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Designing a switchboard for a fishing trawler

16/12/2021

When NU-Design Limited, a marine electrical services business based in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland needed help in the designing of a very specific control centre specification, the company’s engineers contacted Rittal UK.

The ABC of milling

01/12/2021

Milling, drilling, thread tapping – there are very few switchgear manufacturers who love metalworking. Fortunately, there is a solution! Automated machining centres such as the Perforex MT can help. The following three tips show how it can be used to its full advantage.

What do you need from the enclosure in food processing or pharmaceutical environments?

01/12/2021

If your equipment is going to be installed in a manufacturing area where maintaining hygiene standards and avoiding contamination are arguably the two most critical requirements (food processing and pharmaceutical manufacturing are two obvious examples), the enclosure will play a key part.

Using absence of voltage testers during maintenance

01/12/2021

Electrical enclosures commonly found in industrial facilities can contain high voltages, ranging from 110 or 220 line voltage to many hundreds of volts. Regulations covering these enclosures require the verification of an absence of high voltages inside before any updates, repair, or maintenance work can begin.

Outdoor enclosures: The unsung heroes

06/10/2021

Outdoor enclosures, the ones you see beside the road, on the pavement, trackside on the railways, the ones you walk past every day without giving them a second thought, these metal boxes, more often than not, contain highly critical equipment that is fundamental to our everyday life.

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Designing a switchboard for a fishing trawler

The ABC of milling

What do you need from the enclosure in food processing or pharmaceutical environments?

Using absence of voltage testers during maintenance

Outdoor enclosures: The unsung heroes