ENCLOSURES FEATURE


The required planning security is ensured by integrated plausibility checks that provide direct feedback, ensuring that the solution has a high level of reliability. Rittal has also simplified the ordering processes by linking it to the online shop, as well as with web-based conversion tools to support a changeover from the TS 8 to the VX25 large enclosure system.


EASY TRACKING Validated configuration and engineering results then provide the basis for the automatic controlling of machines at plant construction production facilities. The VX25 panels are equipped with a QR code to optimise the value creation processes within control and switchgear engineering. Production control and traceability is conceivable in the future


within control and switchgear engineering. Using the QR code, it will be possible to align the components of the enclosure to a specific order or customer project. This will allow the components to be tracked through the complete workflow, to be assigned to the correct editing programs and for the processing times to be recorded. www.rittal.co.uk


GLOBAL PRODUCTION AS PER INDUSTRY 4.0 A


state-of-the-art centre for manufacturing large enclosures, based on Industry 4.0


principles, is currently under construction at Rittal’s Rittershausen plant. While work there is ongoing, Rittal is also installing new high-tech production lines for its new VX25 large enclosure, at a total cost of €120m. The company is gearing up its production to


Industry 4.0 through consistent digitisation of processes and fully automated profiling, welding and panel manufacturing units, making the new centre a model for all Rittal production plants worldwide. The €120m investment sets the future direction for the plant, once the work there is complete in 2020. “Our goal is to establish the world’s most


modern centre for manufacturing large enclosures. To this end, we have started the transformation into the age of Industry 4.0. We are setting the next standard in the Rittal production system for our worldwide plants – based on the ‘one Rittal, one standard’ principle,” says Carsten Röttchen, managing director of International Production at Rittal The Rittershausen plant already featured a


high degree of automation in its sub-processes. “With the increasing digitisation called for by Industry 4.0, we will be automating further sub-


demands of the process. In addition, predictive maintenance data is used to improve the technical availability of the production facilities. In contrast to the new Haiger plant, which is


processes, increasing data consistency and integrating the production process into a completely digitised value chain through a manufacturing execution system.” The process improvements include knowledge-based systems that are constantly evolving through data networking and analysis. Trends can be detected in real time as they arise by means of continuous target-to-actual comparisons of the production machines and statistical processes. As a result, interference factors can be avoided before they occur and tolerances can be safeguarded in order to achieve the high quality


being built on a greenfield site and will be ready to start production at the end of 2018, the conversion towards digitised and automated processes at Rittershausen is taking place during ongoing operations. The first units for the VX25, such as the fully automated panel lines for mounting plates, as well as the profiling and welding systems, have already been installed. When completed in 2020, the new production facility will have three profiling systems, each 70 metres in length. This means that the horizontal and vertical frame sections of the new VX25 large enclosure system, which have perfect symmetry and a consistent 25-mm pitch pattern, will be manufactured in one process. The volume production lines also have fully automatic welding systems. Thirty-one robots (for welding and handling) deployed in the fully automatic volume welding system will ensure that the transport and welding processes run reliably within the plant. They will also guarantee the quality standard of the new Rittal VX25 large enclosure system.


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