AB Power Systems Ltd was founded in 1990 by Brian Holohan and Aileen Dunne. Prior to this Brian was employed by the multinational Chloride from 1982 as a Divisional Manager, with responsibility for Standby Power System sales in Ireland.
Initially, the business was focused on distribution, installation and servicing of Standby Power Battery Systems - primarily into the Telecommunications, Power Generation and Emergency Lighting industries. Standby Power Battery Systems are installed to control and protect mission critical equipment from the adverse effects of a power supply failure. Think what would happen if a Generating Station shut down, the lights in a Hospital Operating Theatre went out or the nightmare of your house wi-fi collapsing.
Our equipment prevents these situations from occurring. Our motto is “BATTERY POWER YOU CAN DEPEND ON”. The whole world operates 24/7 and cannot tolerate any interruption to its power supply. We expect our many electrical systems to work and when they don’t it can result in loss of life, ecological disasters or financial loss. We like to think we do our bit to make the world a safer place.
Beginning in the early 90’s we could see an opportunity to develop a design and manufacturing facility to support our customers with a more bespoke service. Starting off slowly we developed a range of DC Power Systems suitable for the growing Telecommunications industry - which was now opening to new providers, particularly in the Mobile sector. All the while we were still distributing the Chloride (Now Enersys) range of Standby Power Batteries and still do today.
By 1996 we had outgrown our rented facility in Dublin 8 and decided to buy a new Industrial Unit in Dublin 12, we still operate from there today, albeit with several improvements and additions over the years and we have almost doubled the original floor space. We have been ISO 9001 registered since 1999.
From 2000 onwards we continued to grow our Design and Manufacturing facilities adding computerisation in the form of AUTOCAD and an in-house devised program called Tracker to further develop and streamline our business processes. Today we design and manufacture over 90% of the product we sell. From the start we have always had excellent relationships with our key Suppliers, many of them Multinationals and this continues to this day.
We spend time understanding our customers' needs and will always strive for nothing short of 100% satisfaction, even on the occasion when things don’t do to plan, we will keep working until a solution is found. This attitude has resulted in most of our business coming from repeat customers and word of mouth.
From the mid 2000’s we could see that the developments in the Telecommunications industry were causing a shift away from the need for DC Power Systems - there would always be some business there but not as before. To counteract this, we turned our attention to other industries with a DC Power requirement. We had always been very active in the Power Generation industry (ESB) and with the growing global interest in Renewable Energy and the introduction of Wind Farms which were to be built in the main by private companies, many of them from overseas, we found ourselves ideally placed to offer these companies a local one stop shop for all their DC Power requirements.
These requirements include: Battery Chargers, Batteries, Control Panels etc - all of which except for the batteries could be designed and manufactured by us in Dublin, delivered to site and installed and commissioned if required. Today the Renewable Energy industry has grown to include Solar Farms and Battery Storage Plants - both of which we also supply product into. We are also sending product overseas for some of our Irish Customers with business interests outside of Ireland.
2020 brought COVID-19 and everything changed. We, as essential suppliers, continued to operate without interruption but of course with all the necessary health and safety precautions in place. Now that we have come out the other side, we find that our way of doing business needed to adapt to reflect the changing attitude to work/life balance, the difficulty in recruiting staff necessary to grow our business and supply chain issues. We are still extremely busy with orders that show no sign of dropping off in the foreseeable future and we must be able to supply on time and maintain quality.
We appointed an Operations Manager in 2021 to further enhance our business and we continually engage with our staff and take on board their suggestions on how we should navigate in these challenging times. One change made recently is a streamlining of our production process and a reorganisation of our workshop area, and this has included the installation of a new Mezzanine floor. We have also delegated a member of our Administration Team to liaise with our various suppliers on a constant basis to ensure timely delivery of components vital to our production schedule.
We also support staff with extra training and education, and we will shortly commence the process to gain ISO 14001 certification in Environment Management. Going forward we will continue to expand our business and support our Customers and staff.
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