Its Activity.

The activity of the center of Amiens is the design, the manufacture and the assembly of products of control and regulation industrialists and transmitters of ground (see 4°/Its products; following page). They are intended to improve the productivity and to optimize the use of the raw materials for a better competitiveness. The factory has also an activity of distribution (products of trade).

The center does not have sales department interns since the direct customers of the factory are the Honeywell subsidiary companies, mainly European. The center of Amiens does not treat an order with the final customers, it must call upon its subsidiary companies.

Its principal customers are:

 tankers: Shell, Elf, Total, Texaco, Repsol…
 automobile manufacturers and equipment suppliers: Renault, PSA, Citroen, Valéo, Good Year…
 industrialists of the agroalimentary one: Bonduelle, Nestle, Tétra-pack, manufacturers of baker's ovens…
 chemical industries and para chemical: Dupont de Nemours, Procter & Gamble…
 industries of glass, ceramics, the iron and steel industry, the heat treatments.

The principal competitors are:

 Eurotherm (Chessel) in Great Britain
 Yokogawa in Japan
 Hartmann & Braun and Siemens in Germany
 Fisher-Rosemount in the United States.

Its suppliers:

The suppliers are selected according to required know-how's. They are French, European or world. They are evaluated compared to their quality system and their service rate (price, reliability of the deadlines, flexibility…). Their implication is important at the beginning of the development of the new products. The whole of the subcontractors was approved and an evaluation of the quality of the services and products delivered make it possible to preserve this homologation (necessary to belong to the suppliers of Amiens).