In
Mirandola, in that hi-tech district north of Modena, there is a company that
has become a reference in the sector of automation of aerial platforms and
cranes. Diasteca is also specialised in the design and construction of
electrical and electronic automation systems with software and hardware
development. Giampaolo Colletti interviews Paolo Steffanini, General Manager
and Technical Director of Diasteca, for FARE INSIEME
by Giampaolo Colletti
@gpcolletti
Photocredit: Giacomo Maestri e Francesca Aufiero
There are
entrepreneurial stories that originate in the past but are projected into the
future, living the present as best as possible. Stories that put advanced,
visionary, concrete technologies into play. And who then - alongside these tech
solutions - deploy trained, competent, and resilient professionals. This is the
story of Diasteca, born in 1992 in Mirandola, specialised in the design and
construction of electrical, electronic and hydraulic automation systems. These
are proposals that also involve software and hardware development. The company
has 50 employees and a turnover of 10 million euros. It all began in the years
that marked the exponential growth of technological solutions, the dawn of a
revolution that would redesign the way companies work. Technologies yes, but at
the basis of everything there are people. «The secret to working at your best?
Take some risks and work on the trust and empathy of your collaborators. The
success is based on the extreme trust and on the response of the collaborators
within and without the company, which have allowed us to grow and develop over
all these years», says Paolo Steffanini, General Manager and Technical
Director, proudly.
Company
profile. Machines, processes, rules. But then there is the flexibility to
design tailor-made solutions for its customers because Diasteca was born as an
installer company and grew in the construction of equipment and in the
integration of an electronics department, with hardware and software
development. Today it is also involved in the hydraulic sector. All this having
introduced an internal research and development department, which means the
future. Thinking big and thinking together, this is the winning recipe that
links technologies and people that literally makes the difference. «No business
can grow without taking risks. This visionary approach, made of awareness and
intelligence, has always rewarded us. In a historical moment like the current
one, in which it is difficult to find raw materials, producing electronic
boards independently helps us not to slow down the activity», specifies
Steffanini. And that vision that sees people in the field before technologies.
On the other hand, to scale the markets one must always start from human
capital. Diasteca
will go down
in history, from three people in a team to then become almost twenty times that
size in just a few years. «Without people and therefore without human capital,
companies do not grow. Just as you cannot grow if you do not have the courage
to take some business risks, to invest in digitalisation, to expand the
customer base and the market», says Steffanini.
A future
already present. To look beyond. Thus, research presents new frontiers in
products, services and solutions for customers. The company has designed
innovative models to be made available to machinery manufacturers: remote
control for remote assistance and interventions on all the parameters of the
board, thanks to the IoT system, i.e. the Internet of Things. This is the
network of physical objects that have the technology to detect and transmit
information about the state of the machine and interact with it. The advantages
of the IoT Diasteca are various: remote analysis and intervention of the
operation, scheduled maintenance, remote updating of the software on the
machine, geolocalisation, reduction of technical assistance costs. Thus, that
courage, which simplifies the work, to write new pages of the future.
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