New Manufacturing Spaces in German Headquarters
The rapidly increasing demand for Beckhoff components and system solutions made it necessary to expand the production capacities at the company headquarters in Germany. With the construction of a new production hall (2500 m2) and the establishment of a service and logistics center (1200 m2), the space available will increase to a total of over 10,000 m2 . The new facilities will enable continued growth of the company.
Hans Beckhoff, Managing Director of Beckhoff Industrie Elektronik, gives the following reasons for the expansion: “Due to the rapid increase in turnover and the number of items produced, the expansion of our production capacities was urgently needed, possibly even a little overdue. We now have some room for maneuver over the next couple of years. Plans for the long-term future are also in hand: An industrial site with an area of 33,000 m2 very close to the current location has already been purchased, and plans for a further expansion by 12,000 m2 usable floor space for management, research and production are being drawn up.”
Hans Beckhoff emphasizes: “We are expecting further significant growth rates. Last year, for example, we produced approximately 5,000 Industrial PCs. With the expansion in manufacturing facilities, production is intended to increase to more than 10,000 Industrial PCs per year”.
Another highlight of the new production hall is intelligent building control via the “Beckhoff Building Automation” system. All building functions such as lighting, temperature or window blind control are operated via web pages on the workstation PC. The Beckhoff Bus Terminal Controllers (BC9000) with Ethernet interface are responsible for the data acquisition of approx. 1.500 I/O points. Communication with the higher-level PC controller is via the standard Ethernet network.