SPS Connect 24.11. - 14:00 - 14:20
The future of switch cabinet construction
In this presentation, three experts from Rittal, Eplan and Phoenix Contact will explain how digitalization is changing engineering and manufacturing processes.
Dr. Andreas Schreiber, Business Unit Manager in the Industrial Cabinet Solutions division at Phoenix Contact, Jan-Henry Schall, Head of Technical Training & Rittal Innovation Center at Rittal and Phillip Falkenhagen, Product Manager Value Chain & Digitalization at Eplan, welcome you to the presentation on "The future of enclosure construction".
Date: November 24, SPS Connect 24.11. - 14:00 - 14:20
About the speakers
Jan-Henry Schall successfully completed his training as an energy electronics technician specializing in operating technology at Maschinenbau Schwab in Bischofsheim/Rhön in 1993. He worked there as an energy electronics technician in special machine construction until 1999.
In 2000, he passed the master craftsman's examination in electrical engineering at the Chamber of Crafts for Lower Franconia in Würzburg and was then responsible for setting up and managing the control technology department for dosing systems at Brand in Wertheim until 2002.
Until 2008, he was Head of Concept and Proposal Development with Key Customer Consulting for automation solutions in all industries at Trips in Grafenrheinfeld and later Branch Manager of Trips Automation in Singapore.
Since the end of 2018, he has held various management positions in strategic product management, complexity and variant management, value added chain, Rittal Innovation Center at Rittal in Herborn.
Since October 2020, Jan-Henry Schall has been Head of the Technical Training & Rittal Innovation Center department in the Technical Support Center at Rittal.
Dr. Andreas Schreiber is Business Unit Manager in the Industrial Cabinet Solutions division at Phoenix Contact.
© Phoenix ContactDr. Andreas Schreiber studied electrical engineering and information technology at RWTH Aachen University until 2005. Until 2010, he was a research assistant at the Institute for Plastics Processing at RWTH Aachen University and wrote his doctoral thesis on process control in injection molding.
He has been working at Phoenix Contact in Blomberg since 2010, initially in various management positions in the areas of mechanical engineering, technology development, production-related IT and data and configuration management.
Since 2018, he has been Head of the Industrial Cabinet Solutions business unit at Phoenix Contact with a focus on optimizing the process chain in enclosure construction through lean methods, digitalization and automation.
Phillip Falkenhagen successfully completed his Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering and Management at the University of Bayreuth in 2012, specializing in Technology & Innovation Management. He completed his Bachelor's degree at the Ruhr West University of Applied Sciences in 2016, also specializing in energy systems and renewable energies in the field of industrial engineering, and successfully completed his Master's degree in 2017.
In 2018, he joined Eplan as a trainee with a focus on sales and product management.
Since 2019, he has been Product Manager "Value Chain & Digitalization" with a focus on the value chain in the group of companies, business modeling and conceptual design of future concepts in switchgear construction.
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