Deliver solutions on growing needs, HARTING China commences new Regional Competence Service Centre to deliver customised solutions
Recognised the growing and complex markets demand of the Asia railway market, HARTING China has opened a new Regional Competence Service Centre in Zhuhai, further untap its competence of providing the HARTING Customised Solutions (HCS) to the customers.
“Aligning with our company vision of shaping the future with the technology for people and also responding the growing demand with individualised solutions for the railway industry, we open this new Regional Competence Service Centre in Zhuhai today,” said Christian Schumacher, Managing Director of HARTING Customised Solutions (HCS), “Renowned for the dedication to precision, function and creativity, Germany’s engineering has always been highly reputed throughout the world. While China is now the forerunner of carrying out the latest tech and innovations, we think this new centre is the perfect combination of showcasing the best of both expertise.”
Schumacher together with Marcus Göttig, General Manager of HARTING Zhuhai, welcomed over 80 guests from Asia in Zhuhai together with Matthias Wiehe, Head of Global Project Engineering for the opening of the new Regional Competence Service Centre. Key note speaker Matthias Wiehe, Head of Global Project Engineering underlined the importance of the regional setup. The Regional Competence Service Centre provides custom solutions tailor towards the railway industry, supports the products and solutions design, product testing and inspection. This new facility underlines HARTING’s strong commitment for the railway industry customers coupled with professional design, testing and manufacturing capabilities in the areas of jumper cable systems, junction box, unmanaged ethernet switch and power, data & signal connectivity. “Advances in technology combined with quality manufacturing, HARTING has been providing strong support to the China and Asia markets for years. With this new centre, it further strengthens our position of delivering solutions that provide real added value.” Wiehe adds.
Wide range of products for the railway industry
For years, HARTING is dedicated to the transportation industry and understands this highly specialised industry sector requires customised solutions. Combining with the extensive range of products and the years of experience and expertise, the HARTING Customised Solutions can implement individualised solutions based on various needs. As the manufacturing hub in Asia, the HARTING Zhuhai plant manufactures a broad range of products for the railway industry, including the jumper cable, junction box, Han® HPR and Han® B, also the Han® connectors, the industrial rectangular connector which stands for the worldwide.
Jumper cable delivers solutions for growing data stream in rail vehicles
The amount of cable-based communication in rail vehicles is growing. Other than being robust, reliable transmission of power and signals from one part of the train to the next, the requirements nowadays extends to transmitting large amount of data including passenger information systems, entertainment and Wi-Fi electrical systems. Jumper cables provide for the data flow between the vehicles, with connectors attached to their ends. They are plugged on the outside walls of the vehicles.
HARTING junction box to respond the increasingly individualised requests of the railway industry
Modularisation and miniaturisation are the latest trend of the manufacturing. In response to the trends, HARTING provides the junction box solution. With the comprehensive product portfolio for the railway industry, junction box is the perfect example of showing how HARTING provides the connectivity solutions which are tailored to the specific needs of the operating environment.
Han® HPR, an ideal solution for short wagon coupling
With the Han® 24 HPR EasyCon short, HARTING offers a jumper cable connector with more wiring space. The hood is divided into two parts, ensuring a user-friendly assembly process as well as a simple inspection of the cable and screen connections on the “open system”. The customer benefits from more wiring space compared to the standard Han® HPR hood, making the connector an ideal solution for short wagon coupling. It allows the use of monobloc or Han-Modular® contact inserts in hoods/housings. Shield connection and strain relief are possible within the hood/housing.
Han® B, the HARTING connector provides efficient pre-assembly of cable harnesses saves time and money in the railway industry
In the past, the application of connectors in switch cabinets required substantial effort that could not be avoided as the re-assembled cable harnesses and connector parts are usually inserted from the inside of the switch cabinet into a bulkhead mounted housing attached to the inner wall of the cabinet.
To provide a time efficient solution, HARTING offers the Han® B and the Han-Eco® B series which allow the rear assembly of contact inserts. For installation, both ends of the cable harnesses can be rear-mounted from the inside of the switch cabinet into the bulkhead-mounted housing. The rear mounting option considerably simplifies the assembly of cabinets and therefore saves time and money. The switch cabinet units and the cable harnesses can be pre-assembled separately. This allows for the work to be divided up in a more optimal way; processes can even be automated or outsourced, if necessary in order to facilitate even more efficiency and therefore increase productivity.
Further advantages result from the plug-compatibility of the Han-Eco® B with the plastic casing. The HARTING’s Han-Eco® B plastic housing is as the same size as the Han® B aluminium die-cast, it reduces approximately 50% of the housing weight, largely contributes of increasing energy efficiency. With the rear mounting features, manufacturers are now able to achieve the goals of increasing energy efficiency in the rail vehicle construction sector.
HARTING Zhuhai serves as the manufacturing hub in Asia
HARTING established the Zhuhai production centre in 1998. It started as an electronics and assembly factory. In 2007, it opened a new factory and started to die-cast hood/housing for application of machinery, railway, energy, wind energy and automation. The whole plant is 25,000 sqm with the 20,000 sqm production area. Zhuhai factory designs and provides customised solutions of industrial cable assemblies, including jumper cables serving the railway market since 2010. It manufactures heavy duty connector Han®, mezzanine connector har-flex®, PushPull connectors, ethernet switches and customised solutions like connection box, kitting, cable assembly, jumper cable, cable harnessing etc. The production centre has obtained the ISO 14001 in 2004, ISO 9001 in 2015 and it is also IRIS/TS 22163 and Lab ISO 17025: CNAS certified. HARTING Zhuhai offers “Out of one hand solution” to the customers.
HARTING established the Beijing production plant, the satellite plant of the Zhuhai production centre, in 2015 and started the production in the same year. It is a 3,400 sqm faciliity with building utilised area 1,700 sqm. It is ISO 9001 certifacted since 2008.
