Primary Recommendation

Servelec - Fast growth from automation division

April 2014

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Chief executive, Alan Stubbs, likes to describe Servelec as the infrastructure company nobody has ever heard of The business is a specialist in telemetry and SCADA (supervisory control and data acquisition) systems that collect real-time information for organisations and are the kinds of system you would use to run distributed industrial plants, such as pipelines, electricity distribution and on offshore oil platforms. Such systems enable operators in a central control room to monitor and control machines or to react to situations even though a machine may be hundreds of miles away. The company uses these systems, for instance, to manage Heathrow airports landing lighting and fire hydrant systems (by all accounts it is used all ...

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