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Experience – Hade Automation

Enclosures in high-wage countries

How can smaller plant engineering companies remain competitive in countries with high wages? Hade Automation is a good example. This company, which is based in the south-west of Germany and has 24 skilled employees, plans and builds switchgear for the building technology sector. It has found the key to greater competitiveness – end-to-end electrical planning based on Eplan, complete with automated data transfer to the production department.

Experience – Engineering Elektrotechnik Janssen

Setting the pace for stacking cranes

When it comes to fully automated container stacking cranes for port terminals all over the world, Elektrotechnik Janssen (ETJ) almost always has a part to play. That puts a great deal of pressure on this manufacturer of controls and switchgear, which has a lot of work to do, but too few people to do it. Operations Manager Christian Diekmann realised that the solution lay in automated wire processing. He drove the project forward, with support from Rittal – and this led to the company’s biggest ever investment.

Teamwork – “SchulePlus” dual work/study project

Student in the morning ... apprentice in the afternoon

What job would suit me? Many young people worry about this question. The “SchulePlus” dual work/study project, which is currently the only one of its kind anywhere in Germany, can help them find answers – and it offers solutions in the face of the skills shortage, too. This project, which is being driven forward by the Friedhelm Loh Group and the Johann-Textor school in Haiger, is winning over apprentices and students, the Minister of Culture for the Federal State of Hesse, and a national judging panel.

Experience – Automation in the USA

It's a Gamechanger

Three U.S. plant and equipment manufacturers provide insight into their success stories, revealing how their partnerships with Eplan and Rittal helped them make a breakthrough, leave the competition in their wake and get on the path to growth. One of these three game-changers is Brad Howell, owner of R&D Specialties in Odessa, Texas.

Experience – WestfalenWIND IT and windCORES

Hidden IT powerhouse

Wind turbines produce so much electricity that this sometimes can’t even be fed into the public grid, while the sheer amount of electricity required by data centres throws up major challenges for grid operators. WestfalenWIND IT has done the maths – and has got Rittal on board.

Experience – International projects

Worldwide

On high mountaintops, in the supermarket or in railway tunnels – Solutions from the Friedhelm Loh Group are used wherever weather-resistant enclosures, a reliable IT infrastructure and energy supply are needed.

– International projects

Worldwide

From manufacturing biogas plants to university laboratories – solutions developed by the Friedhelm Loh Group are used in all manner of environments where a reliable energy supply, weather resistance or a high-availability IT infrastructure is essential.

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– Automuseum

The classroom with wheels!

Since it opened, 130,000 people have come to see for themselves what the German “Stern” magazine called “Europe’s most spectacular car museum”. Some have even come to study and learn – because the museum is also a university campus and a knowledge hub. Prof. Wolfgang Henseler, one of Germany’s leading design experts, is responsible for the “museum as a centre of learning” concept.

Experience – It's a Gamechanger

“The future is AI-driven – even in plant engineering”

Current geopolitical changes are driving industry further into crisis mode in many different countries. It’s a very different story in the USA, where industry is booming – is this an opportunity for Germany and Europe? And what’s the position regarding new growth prospects through technologies such as AI, specifically in plant engineering? In this interview, we discuss trends and prospects with Prof. Niko Mohr, who is a Friedhelm Loh Group board member and CEO of Rittal International and Rittal Software Systems.

Experience – Platics LKH and Poly-clip System

When sustainability is on a reel

There are companies out there that, despite being global leaders in their industries, often aren’t that well-known. Poly-clip System is one of these hidden champions. The packaging specialist is in the top league – not only in terms of innovations, but also when it comes to sustainability. For its plastics technology, the company puts its trust in LKH as its most important development partner and producer.

Innovation – New RiTherm software

Climate control made intuitive

You don’t need to be a specialist to perform accurate thermal calculations for enclosures – not even when standard-compliant proof of energy efficiency or the carbon footprint is called for. That’s because RiTherm, the new design tool from Rittal, enables users to calculate the necessary enclosure climate control – and much more besides – in next to no time.

Cideon, SBF and LUNUX
Transportation technology

CAD in – lights on

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Zahnen Technik

Smart production, clean water

Innovation – RiPower configurator

Digital powerhouse

Innovation – RiLineX ecosystem

AC? DC? Faster together

Experience – One question:

Global free trade – what’s becoming of it, Bertram Kawlath?

Experience – International projects

Around the world

On the water, on land and in the air – Friedhelm Loh Group solutions are in use wherever having a reliable IT infrastructure, a secure energy supply or weather-resistant enclosures is a must.

Experience – Rittal ePocket at Huhtamaki

Be Sure what’s inside

Any transformation offers an opportunity to do things better – including at Huhtamaki Foodservice, which makes packaging for McDonald’s and Nestlé. The company is switching production at its German site from plastic thermoforming to pulp moulding. It is also rethinking system documentation, using Rittal ePocket to create transparency – and also to save paper.

Video

Interview with Brad Howell (owner of R&D Specialties)

Interview with Sean Rezin (Executive Vice President of Usemco)

Interview with John Miller (Vice President of Engineering Specialists)

Setting the pace for stacking cranes

Sustainably Cool - BORA Data Center

Rittal reportage naturenergie netze

How can we accelerate the transformation of our energy systems

DNV test in the Phoenix Testlab

I’m a fan of the TX! - Interview with Christoph Laves, Managing Director of IT-Budget GmbH.

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

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

Automated driving - IT infrastructure for BMW vehicle tests

Experience
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Hargassner and Rittal

Turbocharging automation

Experience
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Cideon and kolb Cleaning Technology

Spare parts? Processing...

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Institut Cartogràfic and Rittal

From maps to data

Innovation
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The new RiLineX power platform

More power with a platform

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