The magazine of Friedhelm Loh Group
The magazine of Friedhelm Loh Group
Nerves of steel – that’s what equipment manufacturers need more than anything right now, because the coronavirus pandemic has thrown suppliers and logistics chains across the globe into disarray. Global supply bottlenecks are stalling production processes and preventing entire installations from being delivered on time. How does a company such as ATR Industrie-Elektronik GmbH deal with this situation, and what steps is Rittal taking to maintain full delivery reliability during this difficult period?
Training refugees is an opportunity for everyone – the refugees can learn a trade and find a new home, while companies acquire new talent and increase their diversity. In this article, staff from Afghanistan, Syria and Eritrea, and their colleagues and supervisors from the Friedhelm Loh Group, talk about how we can do this together and what makes it worthwhile.
“The order books are full, but the shortage of materials is stopping companies ramping up their production accordingly,” explains Klaus Wohlrabe, Head of Surveys at the Ifo Center for Macroeconomics and Surveys. This is especially true of the plastics industry. Thanks to its rigorously tested procedures for substituting materials, LKH opens up new ways out of the procurement crisis. Supply chains are safeguarded as a result.
Performance and convenience are the bedrock of the automotive industry, with convenience being particularly important in the luxury sector, where power liftgates come as standard, especially on SUVs. As we reveal here, high-performance plastic components from LKH ensure the tech is built to last.
Digitalization is giving a real boost to high performance computing – a sector that needs to be environmentally friendly, too. Providing lots of computer power, using lots of energy for servers and cooling, and staying in harmony with the environment – it’s a Herculean task for companies with ambitious climate targets. Mercedes-Benz Group AG and Infosys are now reconciling these needs by transferring particularly intensive data workloads to the Lefdal Mine Datacenter in Norway, one of the largest and greenest data centres anywhere in the world.
Digital transformation is complex. Not every company has its own software specialists on hand for developing integration projects or data exchange connectors, forexample. Partnerships that work together to produce solutions to boost consistency are invaluable here – such as the Eplan Partner Network with members such as Rockwell Automation, Mitsubishi and Festo. Both the partners and their customers reap the benefits in equal measure.
The Perforex MT milling terminal makes it possible.
Energy in a box
Streamlining processes with Rittal and Eplan solutions
The new stand-alone enclosure.
Whether safely sheltered or in rough environments: Individually configured solutions for IT Containers made to fit into any place.
Man vs. machine – who wins? The LCA Group shows the advantages of using the Perforex
All clean: During replacements of Canada’s largest sewage plant, Metro Vancouver opted for enclosure and power distribution solutions from Eplan.
Precise production of the VX25
Planning and realisation with Eplan Pro Panel and and Perforex BC
How the control and switchgear manufacturer Meurer modernizes its enclsoure construction with Eplan and Rittal solutions.
How the VX25 large enclosure system from Rittal plays to its strengths in the Gotthard Tunnel.
How IT infrastructure fro Rittal secutres procedures at Dubrovnik airport.
Rittal in use in the TecFabrik at Daimler.