Rittal Application Centre
Panel Modification, Automation Machinery and Enhanced Processes
Do any of these challenges sound familiar to you?
- Difficulty in finding skilled control cabinet production staff
- Increased pressure to deliver control cabinets faster, increasing the risk of error in the production process
- Time lost in creating manufacturing documentation
- Customers making last minute changes when you’re ready for (or already in) production
At the Rittal Application Centre we can present to you how to solve all of these challenges and more. Whether you’re looking for innovative solutions to expand your capabilities with modern automation machinery and world-leading software, or your business needs a hand completing panel modifications quickly and without errors, our Application Centre is here to help.
What is the Rittal Application Centre?
The Application Centre, located at our UK Rotherham site, is both a space for businesses wishing to optimise their processes to discover innovative solutions, as well as being a working modification centre where we partner with customers to help them complete their projects.
We work alongside ambitious businesses who want to reduce their engineering challenges, explore the latest technologies, software and solutions, and increase their productivity.
The Centre brings together sister companies Rittal and Eplan, to showcase a way of working that equips businesses to stay competitive well into the future. Automation machinery, assembly tools and integrated software solutions work together to create a seamless, efficient project flow – from engineering to procurement and production to operation.
FAQs
Cooperation: In the Application Centre, we will help you take your workflow to the next level with optimisation along your value chain. When you visit the Centre, we’ll spend time getting to know your business, to find out what processes working well and what processes could be improved to help you stay competitive. During your visit, you’ll get to see how these processes work in a practical environment, see our exciting software and automation solutions in action, and discover how implementing changes could save you time, money and reduce challenges.
Whether you’d like help with a specific area, such as digital documentation, wire processing or data flow through projects, or you’re looking to optimise your whole panel building or switchgear manufacturing operations; the Application Centre is the place to come. With Rittal and Eplan together, we have a wealth of knowledge that we’re ready to impart during your visit.
Workshop + Modifications: As well as being a place where we can help you explore new possiblities, the Application Centre is also a fully functioning workshop environment in which customers can send us desired modifications and we’ll work to get them completed. If you’re turning away work or struggling to keep up with demand, our Application Centre is the perfect solution. Order your enclosures or racks from us, we’ll sort the modifications as per your instructions and ship direct to you.
Our team are highly knowledgeable and will help you complete work to a high standard, so you can receive your product quickly, simply and without error. To enquire about the workshop services we offer, please fill out the form below.
The Application Centre is all about you, so we’ll spend time getting to know you, your business and your plans to make sure that we can offer you the right service. Whether you’re looking for modification and workshop services, want to experience our state-of-the-art automation and machinery or discover leading engineering software; we can help. The first step is to get in contact with us through the enquiry form at the bottom of this page, then we’ll be in touch for an initial chat and to book you in for a visit at our Rotherham site.
Visits to the Centre and time with our experts is free, so this is not an opportunity to miss. Our production workshop aims to help you increase your profitability, helping you to get work completed quickly, without delays, friction or time-consuming manual work.
We work with each Application Centre visitor on an individual basis, to cater to their unique requirements. This means that to provide you with a quote for modification work, we’ll need talk with you to find out more about your project. Please fill out the enquiry form below and our friendly team will be in contact.
If you’re looking for ways to help manage your business’ current workload, you want to explore software solutions for electrical engineers, you’re interested in automation machinery or optimising your entire value chain; the Application Centre is the place to visit.
Our team are backed by years of know-how and expertise, ready to help you overcome any challenges you might be facing. If you’re looking for a way to take your business from strength to strength, visit the Application Centre and experience how Rittal and Eplan can be your strong partners for sustainable panel building and switchgear manufacturing.
Furthermore, our modification service will help your business to keep up with workloads, maximising your efficiency and profitability. We’re here to help you, so use the Application Centre as an overflow service to support your business demands.
Rittal and EPLAN
The Complete Value Chain
The challenges of modern industry, including digitalisation, data flow, automation, transparency, speed, and sustainability, coupled with critical issues like the skills shortage, mean that businesses are looking for ways to encourage growth and prepare for the future. At EPLAN, we are uniquely positioned to help businesses address these challenges head-on, in collaboration with leading solutions from our sister company, Rittal.
Rittal and EPLAN together combine industrial experience and technological know-how to help businesses optimise their processes along their value chain. We streamline and speed up processes at every phase: from engineering, to procurement and manufacturing, through to operation.
There is an ever-growing need for combined hardware and software solutions, product-related data and holistic services for process integration throughout operations. When all the solutions really come together, the end result is enormous gains in productivity and profitability. This is precisely what the partnership between EPLAN and Rittal offers. Experience the synergy between Rittal and EPLAN firsthand at our Application Centre, where our combined expertise drives unparalleled efficiency and success.
Your benefits at a glance
The Future of Industry
Improve Engineering Processes
At the Application Centre, you'll get to see the seamless interaction between EPLAN and Rittal tools. You'll see how improvements can be made along the value chain, for example how better data flow can have wide-reaching benefits to efficiency, productivity and cost reduction. Utilising Rittal and Eplan's unique relationship, data can flow through the EPLAN Platform, from planning, schematic creation in EPLAN Electric P8, 3D design and digital twins in EPLAN Pro Panel, with validated data for electrical components from the EPLAN Data Portal. Data then moves into the Rittal system configurators to allow you to configure the enclosures and accessories with plausibility-check and in 3D - ready for handing over the data to mechanical or manual further processing.
Experience how all these tools and processes interlock perfectly, tailored to your individual requirements and needs.
Automated Manufacturing
At the Application Centre, explore how automated solutions enable faster manufacturing and reproducible processes with consistently high quality – using the digital twin. Experience how our range of solutions, from manual tools through to fully automated machine technology, will significantly accelerate your processes: from automated drilling and milling, laser machining, busbar machining, component cutting and assembly to semi- or fully automated wire processing and handling systems.
Optimise Your Value Chain
Even selectively optimising your workflows brings efficiency gains and increases your productivity, quality and competitiveness: But if you focus on the entire value chain – from planning and design to order placement, production, delivery and service - you can boost your efficiency and gain a decisive competitive edge on the market. Explore your opportunities together with our value chain consultants when visiting the Application Centre.
