Company Name: Weidmuller Interface (Shanghai)Co.ltd
Project Name: Weidmüller Workplace Solution
Award Category: Innovation Sustainable Product
Product / Service Introduction
Weidmüller Workplace Solution - optimize your panel building workshop processes with perfectly coordinated solutions for every phase of your production chain.
Waste Reduction: Weidmüller achieves green and low-carbon paperless production by digitally transforming the entire process through software penetration. Meanwhile, the company’s standardized, automated, and integrated tools and equipment help customers significantly reduce waste in production.
Minimizing Inventory/Overproduction Waste: Weidmüller provides an integrated, automated, and standardized workplace solution designed to enhance your production workflow, guaranteeing precise material delivery to production sites and accurate production planning.
Minimizing Unnecessary Waiting and Processing Waste: WMC, the Weidmüller workplace solution software, can help you greatly reduce design time during the design phase. With the help of software including WMC, M-Print PRO, and WPC, data could be transferred to all the equipment at every stage within one-click, significantly reducing unnecessary waiting time and ensuring smooth transitions at every stage of design and production.
Minimizing the Waste of Defective Products: Manual processes are prone to errors and mistakes, but digitalized data transmission can significantly reduce defect rates.
Increasing Efficiency: From planning and installation to operation of electrical cabinets, the Weidmüller workplace solution ensures seamless transitions between each stage, resulting in efficiency gains of up to 80%, providing 100% planning reliability.
Sustainable Development:
The Weidmüller workplace solution is applicable to production processes in various industries, making it highly versatile and sustainable for all customers.
The modular nature of the Weidmüller workplace solution allows production sites to choose a combination of modules based on their own situation and application needs. If upgrades are required, they can be upgraded and optimized within the original selected modules, thus achieving sustainable development.
Explanation of Circular Economy Practice
The study “Panel building 4.0“ by the Institute for Control Engineering of Machine Tools and Manufacturing Units of the University of Stuttgart shows that the most time consuming phases in classic panel building are planning and installation.
More precisely: The steps of project planning and circuit diagram construction account for more than 50 % of the time spent on the entire planning process. During installation, the complex combination of manual processes usually required for mechanical assembly and wiring account for over 70 % of the time spent on the assembly process!
Interruptions in data flow from manual alterations increase the risk of errors being introduced. This can have significant consequences on the required production time.
Weidmüller Workplace Solution offers digital data consistency and seamless marking of all panel components simplify and speed up maintenance work. This helps reduce downtime and increases the operating efficiency of your processes.
Eliminating manual work steps through digital data reduces the risk of errors and guarantees access to existing templates at all times. This ensures the complete documentation of the individual production steps—from planning through to commissioning of the fully and clearly marked panel.
Greater productivity in the workshop: a portfolio of complete Workplace Solutions, with which each work step perfectly combines with the next, enabling processes to be up to 80 % faster whilst delivering 100 % planning reliability.
Weidmüller not only pursues the goals of energy and environmental management internally, but also offers customers and partners sustainable products and solutions such as RoHS, REACH, WEEE.
Overview of Product/Service Lifecycle
Product Design:
Using M-Print® PRO, planning software WPC tool and WMC data is gathered digitally from the beginning of the process and made available for all subsequent steps. The plausibility check of the Weidmüller software prevents errors in planning that cost a lot of time and money during installation.…
Production:
By accessing the data created during the planning phase, the error rate is significantly reduced, as no information is lost between the individual work steps and manual processing is not required. Besides, Weidmüller professional portfolio enables you to save time and ensure safe assembly.
Useage:
Thanks to digital data continuity, you receive a clearly marked panel. In addition, the comprehensive documentation speeds up commissioning and maintenance work, since each production step can be traced and configurations can also be reproduced easily when required.
Recycling and Recovery:
Weidmüller operates an environmental management system certified to ISO 14001 and an energy management system certified to ISO 50001. Weidmüller not only pursues the goals of energy and environmental management internally, but also offers customers and partners sustainable products and solutions such as RoHS, REACH, WEEE.
More Product / Service Highlights
Weidmüller Workplace Solution is not a single product, but a solution with professional software and comprehensive portfolio. We can offer modular solution for each customer base on their status, from low to high volume in various industry. Furthermore, we can offer a basic solution as a first step, then upgrade it according to customers business situation. Which means, Weidmüller Workplace Solution can offer customer both flexibility and stability.
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