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Experience – AX plastic enclosures from Rittal

Keeping tunnels lit in an emergency

Speeding into a tunnel at 300 km/h in an ICE (InterCity Express) train is always an experience. Even though the train is well sealed, you can still feel the pressure wave. A tunnel’s safety technology needs to withstand huge stresses, as does the equipment powering the emergency lighting. In the event of a power failure, this equipment ensures the emergency lighting operates reliably so that rescue teams and escaping passengers can find their way. The demands on the enclosures used are high. Safety technology manufacturers such as HERMOS Systems must also be able to provide proof of this reliability with appropriate certificates.

Experience – Building a new data centre

When the best solution is a standard one

When companies are planning and building new data centres, the crucial question is whether a customised design planned from scratch or a standardised solution is better. Elbe Kliniken Stade-Buxtehude GmbH chose a standardised solution for good reason – and saved a huge amount of time and money in the process.

Innovation – Digitalisation enabler

Data needs space

The industrial foundations of Europe’s economy have rarely been hit by so many changes at the same time. Industry is in upheaval – and not just in terms of technology. How can it handle the pressure to become more efficient and productive, while at the same time mastering the energy transition? How can it get to grips with the skills shortage and at the same time – or even because of that – implement digital transformation?

Experience – Engineering Control panel design and production at Siemens WKC

It’s all about the digital twin

You don’t need a crystal ball to see into the (near) future of panel building and switchgear manufacturing. All you need to do is visit the Siemens Systems Engineering Plant (WKC) in Chemnitz. Each year, the WKC builds around 21,000 control panels and approximately 29,000 small enclosures (predominantly on a batch-size-1 basis), making it one of Europe’s market leaders. The plant is largely digitalised throughout, all the way from processing customer data to delivering the control panels. In this article, Hans-Peter Kasparick and Mirko Löffler, who are responsible for digital strategy and manufacturing engineering, provide an insight into their processes and collaboration with Rittal and Eplan.

Teamwork – Society Rittal Foundation

Using a robot in biology lessons

Fiona has cancer. That’s why a little white robot is now going to school for her every day. The 15-year-old can use her tablet to connect to the so-called ‘telepresence avatar’ from the hospital or at home, and so take part in lessons and even talk to her friends. This has been made possible by a donation from the Rittal Foundation.

Experience – AX enclosures for intelligent distribution substations

600,000 opportunities for the energy transition

The future of the energy (transition) is smart: Only a smart grid can guarantee the stability of the increasingly decentralised energy systems. However, the backbone of a successful energy transition is a robust electricity grid. Rittal offers the system solutions required to shape the transformation of energy supply, especially for the Energy & Power sector.

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Pit stop for 16 TB of data

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Twin by twin

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Revolutionising steel production

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Green computing power at the fjord

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Even more scope

Experience – Capturing complete building data using laser scanning

Home smart home

Enercon GmbH is Germany’s biggest manufacturer of wind turbines. The company uses cloud-based infrastructure on the Eplan Platform to design its electrical engineering equipment – making it one of the first users of such infrastructure anywhere in the world. This infrastructure facilitates cross-site, multi-user engineering and even helps attract new skilled workers. When it comes to automating the assembly of its own enclosures, Enercon puts its trust in solutions from Rittal and Rittal Automation Systems.

Innovation – Eplan Platform 2024

Better project planning made simple

Today’s engineering software must guarantee holistic solutions and end-to-end data flows, and that’s exactly what you get with the tried-and-tested Eplan engineering platform. ­Available since September, the next generation offers new mathematical calculation functions, easier terminal management, unprecedented possibilities for navigating through the 3D model of the enclosure and simpler machine cabling.

Innovation – Machine cabeling

Planning instead of guesswork

Every electrical engineering project requires a project template. Design engineers mostly develop this themselves, which can be a time-consuming and error-prone process. Wouldn’t it be better to use predefined standards? Yes, says Tom Wolff, Head of Eplan Engineering Standard, in an interview with the German trade magazine “Konstruktionspraxis”. The ultimate aim is to be able to select and download a project and then simply get started!

Innovation – Eplan Smart Mounting

A complete overview

The 2024 version of Eplan Smart Mounting makes manufacturing enclosures even simpler. The new dashboards now give production managers an overview of all orders so they can make the best possible use of their resources. The software also guides production staff step by step through the assembly of rails, cable ducts and electrical engineering components. Precise visualisation of the wiring is possible, too, thanks to Eplan Smart Wiring.

Teledoor

Cool configuration

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The power of energy

News around the world

Experience – Expansion of partner programme

Experiencing and implementing digitalisation

Experience – Enercon

Engineering in the cloud

Experience – Eplan Engineering Standard

The standard gives you wings

Innovation – New Rittal fan-and-filter units

From fan to security guide

Fan-and-filter units are the most commonly used climate control solution. They offer a cost-effective alternative to cooling units in all sorts of scenarios where the ambient air can be used to regulate the temperature in the enclosure. Despite this, however, many customers don’t see them as innovative products that offer added value. We caught up with Claudia Christine Ronzheimer, Product Manager ­Cooling Technologies at Rittal, to talk about small, smart innovations that have a big impact – and we introduce the new generation of fan-and-filter units.

Innovation – Eplan Nationales Automuseum

Passion on wheels

The opening of the Nationales Automuseum has made waves.

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Engineering in the cloud - Interview with Andree Rülander, Head of Electrical Design, Enercon

Keeping tunnels lit in an emergency - Interview with Robert Berndt, HERMOS Authorised Representative and Project Leader

When the best solution is a standard onecentre - Interview with Dr Armin Ortlam, Head of IT Strategy KHZG Controlling (KHZG = Federal Hospital Future Act)

Cool when the heat is on - Interview with Björn von Frieling

Caution - supply bottleneck! - Interview with Mark Antonius Behler from BEUMER

Caution - supply bottleneck! - Interview with Reinhard H. Agnesens from Blumenbecker

Sustainable enclosure cooling with the most efficient cooling unit series in the world

Automated driving - IT infrastructure for BMW vehicle tests

Energy in a box

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New IT infrastructure at tyre manufacturing company

Failsafe

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Industrial partnerships, such as the one between thyssenkrupp Steel, Andritz, Stahlo and Rittal, give rise to intelligent, innovative processes

Eco system in focus

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Regulation / refrigerants

New rules of play for global product

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LKH & Kaco

Seeing the big picture

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