Rittal's recommendation for 2020: be ready for the summer!

Rittal's climate control team will be on hand at Drives & Controls 2020 (Stand 610) to discuss your enclosure cooling systems. A quick review in spring, while temperatures are still low, could mean you have lots more time to do more useful tasks as things warm up.

In winter and early spring, you probably spend considerably less time thinking about enclosure climate control systems than in the summer. Not surprisingly perhaps - when the outside temperatures dip, you're much less likely to be responding to the alarms from your cooling systems.

But in fact, right now is the best time of year to turn your mind to your enclosures and carry out a climate review in order to understand what changes or improvements need to be made.

During the summer, of course, everything is very different, particularly if you rely on fan and filter cooling. These are of little help when the ambient temperatures in your workplace are higher than you want inside your enclosures! So, take some time over winter to assess your enclosures and make whatever changes are needed to ensure that, when temperatures do rise, you are free to spend your time on more useful tasks than simply firefighting.

It's important to remember that every degree above your set-point will be time removed from the life of your expensive equipment, including PLCs, variable speed drives and transformers. Collectively, this can easily have a replacement value that tops 100,000, even in a relatively small setup. If you replace only 2 per cent of that equipment each year because of burnt-out componentry, then the costs can quickly mount up and it is an entirely unnecessary spend.

But it's not just the cost of repair and replacement of the actual componentry. There are also the add-on operations costs caused by componentry breaking down and stopping the processes it controls. This lost output will continue for as long as it takes to repair the fault, and is bound to have consequences for your wider business, impacting productivity and efficiency, and thereby reducing profits.

Correct climate control is often overlooked during the installation of electronic equipment because the focus is all on the equipment, not on regulating the environment that it operates within. This is where Rittal can help you; the company is a world leader in enclosure climate control products and pride themselves on being a trusted advisor.

With the RiAssure service, a trained staff member can visit you and provide a FREE Cooling Review. This review is a short visual inspection of your existing enclosures and cooling equipment; from this Rittal can ascertain the next best step for your equipment and also provide ongoing, best practice, suggestions so that your operations benefit from increased longevity, life and profit.

So, make this your best-ever resolution in 2020 and reap the benefits of the optimising your climate control. For more information visit www.rittal.co.uk, or to arrange a FREE cooling review, go online, call the customer service team on 01709 704000, or email [email protected] (please mention MachineBuilding.net).

You can discuss how to optimise your climate control, and many other issues, with Rittal's expert team at this year's Drives & Controls Exhibition, Stand D610 (NEC Birmingham, 21-23 April 2020).