The magazine of Friedhelm Loh Group

The magazine of Friedhelm Loh Group

Innovation – Cooperation

The enclosure testers

VX25. The maiden flight is a make-or-break moment in the aviation industry. Whenever technology is put through its paces for the first time, it’s about the nitty-gritty. It’s about the facts and nothing but the facts. Read a somewhat different “flight report” about the VX25 and the Schaper Group that offers interesting insights for technicians and anyone who has the final say on enclosure technology.

Teamwork – Working environment

Wood Wide Web

Collaboration. Nature shows how it’s done – organised systems are more successful. This also applies to companies in the era of digitization.

Experience – Engineering

Precision second by second

Industry 4.0. Intelligent, efficient and perfectly equipped for the future – to manufacture its new star enclosure, the VX25, Rittal is transforming its Rittershausen plant into a highly networked factory of the future.

Experience – Engineering

Experts wanted

The control and switchgear engineering sector is flourishing and orders are coming in thick and fast – yet the lack of specialists is still a great cause for concern among companies in the industry. Plenge GmbH from the German town of Oelde has concocted a winning recipe.

Experience – Information technology

Smart City Songdo – the city that thinks for itself

It is energy-efficient, intelligent and fully networked: As a smart city, Songdo in South Korea makes the lives of its inhabitants more comfortable and safer. But: What kind of IT infrastructure does such a future city need to have?

Innovation – Rittal

6 innovations that make the VX25 unique

More simplicity, more speed, more use. It is the first large cabinet system that meets the technical requirements of industry 4.0. But what renders the VX25 perfect with a system?

Snapshots

Reliable steel production – At first glance, steel production seems to be all about flying sparks and glaring light. But take a look behind the scenes and you will discover a sophisticated IT infrastructure. thyssenkrupp Steel, one of the world’s leading suppliers of high-quality flat steel, uses modular, preconfigured edge data centres from Rittal in its operations. The two companies teamed up to develop custom solutions based on Rittal data centre containers (RDCC) directly at the production sites, enabling fast, secure and cost-effective IT capacity to be established at each and every location. The partners are continuing their work on the container-based edge data centres so that further custom requirements can be integrated into the solution in the future. © Getty Images/Sean Gallup/Staff

As the wind blows – If you’ve ever stood at the foot of a wind turbine and looked up high above you, you’ll no doubt have been blown away by the technical construction of these 150-metre-high towers with 60-metre-long rotor blades. Shanghai Electric Wind Power Group from China is a leading manufacturer and supplier of these gigantic structures. The company produces onshore and offshore wind turbines, deploying software from Eplan during the electrical planning – Eplan Electric P8 and Eplan Pro Panel, for example. © Gallery Stock/Greg Girard

A bright idea – Deutsche Telekom is using multifunctional enclosures from Rittal in its drive to expand the broadband network. The aim is to provide 80 per cent of households in Germany with high-speed internet based on fibre-optic technology by the end of 2019. The upgraded network will be capable of sending even massive volumes of data at the speed of light. In support of this project, Rittal has supplied the telecommunications giant with 34,000 modular outdoor enclosures over the past four years. © Michael Koch

Top performance on the high seas – Approximately two thirds of the Earth’s surface is covered with water. Nowhere is that clearer than on the three huge oceans that encapsulate land mass around the world. And yet humankind has only researched and explored a tiny proportion of the Earth’s seas. To help change that, Canadian company Aspin Kemp and Associates develops energy and drive technologies that are also suitable for maritime applications. The company, established on Prince Edward Island in 1996, pursues its aims with the aid of TS 8 enclosures from Rittal, primarily due to the comprehensive certification they offer. Thanks to the high level of standardisation and flexibility of the Rittal solution, customers – particularly those in the very price-sensitive oil and gas market – benefit from low maintenance costs, excellent reliability, energy savings and low emissions. © Getty Images/Cultura/Monty Rakusen

Ordered, packed and delivered – Global e-commerce has experienced a long-term growth trend for years. Last year alone, retail e-commerce sales worldwide amounted to more than a trillion euros. Whether books, movies, clothing or electrical appliances: Everything must go smoothly in the logistics centres so that the desired items are delivered to the customers as quickly as possible. That is why online retailers are favouring prevention rather than reaction. For instance in China, Europe and the United States, thousands of cooling units in the logistics centres ensure a fail-safe cooling and a trouble-free process. The maintenance and servicing of the equipment is provided by Rittal. © Getty Images/Getty Images News/Peter Macdiarmid

