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When the best solution is a standard one

When companies are planning and building new data centres, the crucial question is whether a customised design planned from scratch or a standardised solution is better. Elbe Kliniken Stade-Buxtehude GmbH chose a standardised solution for good reason –...

Keeping tunnels lit in an emergency

Speeding into a tunnel at 300 km/h in an ICE (InterCity Express) train is always an experience. Even though the train is well sealed, you can still feel the pressure wave. A tunnel’s safety technology needs to withstand huge stresses, as does the...

Data needs space

How can our industry handle the pressure to become more efficient and productive, while at the same time mastering the energy transition? How can it get to grips with the skills shortage and at the same time – or even because of that – implement digital...

From fan to security guide

Fan-and-filter units are the most commonly used climate control solution. They offer a cost-effective alternative to cooling units in all sorts of scenarios where the ambient air can be used to regulate the temperature in the enclosure. Despite this,...

Boosting efficiency

To ensure everything runs smoothly, the technology on board freight ships must be absolutely reliable. However, the greatest challenges for plant engineers are currently external – supply bottlenecks and rising costs are increasing the pressure to be...

When the best solution is a standard one

When companies are planning and building new data centres, the crucial question is whether a customised design planned from scratch or a standardised solution is better. Elbe Kliniken Stade-Buxtehude GmbH chose a standardised solution for good reason –...

It’s all about the digital twin

You don’t need a crystal ball to see into the (near) future of panel building and switchgear manufacturing. All you need to do is visit the Siemens Systems Engineering Plant (WKC) in Chemnitz. Each year, the WKC builds around 21,000 control panels and...

Active protection

The lights suddenly go out at the logistics centre of an online mail order company. The package sorting equipment, storage and retrieval systems, conveying units and picking stations are without power. Everything has ground to a halt – it’s a nightmare...

How to ramp up speed

In mechanical and plant engineering the primary focus has long since shifted away from being “just” on product quality. It’s all about the process. It has to be simpler, more efficient and, most importantly, faster. The only way to achieve that is by...

TH Lübeck – a fully thought-through charging infrastructure

The energy revolution is decentralised and is taking place in distribution grids. The “Department for Electromobility and Power Electronics” at the Technical University of Applied Sciences Lübeck (TH Lübeck) is researching how charging infrastructures...

Using a robot in biology lessons

Fiona has cancer. That’s why a little white robot is now going to school for her every day. The 15-year-old can use her tablet to connect to the so-called ‘telepresence avatar’ from the hospital or at home, and so take part in lessons and even talk to...

AuCom opts for automation with Eplan and Rittal

Can it be done in nine months? Nine months to build and supply 400 switchgear units containing soft starters for electric motors for one of the biggest infrastructure projects in Egypt – imagine doing that just two years after launching your own...