Automation at Ouneva Group

The automation department of Ouneva Group talked with us about the importance of automation both inside the organisation and from our customers point of view. Our automation department designs and implements projects across the entire Group that improve cost efficiency, wellbeing at work and production quality.

Background of our automation departmentThe members of the department have strong experience across many areas of automation. Some of that experience reaches back more than thirty years. Petri Majoinen, who leads the automation department and works as a project manager, has worked in automation throughout his entire career. The department’s expertise focuses especially on electrical design along with other design and installation roles. Good planning carries a project far and skilled installation and programming bring the final results to life.

What kind of roles form the department?

Petri leads the automation department. In addition to Petri, the department includes several designers in both electrical and mechanical areas. There are also several team members with programming and installation skills. The installation technicians keep both tools and projects firmly in hand. Petri praises the strong team spirit in the department. Work is carried out together and the best solutions are created together. Even though the entire team has extensive experience with different technologies, the excitement for learning and trying new things is clear in every discussion. Technology evolves and we evolve with it.

Our customers and our Group have a growing awareness and interest in automation solutions, which keeps our automation team busy. The modernisation of the factory environment is visible especially through the increasing number of complex automation cells. Production quality has become more consistent thanks to machine level repeatability. Efficiency has grown together with wellbeing at work. When our employees need to perform fewer repetitive movements and tasks, we can better support long-term musculoskeletal health.
For customers, increased automation strengthens global competitiveness, improves efficiency and enables tailored solutions that are specific to each customer. This competitiveness is not only for our customers. It benefits us as well. We grow internationally together with our customers.

Automation solutions for medical production are always created in close cooperation with the customer. Project management becomes familiar with the customers requirements already in the earliest discussions. These requirements have a major impact on the design phase. The special needs of cleanroom production, such as strict material and cleanliness requirements, are well known to our automation team and receive dedicated attention.

Precision is essential in the production of our Group. For this reason, the variety of automation solutions and the ability to apply them become especially important when working with a broad technology selection. Profitability and production volume are key questions when planning automation solutions because automation always requires an investment. With sufficiently large volumes, the solution becomes competitive, especially in international markets.
Learning new things and experimenting play a big role in a large industrial Group. Our team gains experience from many kinds of production environments. However, close collaboration with the customer stands out as the most important factor when choosing the right solution. Genuine cooperation with our customers is central to our Group and we are proud of it. With a good partner, everything becomes possible.