A passion for detail – Juicy ossobuco, creamy risotto alla Milanese or tender vitello tonnato – there is hardly a country in the world that celebrates the joy of eating good food as much as Italy. To make sure that their visitors are able to taste “la dolce vita” as part of their experience, many professional Italian chefs rely on electrical appliances from Electrolux Professional. The company’s dishwashers, stoves and steam ovens are also used in hotels, bars and restaurants all over the world. When designing the electrical components of its products, Electrolux Professional in Italy uses software from Eplan. The end result is a high level of standardisation and automation thanks to the use of macros and improved precision from using digital prototypes. © Getty Images/DigitalVision/Klaus Vedfelt

Bringing light into the darkness: Dark passageways, bizarre rock formations, damp rock faces and an almost eerie silence – exploring a cave is an unforgettable experience. To make such adventures even better for visitors, German company Cave Lighting has been installing state-of-the-art lighting, music, monitoring and power supply systems in publicly accessible show caves since 2005. In doing so, the company uses robust AE compact enclosures from Rittal, as the stainless steel systems are ideally equipped to withstand the tough climatic conditions underground. Besides the Kluterthöhle caves in Germany, Cave Lighting has also brought underground lakes, petrified creatures and stunning corals into view at the Caves of Han in Belgium, the Balcarka Cave in the Czech Republic and the Caves of Is Zuddas in Italy. © Michael Koch

Take a look: Those who dare look down upon the clouds certainly shouldn’t suffer from vertigo. Starting from this, and assuming you can get over any fear of heights you might have, pay a visit to the 148th storey of the Burj Khalifa, in Dubai, where you’ll have to use the world’s highest revolving door. The door was made by Boon Edam, the market leader for entrance solutions, headquartered in Edam, Netherlands. On the IT side of things, the company relies on an integrated PLM solution based on SAP 4/HANA – with support from Cideon. The core of the solution at Boon Edam is to automatically integrate design drawings into SAP and to create a central source for locally created data – a “single source of truth” – that can be accessed throughout the company. Moving forward, drawings and relevant documents for procurement and offers management will also be automatically generated in accordance with defined rules. © National Geographic Creative/Alamy Stock Photo

Hygienic production of goodies: When Daniel Peter constructed a chocolate factory on the outskirts of the Swiss town of Orbe in 1901, he could hardly have ever imagined it would play a key role in a global corporation in 2017. A merger in 1929 saw the factory become part of Nestlé. Nowadays, around 1,500 employees work at the Orbe site, manufacturing Nespresso capsules among other things. It is also home to the Nestlé Product Technology Centre (PTC), where coffee, breakfast drinks and infant food are developed. Hygiene-focused designs are particularly important in this environment. Which explains why the factory opted for the Rittal Hygienic Design enclosures, command panels and terminal boxes. They enable perfectly hygienic manufacturing processes. In addition, as an in-house innovation driver, the PTC is currently taking part in a one-year practical test run that pits a Blue e cooling unit against one of the latest generation Blue e+ units to compare energy consumption under real-life conditions. © Fabrice Coffrini/Staff/getty images

High performance

Totally top! Outstanding achievements inspire

Innovation – Eplan

What is the potential of the digital twin?

Teamwork – Society

Visiting the House of the little explorers

Innovation – Rittal

Control cabinet integration: four skills, one solution

– World wide

Customers throughout the world rely on the Friedhelm Loh Group

Experience – Engineering

The VX25 put to the test

The Schaper Group tests Rittal's latest switch cabinet for the first time. Does the technology deliver what it promises?

Innovation – Rittal

Innovation? It's a back-breaking task

be top spoke to Professor Friedhelm Loh about the background to the years of research and development work that have culminated in the VX25.

Video

Rapidity, Innovation, the strive for more and the courage to change lead to perfection.

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

Customers catch up on digital business prozecesses.

Experience – Engineering

This is how Voith saves Energy

Experience – Steel

Quality steel for rail systems

Innovation – Cooperation

Change in the Industriepark Höchst

Innovation – Cooperation

Stahlo expands towards the East

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