SUPPLEMENT ENCLOSURES & ENCLOSURE FURNITURE
CLIMATE CONTROL MAINTENANCE IS NO FALSE ECONOMY…. IT’S THE KEY TO EFFICIENCY
By Karl Lycett, Rittal’s product manager for Climate Control £
480,000 is a lot of money! But that is what I was told it costs
one of the UK’s largest automotive manufacturers PER HOUR when they experience downtime on their paint plant. Your overheads may not be as substantial as the above example, but that doesn’t take away from the fact that the old adage you hear in every corner of business and production is true: Time is Money. Regardless of your industry and the
product you manufacture, production downtime is a crucial performance indicator to monitor because of the direct impact it can have on your bottom line. More downtime equals increased spares/maintenance costs, taken directly from your profit. This could have been invested to meet more pertinent business objectives, purchasing new machinery, etc. When I speak with customers across
the UK regarding their attitude towards climate control maintenance, it tends to fall by the wayside on the priority list, and there seems to be some main drivers for this thought process: “I will just fix a problem when it occurs”.
In the past, the approach of reactive
maintenance was seen as acceptable for most businesses. However, times have changed. The key goals of any sized business are now becoming ‘increased throughput’, ‘Cost Efficiency’, ‘Continuous Improvement’. Potential roadblocks to output targets need to be nipped in the bud and nobody wants to be the one in the morning meeting explaining why yesterday’s targets weren’t met! The implementation of a semi-
regular maintenance schedule doesn’t more detailed review for you.
“MY EQUIPMENT IS CURRENTLY OPERATING AND I HAVEN’T SERVICED IT IN MONTHS/YEARS” The problem may be ‘out of sight, out of mind’ for now, but the longer your cooling equipment is left unchecked, the higher the risk. For example, if a fan unit is in a
dusty environment and the filter mat becomes clogged, this will reduce its effectiveness to cool the electrical equipment within due to a reduced
“Rittal has been manufacturing industry-leading climate control equipment for 30 years and all of its
service staff are highly trained on the whole portfolio to ensure they can remedy your issues”
have to be massively time-consuming. Even something as simple as a weekly visual check of cooling equipment filter mats or any system alarms can alert you in good time to call in the experts, who can then perform a
level of air throughput. This in turn can increase the
enclosure internal temperature. As a rule of thumb, for every 10˚C you increase your internal temperature, you halve the life of the equipment
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