nVent SCHROFF GmbH is a German manufacturer of electronic packaging products. nVent SCHROFF products include cabinets, housings, chassis and related components for multiple markets such as telecommunications, data centers and traffic management. nVent SCHROFF GmbH is headquartered in Straubenhardt near Pforzheim, and was founded in 1962 by Gunther Schroff. It is now part of the UK-based company nVent Electric plc. nVent employs 9,000 people worldwide of which about 1,500 are part of the brand Schroff. The company runs in accordance with the ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 standards and is certified to OSHAS 18001. Schroff is one of the largest employers in the Karlsruhe/Pforzheim region.

History

In the early years Schroff only manufactured power supplies. By the mid-1960s the Schroff Europac Rack was the outstanding product of the 19 inch division. Rapid acceptance of Schroff electronic packaging products in the major electronics markets of the U.S. and Japan made Schroff the standard for electronic design. Through its participation in international standardization groups such as the IEC, Schroff was the pioneer of 19-inch cabinets, and also for the standard dimensions of the rack unit (RU) and division unit (TE). Schroff was part of British conglomerate

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from 1994 until 2018. On April 30, 2018 Pentair split into two companies, and Schroff became part of the British conglomerate nVent Electric plc.

Development

A large portion of the products that Schroff manufactures are customer-specific. This led to the creation of integration and manufacturing centers specifically to address customized products. Groups such as Front Panel Express, were created work with extremely short lead times.

Production and Competence Centers

The main work of the Straubenhardt facility is administration, development, metal processing, special tool manufacture, painting, plating, the manufacture and assembly of electronics components.

Schroff Locations

In addition to production in Straubenhardt, Schroff has other production facilities in France and Poland as well as sales and integration centers worldwide.

Production

As of June 2018

Sales and Integration Centers

*Schroff UK Ltd. in England *Schroff Scandinavia AB in Sweden and

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

*Schroff S.R.L. in Italy *Schroff GmbH/S.p.z.o.o. in

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

*Hoffman Schroff Pte. Ltd. in

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

*Schroff K.K. in

Yokohama is the second-largest city in Japan by population and the most populous municipality of Japan. It is the capital city and the most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a 2020 population of 3.8 million. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of To ...

, Japan. Other manufacturing and solution centers owned by

in the United States, Mexico,

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

, China, India and

Markets

Schroff, with its cabinets, cases and racks is established in the following markets: *

Telecommunications Telecommunication is the transmission of information by various types of technologies over wire, radio, optical, or other electromagnetic systems. It has its origin in the desire of humans for communication over a distance greater than that fe ...

Automation Automation describes a wide range of technologies that reduce human intervention in processes, namely by predetermining decision criteria, subprocess relationships, and related actions, as well as embodying those predeterminations in machines ...

Measurement Measurement is the quantification of attributes of an object or event, which can be used to compare with other objects or events. In other words, measurement is a process of determining how large or small a physical quantity is as compared ...

, control and regulation technology *Data and

network Network, networking and networked may refer to: Science and technology * Network theory, the study of graphs as a representation of relations between discrete objects * Network science, an academic field that studies complex networks Mathematics ...

technology *

Defense Defense or defence may refer to: Tactical, martial, and political acts or groups * Defense (military), forces primarily intended for warfare * Civil defense, the organizing of civilians to deal with emergencies or enemy attacks * Defense industr ...

technology and aviation *

Railway Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

and

Traffic Traffic comprises pedestrians, vehicles, ridden or herded animals, trains, and other conveyances that use public ways (roads) for travel and transportation. Traffic laws govern and regulate traffic, while rules of the road include traffic ...

technology

Product Range

*Industrial, electronic, networking, and server cabinets for indoor and outdoor applications *19" table and tower cases, 19" racks, and enclosures, wall cases *Front panels, plug-in modules, subracks and printed circuit boards *Power supplies for measurement and control technology *Climate control such as 19" fan trays, 19" blowers, filtered fans, heaters,

heat exchanger A heat exchanger is a system used to transfer heat between a source and a working fluid. Heat exchangers are used in both cooling and heating processes. The fluids may be separated by a solid wall to prevent mixing or they may be in direct contac ...

s, cooling devices *Racks and systems such as

AdvancedTCA Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA or AdvancedTCA) is the largest specification effort in the history of the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG), with more than 100 companies participating. Known as AdvancedTC ...

AdvancedMC Advanced Mezzanine Cards are printed circuit boards (PCBs) that follow a specification of the PCI Industrial Computers Manufacturers Group (PICMG). Known as AdvancedMC or AMC, the official specification designation is AMC.''x''. Originally AMC wa ...

MicroTCA MicroTCA (short for ''Micro Telecommunications Computing Architecture'', also: μTCA) is a modular, open standard, created and maintained by the PCI Industrial Computer Manufacturers Group (PICMG). It provides the electrical, mechanical, thermal an ...

CompactPCI CompactPCI is a computer bus interconnect for industrial computers, combining a Eurocard-type connector and PCI signaling and protocols. Boards are standardized to 3 U or 6U sizes, and are typically interconnected via a passive backplane. The ...

VMEbus VMEbus (Versa Module Europa or Versa Module Eurocard bus) is a computer bus standard, originally developed for the Motorola 68000 line of CPUs, but later widely used for many applications and standardized by the IEC as ANSI/IEEE 1014-1987. I ...

, VME64x bus and

disk drive Disk storage (also sometimes called drive storage) is a general category of storage mechanisms where data is recorded by various electronic, magnetic, optical, or mechanical changes to a surface layer of one or more rotating disks. A disk drive is ...

units *

Backplanes A backplane (or "backplane system") is a group of electrical connectors in parallel with each other, so that each pin of each connector is linked to the same relative pin of all the other connectors, forming a computer bus. It is used as a back ...

, test adapters, and power strips for electronics industry

Education

Since the late 1960s, Schroff has invested in the education and training of its employees for development of team skills, presentation skills, and product knowledge. More than 30 trainees are currently employed by Schroff. Trained professionals are the following *Diploma - Business Administration (BA) of the Department of Industry *Diploma - Engineering / f (BA) of the Department of Electrical Engineering *Diploma - Engineering / f (BA) of the Department of Mechatronics *Electronics engineer for equipment and systems *Industrial business *Industrial business with the additional skill of External Trade Assistant *Computer science specialist *Industrial mechanic *Construction mechanic *Tools mechanic *Engineering draftsperson *Specialist for Warehouse Logistics *Schroff works together for BA-training with the Cooperative Education Karlsruhe.

References

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