17/03/21 Automation Concern Four – 'Nobody makes automated machinery for building control panels'

A modern CAE system will provide a high degree of automation for the design process by enforcing design rules, flagging errors and carrying out tedious tasks like wire numbering and the generation of terminal schedules. It can then go further by automatically updating such information if there should be any design changes. Increasing efficiency in the design stage is great, but what about actually building the panels? Automating processes through engineering AND production is where you’ll see big gains.

23/02/21 Automation Concern Three – 'The benefits of automation in panel building are...

Within the panel building industry, panel builders and system integrators develop systems that can be as sophisticated...

2/02/21 Automation Concern Two – 'Automation is too expensive for us to contemplate.'

To be fair, automating design and production is not, nor should it be a trivial investment, But think about this: if...

12/01/21 Automation Concern One – 'We can’t automate panel design because almost every...

It’s true, a lot of the time control panels are one-offs. However, even the most unique control panels contain fixed or...

15/12/20 The top 5 blogs of 2020!

As we prepare to say goodbye to 2020, a year which none of us could have predicted, it seems the perfect time to...

6/08/20 EPLAN and Rittal add value for LCA Group.

LCA Group was acquired in 2017 and right from the start the management team identified a need for furthering the...