Problem solved: unnecessary downtime due to poorly maintained control cabinet

Cluttered control cabinets create unnecessary risks and, in the worst cases, fire. A serious threat of downtime in your production. A safe and well maintained control cabinet ensures optimal production processes with minimal downtime. It is therefore essential to keep control cabinets orderly. Our experience shows disorganised control cabinets in 80% of our visits.

What are the risks of an untidy control cabinet?

A disorganised control cabinet can lead to unnecessary downtime. Failures can occur due to a wide range of causes. These include insufficient maintenance, failure to tighten screw clamps, metal parts that do not belong in the control cabinet and accumulation of dust, which can even lead to a fire hazard. Our field service engineers can advise you on how to make your control cabinet tidy and safe. This significantly reduces the risk of downtime!

Putting tidiness on your company's radar

We see it as our job to create awareness among manufacturing companies of the potential risks of not keeping control cabinets orderly. When our field service engineers come by for a cleaning or inventory, they also perform an inspection. Based on this inspection, they can provide advice.

During an inspection, our field service engineers check things such as:

• Are all cables between components properly connected and of the correct length?
• What is the general state of cleanliness of your control cabinet?
• Are all communication cables and motor power cables earthed, as well as electronic modules such as drives, PLC and remote IO modules?

Your control cabinet as good as new again

During a visit by our field service engineers, we assess the situation. This inspection is followed by advice, after which we can ensure that your control cabinets are restored to good as new condition. All cables neatly back in the cable ducts, connections put in order and all documentation organised in holders in the right places. The control cabinet contents are also cleaned using a special ESD-safe vacuum cleaner. All electronic modules are also surface cleaned by this vacuum cleaner. Going forward, you will again have safe control cabinets, electronics will wear out less quickly and the risk of malfunctions will be significantly reduced.

What can you do to get a safe and well maintained control cabinet?

Would you like to make a start on cleaning up your control cabinets yourself? Periodic maintenance checks are the perfect time for that. Aspects to include are:

• Dirty dust filters; these are easy to spot on the outside and are good indicators of the status of the interior of the control cabinet.
• Documentation loose in the control cabinet; important documents are essential to the overview and maintenance of a control cabinet. If not kept in a holder, there is a risk of pages going missing or even damage to components and modules.

Will you soon be among the 20% of companies that do have their control cabinets in order? A tidy control cabinet significantly reduces the risk of downtime. Problem solved!