Customers benefit from faster project handling, planning certainty and cost transparency. Their time is too precious to spend hours reading the manuals needed when planning an enclosure fit-out manually or to create parts lists by hand.

Rittal has resolved this issue by offering a simple digital tool that enables users to plan their system quickly and easily. This tool is the new RiPower configurator – the successor to the Power Engineering tool. Thanks to seamless data consistency with Rittal and Eplan software solutions, users also benefit from maximum planning convenience. This makes it much easier to plan power distribution systems and busbar components.

EASY TO OPERATE

RiPower is easy to operate and userfriendly. With a click of their mouse, users simply select the RiPower configurator from a range of apps such as the Eplan Data Portal, eStock or RiTherm. The planning tool can be used to configure not only Ri4Power energy distribution systems, but also the RiLine and new RiLineX systems.

RiPower generates the interior fit-out of a switchgear system automatically through intelligent system queries. Consequently, this work no longer needs to be performed by a specialist planner – even the system’s power output limits are automatically taken into account. Standard-compliant systems ensure people and equipment are kept safe, and making mistakes during planning is simply not possible. Users benefit from automatic documentation and the creation of design verifications to IEC 61439. They can use a customised design verification wizard to create their own design verifications.

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  INTERVIEW

  We are keen to know what customers think of RiPower, so we put a few questions to Bernd Mähnss, Managing Partner at Hanseatic Power Solutions GmbH.

  Mr. Mähnss, your planning team is already working with RiPower. Can you tell us about their initial experiences?

  We’ve been using the new RiPower configurator to plan our switchgear for a few months now. Our initial experiences have shown that it helps us design our systems with greater speed and ease. There are various reasons for this – for example, the tool is now better integrated into the Eplan software world, and automated processes mean there are far fewer errors.

  Which features do you particularly like?

  It’s easy to put together complete switchgear systems – that saves time and makes planning a lot easier. As RiPower is available in a cloud environment for the first time, together with Eplan software solutions, we have flexible access to our project data. This means we no longer need to carry out manual updates, but can always work with the latest software version.

  
  Can you estimate how much time RiPower is saving you in the engineering process?

  RiPower saves us around four hours of manual work per enclosure. The automatic calculations mean many work steps are no longer needed. That’s a massive gain!

   

CONSISTENTLY TRANSPARENT

Once the configuration is complete, RiPower generates field-specific assembly instructions to enable fast installation that is standard-compliant at all times. The system can even be pre-assembled in the Rittal Application Center in Gera on request. Besides downloading the relevant documents, users can order components from the Rittal online shop directly at the touch of a button, or get a detailed quote.

RiPower fits into the existing Rittal and Eplan ecosystem seamlessly – data from the configurator, such as parts lists, can be processed further in Eplan P8 or AutoCAD, and machining centres from Rittal Automation Systems can also be connected for machining copper.