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Industrie 4.0 in Control Panel Production: Capitalizing the Potential of Digitization 4

 

The placing on the market of electrical components, in this case a main low-voltage distribution board, within the European Union is regulated in the Low Voltage Directive 2014/35 / EU, among others. An important standard for compliance with the Low Voltage Directive 2014/35 / EU is IEC 61439-1: 2011. According to IEC 61439-1: 2011, the low-voltage main distribution boards (Inc > 1600 A / Icc > 17 kA) must be type-tested with regard to the heating limits and short-circuit strength (property test).

In order to be able to supply our customers with a CE-compliant low-voltage main distribution board, we use type-tested systems from EATON, Rittal and VAMOCON.

With these systems we have the right solution for every requirement.

  • Type of mounting: Fixed mounted / plug-in system / withdrawable
  • Functions: Incoming feeder / coupling / outgoing feeder / reactive power compensation / Motor Control Center (MCC) (full-withdrawable)
  • Panel width: 400 mm – 1200 mm
  • Panel height: 2000 mm – 2200 mm
  • Panel depth: 400 mm – 1025 mm
  • Internal separation: form 1 – form 4b
  • Protection class: IP2X – IP55
  • Circuit breaker brands: ABB, EATON, Siemens, Schneider Electric

 

  • Nominal current: up to 5000 A
  • Rated short-circuit
  • withstand current: up to 100 kA (Icw (1s))

 

  • Passive arc fault protection criterion 1-6 acc. to IEC 61641

 

The low-voltage main distribution boards need to be manufactured according to the exact specifications of the original manufacturer (EATON, Rittal or VAMOCON). For easy use of the individual systems, we created three-dimensional macro templates with EPLAN Pro Panel and the Copper module. With these three-dimensional macro templates, we plan the low-voltage main distribution boards and generate all necessary manufacturing documents from the EPLAN Pro Panel program.

The manufacturing documents contain all important information for the mechanical production

  • Mounting location (copper bar, transformer, circuit breaker, etc.)
  • Dimensions of the copper bars
  • Position of the mounting holes (diagram (M8/M10/M12))
  • Position and degree of bending (connection lug)
  • Cross section of the copper bar

The three-dimensional construction planning accurate to a millimeter saves us valuable time in mechanical production. In addition, we can provide our customers with precise information for his building / container planning already at tendering process.

 

In our next post we will show you our QR documentation.

To be continued …

 

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