Cases & enclosures
The rising demand for indusTrial enclosure assembly services
The demand for turnkey electrical solutions from OEM and electrical installers looking to reduce their assembly times is increasing. This gives manufactures of enclosures the opportunity to offer a value added service by carrying out customisation and assembly in-house. In this article, Chris Lloyd, managing director at Spelsberg UK, explains the reasons for the growth in demand of industrial enclosure assembly services.
obviously crucial. It has got to be robust enough to meet demands and have the functionality required for the application, including customisation. However, increasingly the market requires not just the enclosure, but an assembly service that can provide a complete - or partially complete - assembly. Assembly could range from a DIN rail and terminals, right through to fitting and wiring a controller, providing the customer with a plug and play solution. Spelsberg has seen growing demand from
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customers year-on-year for its assembly service. Customers increasingly have constraints on time and strive for ever greater efficiency. One reason is that businesses are more streamlined than ever, with more compact yet higher skilled workforces. As a result, Spelsberg’s
hen a customer selects an industrial enclosure supplier, the quality of the enclosure itself is
customers’ engineering roles are focussed on specialised tasks which require a high level of training. This means that they are looking to outsource tasks which deviate the focus from what their skilled staff are trained to do, and this means outsourcing the assembly of components within industrial enclosures. At the same time, Spelsberg employees are
highly skilled in the planning and implementation of enclosure assembly, which means that in most cases the company can do it faster than the customer can. For example, a recent project required assembly of two large GRP units bolted back-to-back, involving installation of telescopic handles, backplates and other customer-specified components. The customer’s timescales were extremely tight to fulfil their project demands and Spelsberg completed assembly within a week, which was faster than any other estimates the customer received. For this reason, combining assembly with enclosure procurement will ultimately increase the customer’s speed of project completion. Combined with reducing customer
resources and project time, outsourced assembly is also likely to mean reduced project cost. Spelsberg is set up to quickly and efficiently assemble enclosures on a daily basis. For this reason, in house assembly will nearly always be more expensive than Spelsberg’s cost-competitive assembly process. An added benefit of relying on a
manufacturer’s assembly service, rather than outsourcing to a third party, is that it puts accountability for the effective and timely completion of the whole project onto a single supplier. This makes project management far more efficient as well as reducing costs. When it comes to assembly itself, standard
requirements include installation of components such as terminals, DIN rails and cable glands. Membrane keypads and wiring are also a frequent request. An example of specific assembly at Spelsberg could include a digital thermostat unit, where the customer provides the company with the digital controller which Spelsberg installs, including wiring, fitting of the terminals and DIN rail. Essentially, Spelsberg can fulfil virtually any assembly requirement.
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Working in one-off or small quantities
up to batches, Spelsberg works closely with the customer and their design to create a tailor-made solution, and it can also provide planning assistance. This way, the company can bring its extensive experience of working across numerous previous projects to the benefit of the customer by advising them on the most efficient or effective assembly layouts when required. Assembly also extends to modules, which
tend to be used on large-scale control systems, a requirement for example by the rail industry with Spelsberg GTI enclosures, as well as baggage handling systems. The quality of the Spelsberg enclosure and its
customised service is crucial and it is a primary reason why customers return to Spelsberg.
Spelsberg UK
www.spelsberg.co.uk February 2021 Instrumentation Monthly
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