Control cabinet building

Join us in shaping your control cabinet production to be as efficient as possible. We are your partner for the holistic optimization of your value chain in control and switchgear engineering.
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Discover the potential for efficient working in your control cabinet building system

There is enormous potential for greater efficiency in control cabinet building. Every single process step, from engineering to the finished control cabinet, offers the opportunity to improve processes and save time and costs. Discover our modular and scalable solutions for efficient control cabinet building. In addition, Phoenix Contact provides you with innovative products for all the functional areas of the control cabinet. This means that we can provide you with support throughout the entire control cabinet building process. Find out more about the potentials within the individual process steps and gain an overview of our products, solutions, and services.

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Process consulting Partnership-based and sustainable optimization of your process

Phoenix Contact’s approach to working in partnership enables you to draw upon individual consulting services to optimize your value chain in control cabinet building using practice-oriented lean production methods. This allows significant savings through processes that can be implemented rapidly with little financial outlay. The consulting services are based on years of experience with the methods and include a comprehensive range of consulting activities and training programs for employees.

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Service Reliable support tailored to your needs

We will be by your side throughout the entire process of control cabinet production. Benefit from individual service packages and customized product services tailored to your requirements and processes. Our expert service team will support you with services such as the installation and setup of software and equipment, training in operation, and maintenance and repair. This means that we can support you in the error-free implementation of your processes, simplifying your day-to-day work.

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Every day with passion for more efficiency in control cabinet building

Driving control cabinet building forward

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Control cabinet manufacturers are faced with particular challenges in terms of the cost-effectiveness of their processes. It is often very difficult or even impossible to influence external conditions, such as the delivery capability of suppliers, their pricing policies, and the shortage of skilled workers. This is different with in-house production. Here, significant increases in efficiency can often be achieved through process optimization, the use of end-to-end software and interface solutions, through to auxiliary and automatic tools, marking systems, and assistance solutions.

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The whole world is talking about an impending shortage of skilled workers. In some areas, depending on the field, there is already a shortage of qualified workers today. Experts estimate that there will be a shortage of more than 80 million workers on the market worldwide by 2030. The machine and control cabinet building sector is being hit particularly hard. We provide our customers with support in setting up their production to be future-proof and efficient: with digitally supported workflows and manufacturing documents to reduce production times and avoid errors.

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Optimized cooperation between planning and manufacturing can significantly reduce production times in control cabinet building. The prerequisites for this are the continuous flow of data, complete item data, and seamless system interfaces. Our engineering software ensures these digital and seamless processes from planning, through procurement, right through to manufacturing. Continuous data flow and intelligent functions contribute significantly to increasing efficiency and provide individual and convenient process support.

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Regardless of whether your control cabinet building process involves a high degree of standardization or you tend to manufacture in a batch size of 1, make the best possible use of your potential in terms of cost-effectiveness and flexibility. Whether process-supporting worker assistance systems, ergonomic hand tools and automatic tools, easy-to-use marking solutions, or seamless software solutions, we will support you throughout your entire process with modularly combinable and individually scalable concepts.

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The necessary expansion and modernization of the power grid for the All Electric Society requires 16 million kilometers of new, digitalized network infrastructure. One essential factor for achieving this kind of network development involves control cabinets. We assume that around 5.5 million control cabinets will have to be produced and installed by 2030 for this network expansion alone. In order for you to be able to master and serve the increasing order volume in the future as well, Phoenix Contact has set itself the goal of making control cabinet building as efficient as possible.

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Products and solutions for efficient control cabinet building


Overview of marking systems and software for industrial identification

Mark

Our product recommendations for simple and durable industrial identification in every application area:

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Assemble and install

Our product recommendations for optimizing your production system and for more order and clarity at the workplace:

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Software

Our software solutions for control cabinet building create digital and seamless processes – from planning, through procurement, right through to production. Continuous data flow, intelligent functions, and high-performance ECAD interfaces contribute significantly to increasing efficiency.
In addition to our engineering, marking, and configuration software, the portfolio also includes worker assistance software for terminal strip assembly and semi-automated wire preparation.