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A complete range of services, from routine maintenance to major equipment refurbishments, all aimed at extending the service life of your installations.

Our aim: to guarantee your equipment’s reliability and performance by minimizing downtime and maximizing operational efficiency.

Merlin Gerin products services

With our heritage as a Merlin Gerin manufacturer, we have the know-how, expertise and industrial capabilities to assist you throughout the lifecycle of your equipment from our installed base.

Spare parts

Merlin Gerin products services

As an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) we can meet all the exact specifications for all your equipment, whether it is for routine maintenance or to build up your stock of strategic spare parts.

  • Technical database sheets of over 500,000 components
  • Stock of over 10,500 spare part references
  • Technical skill and advice to match the generation of equipment concerned
  • + 10,000 spare parts supplied per year

Workshop maintenance

Merlin Gerin products services

We carry out all types of manufacturer maintenance on conventional circuit breakers and disconnector switches, both old and new generation, as well as on Gas Insulated Switchgear (GIS) sub-units.

  • + 10,000 m2 of production workshops
  • In-depth preliminary expertise of equipment
  • Level 1 to 5 maintenance

Maintenance on customer site

Merlin Gerin products services

Our teams carry out preventive, corrective and remedial maintenance on installations, in compliance with safety regulations.

We intervene on conventional circuit breakers and Gas Insulated Switchgear (GIS).

  • + 100 field employees
  • Available via a network of agencies in France and subsidiaries overseas
  • A wide range of specific tools: gas treatment equipment, dielectric testing equipment…

Refurbishment and retrofitting

Merlin Gerin products services

We have developed a range of refurbishing and retrofitting solutions.

These modernizations help to combat the obsolescence of existing installations, whilst adjusting to the management constraints of electricity grids.

  • Improve operating comfort and flexibility
  • Extend equipment’s service life

Multi-brand product services

Thanks to our network of agencies across the country and our international subsidiaries, we are available to intervene on site and maintain your equipment.

We maintain and repair all the components of an electrical substation (circuit breakers, disconnectors switches, transformers, HV cells, cables, control system, main switchboard, inverters, etc.) directly on your site, guaranteeing the safety and efficiency of your installations.

Preventive, corrective or remedial maintenance on installations

Multi-brand product services

We implement the operating procedures recommended by the original manufacturer, enriched by the experience of our technical teams, either on a one-off basis or as part of a maintenance contract.

  • Audits and preliminary diagnostics
  • Preventive and corrective maintenance levels 1 to 4
  • COMEM-approved distributor of transformer spare parts

Equipment replacement

Multi-brand product services

Our multi-brand experts can replace all types of existing equipment, adapting to your operating constraints and keeping interventions to what is essential.

With the aim of encouraging reuse and limiting the use of raw materials, depending on the project, we can offer you different solutions.

  • Replacement with new equipment
  • Replacement with second-hand equipment that has first been tested and inspected

Our commitments

Installation and commissioning

Multi-brand product services

Our broad range of expertise guarantees you full support from the feasibility study through to the installation and commissioning of your equipment, either independently or in partnership with the manufacturer.

  • Removal and installation of new equipment
  • Testing and recommissioning

 

Monitoring

Multi-brand product services

By collecting data transmitted by connected sensors installed on the equipment, we can optimize the maintenance of high-voltage substations.

Our monitoring, connectivity and control solutions provide reliable, real-time monitoring of the installations to encourage predictive maintenance and guarantee your equipment’s availability.

  • Diagnosis of installation operation
  • Defect monitoring and prevention
  • Control of predictive maintenance
  • Reliability and availability of your assets