The magazine of Friedhelm Loh Group
The magazine of Friedhelm Loh Group
A fire breaks out in the data centre – firefighters arrive on the scene and turn on their hoses. Within a matter of seconds, servers and IT infrastructure are all deluged with water – it’s an image IT administrators aren’t keen to dwell on. At Ralf Bohle, there’s no chance of flames taking hold in the server room. The Schwalbe bicycle tyre manufacturer has made safety and security a priority and opted for IT infrastructure from Rittal.
In mechanical and plant engineering the primary focus has long since shifted away from being “just” on product quality. It’s all about the process. It has to be simpler, more efficient and, most importantly, faster. The only way to achieve that is by ingeniously combining hardware and software, through digitalisation and automation. When companies need assistance with that, Eplan and Rittal can help right from the start, with their value chain consulting and engineering expertise and automation know-how.
Data centre operators are currently under huge pressure to cut energy consumption, but what practical steps can they take and what impact do these measures have? The Rittal Service team has some concrete suggestions. Besides the little “quick wins” that can be achieved just by adjusting the cooling parameters slightly, free cooling in particular can soon deliver measurable results.
Using engineering data directly in SAP delivers process excellence and boosts performance. The ECTR interface between Eplan and SAP developed by Cideon has enabled RAMPF Production Systems GmbH & Co. KG to eliminate error sources while at the same time networking its engineering and business worlds.
Companies are increasingly configuring products that have multiple variants, but this involves complex in-house mechanical and plant engineering processes. In many cases, CAD data is not factored in. When using Cideon Conify, sales configuration, automated CAD data, engineering-to-order and bills of materials now go hand in hand – the ideal combination of CONfiguration and CONnection.
Can it be done in nine months? Nine months to build and supply 400 switchgear units containing soft starters for electric motors for one of the biggest infrastructure projects in Egypt – imagine doing that just two years after launching your own panel-building operations. That is no problem for AuCom Global Solutions! There was just one condition – extensive standardisation and automation.
The new Eplan Platform 2023 is now ramping up the pace in engineering.
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
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.