White Paper: Rittal's Industry 4.0 Philosophy – Shaping Future Manufacturing

Industry 4.0 is a fairly new concept, but it’s one that the market as a whole is coming to embrace. That’s because Industry 4.0 demands constant reexamining and improving upon the way in which engineering, production, and logistics inter-relate.

Rittal is a leader when it comes to this emerging practice; specifically, with how the company is bringing Industry 4.0 technology to electronic enclosure and panel manufacturing vis-à-vis a seamless value chain.

The company details it in a new white paper it published, entitled “Industry 4.0 Philosphy.”

From the paper’s opening statement:

The “Industry 4.0” concept is the result of a question initially posed by the German government to that country’s manufacturing industry leaders: “What’s the next stage of evolution for manufacturing? What would our roadmap for the future of industry and manufacturing look like?”

That initial question has evolved into a global movement known as Industry 4.0, with the goal of making production more efficient, cost-effective, and flexible and to deliver a better product to the customer in less time. Rather than striving to optimize individual engineering, production, or logistics stages, Industry 4.0 demands re-examining and improving the way these stages interrelate.

Rittal is bringing Industry 4.0 technology to electronic enclosure and panel manufacturing by integrating the offerings of several sister companies to create a seamless value chain. In essence, Industry 4.0 is about data, software and interfaces and the ability to use them to model and simulate the final product in a virtual environment to optimize the design and eliminate errors prior to actual manufacturing. A seamless value chain can make it possible to slash engineering/production costs by up to 50 percent. Some manufacturers have also been able to shorten design times by up to 60 percent by reducing delays caused by repetitive rework involved in design changes.

Users will also learn:

• Learn how EPLAN and Rittal Automation Systems collaborate to make a lightning-fast value chain for the engineering and production of custom enclosures
• Discover Rittal’s Industry 4.0 advantages—from customer-specified design modification precision to design performance predictions and better energy efficiency within enclosures

To download this white paper, visit our sister site TechOnline.com