Technical References

Technical References Page

The Rittal Technical Page brings together a wealth of resources designed to support diverse industries and applications. Here you’ll find technical papers offering product insights, along with videos that showcase solutions in action. By consolidating knowledge and expertise in one place, Rittal provides a comprehensive hub to explore innovations that enhance efficiency, reliability, and performance across multiple sectors.

IT

Smart Shopping

And again no coffee on the shelf, although it is right at the top of the shopping list. This cannot happen at LIDL in Finland, where Rittal's IT department ensures that the shelves are always well stocked.

Meurer etechnik GmbH & Co. KG

“AX is far more flexible”

Manual work is one of those tasks in panel building and switchgear manufacturing that consumes a lot of time. Real pace-setters are needed: solutions that are easier to handle, are faster and which simply offer more design freedom. Meurer-etechnik...

Songdo

A smart city in Korea

Smart cities are networked, high-tech environments designed to improve residents’ personal and professional lives while also making them more sustainable. A prime example can be found in a new district of the huge city of Incheon in South Korea, which...

VX25

VX25 in use

One of the major challenges facing this medium-sized switchgear manufacturer is producing switchgear on time and adhering to requested delivery dates. The new VX25 from Rittal saves an impressive amount of time in field testing.

Customer application

101 percent availability

When one of the USA’s largest telecom providers was in need of flexibly configurable IT racks, including cooling and monitoring solutions, for a new research and test installation, it found what it was looking for at Rittal.

B. Braun

A data centre that meets Industry 4.0 requirements in a flash

The IT experts at B. Braun, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of medical technology and pharmaceutical products, were faced with a real challenge – rapidly expanding the site’s IT infrastructure ready for a new, state-of-the-art production facility.

Airbus

Flight simulation for safety tests

Before an A320 can take off for its maiden flight from the runway at the Airbus factory in Hamburg-Finkenwerder, a variety of tests and simulations need to be successfully completed, during which powerful servers and other hardware components in...

Pneumatechnique Ltd.

Enclosure constructor cuts costs with automation solution from Rittal

British enclosure manufacturer Pneumatechnique Ltd. was looking for ways of using automation to reduce its operating costs – and found the perfect solution with Rittal.

Meurer-etechnik

Investment is safeguarding competitiveness

Switchgear manufacturer uses workshop automation to meet customer demands for shorter delivery times.

Xylem Services GmbH

Xylem Services GmbH cuts operating costs with Rittal Blue e+ cooling units

Xylem Services GmbH is saving an annual five-figure sum by using Blue e+ cooling units from Rittal to cool its switchgear.

TESVOLT

Hot water on the mountainside

A photovoltaic system and a combined heat and power plant operated with vegetable oil supply carbon-neutral electrical energy for the alpine hut of the German Alpine Association’s Coburg section. The hut offers hot showers, a drying room and even...

Nestlé, Switzerland

Energy efficiency for roasted coffee

In addition to process heat, the food industry requires continuous cooling that is as energy efficient as possible. A great deal of energy is needed for everything from refrigerated storage and fast freezing to the cooling of electrical controls.

Alexander Bürkle

Electrical design with the digital twin

The company Alexander Bürkle, which employs around 800 people at 22 locations in southern Germany, is currently evolving from an electrical wholesaler to a service provider that offers intelligent engineering support for its customers in building...

US-Retailer

High-availability, energy-efficient e-commerce processes with Rittal

An online retailer in the USA used Rittal systems to modernise its warehouses’ IT infrastructure and is also saving energy as a result.

Bürger

Reliable protection of the electronic control functions during wet cleaning

“Maultaschen” (ravioli-like filled pasta cases) are a Swabian speciality and every day, nearly 1.5 million of them leave Bürger, a local, family-run business. State-of-the-art production and process technology and the highest hygiene standards are...

Celler Land Geflügel

Hygienic protection of the control electronics

Every day, more than 500,000 packs of fresh chicken leave Celler Landgeflügel. The highest standards of hygiene must be adhered to when preparing fresh poultry.

XPAR Vision

IT-supported manufacturing process monitoring

Extreme temperatures and ever-present dust in glass manufacturing are a big challenge for sensitive measurement systems. An IT infrastructure designed to withstand this kind of heat is therefore a must.

