Chauvin Arnoux: more than a century of history
Manufacturing and Production
With its eight factories, including four in France, the Chauvin Arnoux Group is proud to design and manufacture the spare parts and tools needed to produce its sensors and measuring instruments. Our production teams constantly strive to control manufacturing costs and limit the number of intermediaries, while ensuring traceability and quality.
Jobs on the Group's production sites:
- screen printing, manufacture of printed circuit boards
- wiring of electronic boards, SMDs and discrete components
- tooling manufacture
- turning, milling, bar turning
- die-stamping, sheet-metal work, steel-plate work
- injection moulding of plastic parts
- surface treatments
- mounting, assembly, inspection
- functions linked to production of spare parts and finished products
Research and Development
Chauvin Arnoux, the leading French designer and manufacturer of measuring instruments, continues to build on its tradition of expertise based on innovation and implementation of the latest technological advances. Our 6 Research and Development centres worldwide are proud to be able to launch more than 35 new products on the market every year! The Chauvin Arnoux Group devotes 11% of its revenues to R&D each year while also filing tens of patents.
Jobs in the Group's laboratories and R&D units:
- hardware technicians and engineers
- firmware technicians and engineers
- CAD draughtsmen/women and designers
- engineering manager
- laboratory manager
- engineering dept. manager
Marketing
The purpose of marketing is to enable a product to meet its market and its target customers. The marketing for the various divisions in the Chauvin Arnoux Group is handled by Product Managers.
A Product Manager is responsible for one or more product ranges and provides:
- market research studies
- the specifications for new products
- monitoring of design and development with R&D and outside service providers
- commercialization (advertising, pricing, promotion, distribution)
- follow-up of the product life cycle
He/she provides training to the sales teams for new products (specific technical features, sales pitch) and occasionally visits customers with the sales forces.
Typical profile of a Product Manager:
- Engineer or equivalent in Electronics, Electrical Engineering or Physical Measurements
- Training or experience in marketing and sales techniques
- Fluent in English
- Good relational skills and ability to listen
Sales and Export
The Chauvin Arnoux Group supports its development through well-trained Sales Forces with a strong presence in the field. They explain the competitive advantages of the equipment, sensors and measuring instruments from our various brands to expert channels, distributors and end-users.
The Customer Relations Contacts (CRCs) take customers' telephone calls, define their requirements, draft the offers and manage the orders in liaison with the Sales Engineer and the Distribution Sales Representative.
A Sales Engineer is responsible for developing activity in a specific geographical zone. He/she analyses the customer's requirements and proposes the most technically-appropriate solutions. He/she provides the distribution network with training for new products. He/she reports customers' new requirements and suggestions to the Marketing Department.
Export Sales Engineers propose a global offering to customers: products, after-sales service, shipment and distribution sales strategy.
The Distribution Sales Representative handles placement and promotion of the products in the agencies of our Electrical Equipment partner-distributors in France.
Possibility of promotion to become a Sector Manager, Zone Manager, Sales Manager or Sales Director
After-Sales and Services
MANUMESURE is the Chauvin Arnoux Group company which provides services in France. Via its 17 Technical Centres and metrology laboratories spread across the whole of France, with 120 engineers and qualified technicians, MANUMESURE offers industrial companies and institutions a comprehensive range of services
- calibration for all brands, in the laboratory or on site
- management of measuring instrument fleets
- maintenance and repairs
- regulatory testing and verifications: nuclear, medical, atmospheric waste emissions, EMC, etc.
Jobs proposed:
- Maintenance technicians, experienced or beginners
- Metrological technicians
- Pollution test technicians
- Agency managers
Profiles sought:
- BTS/DUT/ higher technical diploma in Electronics, Electrotechnics, Electrical Engineering, Physical Measurements
- Experienced or beginners
- Good relational skills, sense of service
Support Functions
To keep a international industrial group like Chauvin Arnoux running, a large number of other resources are required, in addition to design, manufacturing, product commercialization and provision of services.
Some of these resources are outsourced, but others are provided in-house.
Departments with occasional job openings:
- Human Resources
- Accounting
- Purchasing and Procurement
- Communication
- IT
- General Services
Mapping
Temperature mapping of climatic chambers, furnaces, ovens, etc.
MANUMESURE has COFRAC “Tests” accreditation for temperature mapping
from - 80 °C to + 400 °C
Accreditation no. 1.1623
Scope available at www.cofrac.fr
Six Manumesure technical centres (*) are available to perform these characterizations on site for industrial companies, laboratories, hospitals and manufacturers of furnaces, ovens, freezers, etc.
(*) Technical centres in Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Paris, Pont-L'Evêque & Strasbourg (France)
Characterizations can be performed according to the French NF X 15-140 reference document or the European NF EN 600068 reference document, as required.
Methodology
Measurements by comparison with standard probes:
- at 9 points for chambers smaller than 2 m3
- at 15 points for volumes larger than 2 m3
Simulation of door opening-closing shows the reaction time of the chamber.
A “verification report” groups the measurement results, the calculation of the uncertainties, the setpoint deviation and the homogeneity and stability of the chamber.
Maintenance & Repairs
Manumesure carries out repairs and maintenance of all brands of instruments
Ever since it was first set up, Manumesure has provided after-sales service for instruments from the Chauvin Arnoux Group's brands.
Drawing on this experience, Manumesure has also specialized in repairing instruments from any manufacturer and proposes industrial maintenance of measuring systems.
Our engineers and technicians are specially trained and can work on customers' sites for industrial maintenance, or repair electrical and electronic instruments in our 12 technical centres spread across France.
Our expertise
Manumesure's expertise is guaranteed by dedicated human and technical resources, computerization and traceability of the diagrams, centralized management of replacement parts and metrological traceability to the national standards.
Low-Voltage Directive
If the safety test report and EMC test report are satisfactory, they enable approval of the CE label on the device
There are 2 parts to the LVD: EMC and electrical safety
Electrical safety is covered by directive 2006/95/CE issued by the European Parliament and the Council on 12th December 2006. It concerns electrical devices intended for use in the following voltage conditions:
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- between 50 V and 1,000 V for alternating current
- between 75 V and 1,500 V for direct current
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Applicable standards:
- NF EN 61010-1. Concerns electrical measuring, control and laboratory devices. General requirements.
- NF EN 61010-2-030. Specific requirements for test and measurement circuits.
- IEC 61010-031. Safety instructions for equipped handheld probes for electrical measurements and tests.
- IEC 61010-2-032. Specific requirements for portable and handheld current sensors for electrical tests and measurements.
- IEC 61010-2-033. Specific requirements for portable multimeters and other measuring devices for domestic and professional use which are capable of measuring the network voltage.
The safety assessment of a device is performed jointly by several people (engineering teams) while taking into account the data concerning the design of the device. In short, the safety test report is a summary of a device's design.
