Rittal to demonstrate its expertise for networked industry at Hanover Fair 2016

Under the motto “Our expertise. Your benefit.”, visitors to Rittal at the 2016 Hanover Fair can experience smart products for the networked industry, solutions for accelerating value-added processes, as well as services with significant added value (the photograph shows Rittal at the 2015 Hanover Fair).
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Save time and costs and so increase customers’ competitiveness; at the 2016 Hanover Fair, Rittal is showing just which products, manufacturing solutions and services are needed so customers can do just that. Under the motto “Our expertise. Your benefit.”, visitors to Stand E06 in Hall 11 can experience smart products for networked industry, solutions for accelerating value creation processes, and services with clear added value. The solutions offered range from smart cooling units, product data for professional engineering in controller and switchgear production, configuration and online tools for simplified technical and commercial processes, efficient automation solutions and safe IT “on demand” solutions.

Everybody is talking about Industry 4.0, but how do things really look in practice? In late April, at the world’s leading industrial trade fair in Hanover, visitors can find out for themselves just how much networking in production has progressed over recent months. Developments mainly revolve around three trend issues: smart products that communicate with each other in industrial production, as well as the data associated with them. Besides this, there are fully networked value-added processes and new services that promise the maximum possible customer benefit.

“Rittal provides the answers to these three trends at its stand. We are demonstrating our expertise for networked industry in a special, media-effective way, as well as highlighting individual benefits for our customers in intensive discussions”, says Dirk Miller, Rittal’s Executive Vice President Marketing.

Smart solutions for rapid value creation

Today, customers from the controller and switchgear construction sector need help to select products more easily and require solutions for fully networked value chains in order to speed up their technical and business processes. Rittal shows how, when planning and purchasing an enclosure, the entire process from product selection through to shipping can be greatly simplified. Trade show visitors can make themselves familiar with both the new Rittal System Configurator for small enclosures, as well as with the new functions of the Rittal Online Shop.

Consistent smart solutions help in meeting customer’s requirements accurately and quickly. The decisive factor here is a high consistency of data across the entire value chain – from engineering to production. At the Hanover Fair, Rittal is showing just how this is done, based on a realistic controller and switchgear construction production operation. The virtual prototype of an enclosure represents a unifying element that forms the centre of the value chain.

Smart products for networked industry

Networking in a production environment is not an end in itself: In addition to resource planning, configuration and logistics, another essential objective is to increase the safety and availability of equipment. These include, for example, the “Blue e+” cooling units from Rittal, which are equipped with entirely new communication interfaces. If they are integrated in plant networks, maintenance data can be transferred immediately. In the event of defects, service is notified specifically and in the best case, can then intervene based on the data from Blue e+” before an error occurs. Rittal is also presenting its all-round expertise in energy-efficient system climate control at the Hanover Fair.

An additional objective is the acceleration of design and engineering processes. Here, Rittal is making quality CAE and CAD data available for its entire range of products – from enclosure technology to power distribution and climate control systems.

Smart Services for improved customer benefits

The “Internet of things” generates a huge amount of highly sensitive data (“Big Data”) that has to be included in the added-value processes and protected. Rittal also offers IT solutions with effective security concepts for all application areas, from the rack, via the “Micro Data Center” and through to the container. Mega-projects such as the Lefdal Mine Datacenter and ready-to-use, turnkey cloud data centres in containers with servers and software show that the rapid implementation of powerful and highly secure IT services has never been as easy.

In order to clearly demonstrate these solutions and their benefits, visitors to the Hanover Fair are being offered an interesting visual programme at the Rittal stand every day.

Rittal is also present at other parts of the Hanover Fair: at the joint “Smart Engineering and Production 4.0” stand with Eplan and Phoenix Contact (Stand D28 in Hall 8) and at the “Tec2You” initiative for up and coming talent (at Stand D03 in Hall P11). Trade visitors who would like to deepen their knowledge of the topics software and mechatronics can find out more at the booth of the sister companies Eplan and Cideon (Stand K16, Hall 6).

For more information, please visit www.rittal.com/.

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