Even before summertime hits, we have already seen some good BBQ weather, with the mercury rising and letting us enjoy the great outdoors. Great for you, but it doesn’t bode as well for your electrical equipment. Here Karl Lycett, Rittal UK’s Product Manager for Climate Control has discussed why keeping on top of climate control is key.

Rittal and Stulz have entered into a global partnership, with immediate effect. As a result, the two companies will be better equipped to offer customers end-to-end, tailored solutions to their needs. Rittal’s broad IT infrastructure portfolio will now be combined with liquid-based closed-circuit chillers, free-cooling products, side chillers and indoor chillers from Stulz. Rittal’s contribution includes IT enclosures, IT cooling unit...

Baying enclosures are frequently employed for free-standing use cases – but are not always the best approach. The advantages of stand-alone enclosures such as the Rittal VX SE have sometimes been overlooked. This represents a best-of-both-worlds solution midway between Rittal AX compact enclosures and the VX25 baying portfolio.

Effective February 1st, 2021, Professor Friedhelm Loh, Owner and CEO of the Friedhelm Loh Group, appointed Markus Asch (49) as CEO of Rittal International and Chairman of the Management Board of Rittal.

Almost without exception, industrial environments are hostile spaces for electrical equipment; their components don’t react well to high levels of moisture, dust, and heat in the atmosphere. This sensitivity, in turn, affects plant efficiency and will ultimately lower output and profitability. But moisture, dust and heat don’t need to be a concern provided you implement an effective industrial enclosure cooling solution for your ...

Most people envisage the traditional setting for IT equipment as a cavernous data centre, housing large numbers of racks with flashing LED lights, all contained within a sterile environment specially designed to protect the delicate internal electrical components. By Karl Lycett – Rittal UK’s Product Manager for Climate Control

Rittal was approached by Powerfish, a Scottish-based panel builder and electrical engineering business, with a brief to design and deliver robust, flexible, and easy-to-install panels for a renewable energy customer. The VX25 Ri4Power panels were the result.

Rittal’s Liquid Cooling Package Industry (LCP Industry) has been protecting critical equipment in industrial spaces for many years, ensuring sensitive electrical components are kept within their optimal operating conditions. By Karl Lycett, Rittal UK’s Product Manager for Climate Control

HD Enclosures for switchgear and electrical equipment are vital across the manufacturing and engineering sectors including food and beverage production companies. The design of these enclosures needs to take account of their location; for food production lines, this means ensuring very high hygiene standards can be maintainede

Rittal has introduced its new AX compact enclosure and KX small enclosure ranges. Each are designed to offer customers both consistent data delivery and a myriad of other benefits, including a 30% reduction in assembly time, 30% more space for cables and no less than 30 new features.  

With its new VX IT rack system, Rittal has presented a newly developed modular system for server and network racks. This allows IT infrastructures to be set up with previously unattained speed – ranging from individual network racks to complete data centres.

The Secure Edge Data Centre (SEDC) is an all-in-one plug and play industrial data centre solution specifically designed to run in industrial environments, bringing enterprise-grade IT capacity closer to the point of data collection and machine control.

Upgrading or replacing existing electrical equipment enclosures can be an expensive business given that new enclosures can easily cost several thousand pounds, Rittal has made specifying climate control equipment easy.

The Rittal Configuration System (RiCS) is a new user-friendly design tool, for error-free accessory configurations of compact and small enclosures. The process is  fast and streamlined, Rittal claims that it is estimated it can reduce the time it takes for a user to choose, configure and purchase a compact enclosure by up to 95%.

Small or compact enclosures from Rittal protect sensitive control electronics systems across the globe, building from this Rittal has recently completely revised its product range, focusing on the opportunities and demands arising from digitalisation.

Rittal has launched its new AX and KX compact enclosure range, details of which will be on show at Drives & Controls 2020. The AX and KX enclosures are both embedded with digital processes, delivering simpler, faster assembly and component installation, greater flexibility and enhanced safety. 

The key attributes of an IT rack include being easy to order, meet current standards, provide a safe environment for servers and other equipment, be modifiable at no great cost, and have an optimum price/performance ratio. The Rittal TS IT Rack and its accessory options, aim to tick all these boxes.  By Clive Partridge, Rittal Technical Manager, IT Infrastructure

For any business the need to increase IT flexibility, boost corporate agility and lower operational costs are all critical factors to future success at Data Centre World 2020, visitors will see Rittal’s advanced IT infrastructures and streamlined processes are designed to drive business competitiveness, alongside solutions to help companies stay abreast of global innovation.

The volumes of data that now need to be processed are soaring as a consequence of digital transformation, so companies need a quick and easy solution for establishing new data centres directly, where that data is generated.  By Clive Partridge, Rittal technical manager for IT Infrastructure

A report from the Health and Safety Executive in 2018 estimated that 6.6 million working days were lost in the UK in 2017/18 due to work related musculoskeletal disorders. This accounts for nearly a quarter (24%) of all working days lost due to work related ill-health in the UK, with an average of 14 days lost in each case. By Paresh Kansara, Rittal’s Product Manager for Industrial & Outdoor Enclosures