work runs from your approved GA drawings. Frames are folded and welded in jigs, mounting patterns are punched to drawing, and every batch carries QC records. Because cutting, folding, welding and coating share one roof, a full panel set moves from sheet to dispatch without waiting on subcontractors.
Utilities and EPC contractors also come to us for the awkward one offs: replacement doors for legacy panels, retrofit housings and site specific desks where a catalogue product simply does not exist.
Batch ten matches batch one.
Panel building is a schedule business, so our value is predictability. Locked programs, jig controlled welding and serialized QC mean the hundredth enclosure carries the same cutouts, the same squareness and the same finish as the first article you approved.
| Programs | Locked per revision |
| Welding | Jig controlled frames |
| Records | QC per batch, serialized on request |
| Changes | Drawing revision, not renegotiation |
Panel fabrication specifications.
| Attribute | Specification | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | LV switchgear enclosures · relay and protection panels · control desks | Fabricated metalwork, ready for your busbar and gear |
| Built from | Your approved GA drawings | DXF, STEP or PDF accepted, revision controlled |
| Materials | CRCA · GI, 1.5 to 3 mm typical | Stainless available for harsh sites |
| Construction | Folded and welded frames · bolted panels | Jig controlled for repeatability |
| Interfaces | Busbar cutouts · gland plates · earthing studs | Doors glazed or solid, single or double |
| Finish | Powder coat, any RAL | Coated parts pass 1,000+ hours of salt spray (ISO 9227) |
| Quality | ISO 9001 process · QC records per batch | Serialized labels on request |
| Lead time | From 3 weeks out of the UAE | Batch schedules agreed up front |
Built different, and provable.
Panel builders stay with us because delivery dates hold, drawings stay under revision control, and the coating on every panel is proven past 1,000 hours of salt spray.
1,000+ hour salt spray
Every panel runs through RO and DI pretreatment ahead of powder coating. Coated parts pass 1,000+ hours of neutral salt spray testing to ISO 9227, proven in the chamber, not claimed on a datasheet.
One roof, no handoffs
Design, fiber laser cutting, punching, panel bending, welding, coating and assembly all happen in our own 75,000 sq ft UAE factory. One team owns quality from CAD file to packed crate.
A published envelope
We quote against a published capability envelope: sheet sizes, thicknesses and tolerances. See the full manufacturing capabilities we put behind every order.
Serial metalwork, run as a program.
The same program discipline that runs a networking brand's cabinet line, locked tooling, first article approval and batch QC, is what keeps switchgear metalwork identical order after order.
Questions buyers ask us
Do you supply complete switchgear assemblies?
No, and that is deliberate. We fabricate the enclosures, relay panels and control desks that your licensed panel builders and engineers populate with busbar, breakers and protection gear. You keep the electrical scope, we deliver metalwork that fits first time.
Can you build to our existing GA drawings?
Yes, that is the standard route. Send GA and fabrication drawings in DXF, STEP or PDF and our engineers return a DFM review before production. Your drawings stay under revision control, so batch ten matches batch one.
What tolerances do you hold on panel work?
General tolerances follow ISO 2768 mK, with critical dimensions such as busbar and gear mounting patterns held tighter as your drawing demands. Jig controlled welding keeps frames square, and first articles are dimensionally checked before serial release.
What quantities do you handle?
Anything from a single control desk to recurring monthly batches for panel builders. Repeat work runs on locked tooling and programs, which is where fabricating in the UAE beats importing: from 3 weeks out of the UAE, without the shipping lottery.
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Send the GA drawings.
We'll return a DFM review and a batch price within two working days.