Cooperations with a future

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For trans­former man­u­fac­tur­ers, it’s cur­rent­ly all about get­ting fit for the future. “The dig­i­tal­iza­tion of trans­form­ers is the key to this,” says Sebas­t­ian Hilmer, who heads a team of six spe­cial­ists as Head of Coop­er­a­tions at Rein­hausen. The team focus­es exclu­sive­ly on sup­port­ing OEMs in the devel­op­ment of intel­li­gent trans­form­ers. The basis for each indi­vid­ual solu­tion is the ETOS® open automa­tion solu­tion based on the ISM® plat­form.

“We help OEMs to stand out from the com­pe­ti­tion.”

Sebas­t­ian Hilmer, Head of Coop­er­a­tions

The advance of the ener­gy tran­si­tion is mak­ing grids increas­ing­ly volatile while, at the same time, the infra­struc­ture is aging. Since the pres­sure on man­u­fac­tur­ers in terms of per­for­mance, reli­a­bil­i­ty and oper­at­ing costs is increas­ing, in the future, it will be increas­ingly impor­tant to get the most out of the fleet. “Now is the right time for small­er and medi­um-sized trans­former man­ufacturers in par­tic­u­lar to invest in their future,” Hilmer explains. To this end, MR has devel­oped the ISM® dri­ve and dig­i­tal­iza­tion solu­tion as an open, man­u­fac­tur­er-inde­pen­dent plat­form, and also pro­vides sup­port in engineering,design and process man­age­ment. Hilmer­con­tin­ues: “As a part­ner, we thus pave the way for OEMs to clear­ly stand out from the com­pe­ti­tion with their own intel­li­gent trans­form­ers, there­by improv­ing their mar­ket posi­tions.”

Open Operating System for the Transformer oft he Future

The team responds to the needs of the OEMs and devel­ops solu­tions tai­lored to them. For exam­ple, the OEM is free to use the coop­er­a­tion to intro­duce its own mon­i­tor­ing sys­tem “dig­i­tal­ized by ISM®” to the mar­ket or to expand its in-house mon­i­tor­ing sys­tem with the MR oper­at­ing sys­tem. Sebas­t­ian Hilmer says: “The switch to an intel­li­gent trans­former is thus quite sim­ple. We offer every­thing it takes: soft­ware, hard­ware and process sup­port.”