Voith Turbo

Energy costs reduced by 70 per cent

Voith Turbo discovered that switching the enclosure climate control technology used for the machining centres in its production department to state-of-the-art Blue e+ cooling units from Rittal could deliver considerable efficiency savings.

Huuskes

Hygienically packed fire extinguishers

In addition to the need for food processing machinery to be hygienically clean at all times, the immediate production environment must also meet the highest standards of cleanliness. This also applies to seemingly unrelated equipment such as fire...

National Bank of Kuwait

System availability of 99.982%

Demanding an availability of 99.982 per cent and permitting downtime of just 1.6 hours a year, the Uptime Institute has high expectations when it comes to Tier III certification of a data centre. The challenge faced by the National Bank of Kuwait was...

CPS Case Packaging System

Well packed

The production hall of Dutch company CPS Case Packing Systems in Stramproy has a total of 54 Rittal VX25 large enclosure systems. They house electrical control components for the nine packaging lines the company is setting up for a Canadian manufacturer...

Italian retailer

Perfect service

An Italian supermarket chain is using an IT infrastructure from Rittal to provide a unique shopping experience for customers and ensure the relevant IT processes benefit from high availability.

Duim techniek

VX25 large enclosures’ simple installation saves time

Each smart control unit built by the approximately 30 employees at Duim techniek is one of a kind, requiring considerable time, skill and effort to create. The VX25 large enclosure system from Rittal is one way of saving assembly and installation time.

Thermia

Consistent data boosts productivity

The major challenge for medium-sized panel building and switchgear manufacturing companies lies in completing projects as efficiently as possible while also delivering a quality result. A high degree of automation and end-to-end data retention – from...

Vidal Automatización y Control

Panel building and switchgear manufacturing trimmed for efficiency

Flexibility and rapid production are two of the main demands placed on panel building and switchgear manufacturing today. Vidal Automatización y Control has been facing up to these challenges and looking for ways to increase the efficiency of the...

Tophinke

Clean milk production

To ensure supermarket customers reaching for a yoghurt or a bar of chocolate never have any cause for concern regarding the cleanliness of the manufacturing process, all machinery, equipment and components in food production lines must have a hygienic...

Canal Marine & Industrial

A standardised system: hybrid drives on the Great Lakes

In 2019, the Great Lakes Towing Company based in Cleveland, Ohio, commissioned the first three tugs with hybrid propulsion. Rittal is also on board, supplying the switchgear technology for the electric drive.

CSP Terminal

When enclosures have to brave wind and weather

Sea air may be regarded as being healthy, but not for electrical installations. Electrical components are normally housed in an enclosure that provides the necessary reliable protection against environmental influences.

Bepacom

VX25 as the foundation of sustainable technology

When Bepacom was constructing its new, completely energy-neutral company building and choosing which enclosure technology to use for the necessary electrical engineering installations, the decision was an easy one to make. The VX25 large enclosure...

H&W Control GmbH

Leading with hydropower

For a plant on Panama's highest mountain, the Volcán Barú, H&W Control relied on enclosures from Rittal. Five bays - three for energy management with the RiLine 1600 A busbar system and two bays for plant control - were delivered to Panama.

OSI Food Solutions

Hygiene for the burger industry

Pure hygiene – that is the claim made by OSI Food Solutions Germany, and it is backed up with the very latest technology.

Ripploh Elektrotechnik & Engineering

Up to 1,500 wires in eight hours

Promoting automation is Andreas Ripploh’s goal. At his company, Ripploh Elektrotechnik & Engineering, for example, a Wire Terminal from Rittal is now in operation that significantly increases productivity in wire processing.

Elpex AG

From jigsaws to automatic enclosure machining

Elpex uses a Perforex machining centre and a Secarex AC 15 cutting centre from Rittal Automation Systems to automate workshop processes.

Engie Fabricom

Robust planning data for easy conversion to VX25

To enhance project efficiency, a panel builder and switchgear manufacturer must fulfil two core requirements: data must be available from end to end, and must be of high quality. Belgium-based Engie Fabricom has demonstrated how this can be achieved.