| [January 26, 2010] - Integrated Control Station in Landau in South Palatinate (Germany) |  back |
Knürr Technical Furniture impresses with its harmonious overall concept The integrated control station in Landau, which is operated by the German Red Cross is responsible for all non-police assistance calls in the towns of Landau, Pirmasens, Zweibrücken and the administrative districts of Germersheim, Südliche Weinstraße and Südwestpfalz. A new building was recently provided and technically equipped for this operations center, which is responsible for approx. 460,000 residents. With the aid of Knürr Technical Furniture’s experts, the integrated control station was equipped with harmonized control station furniture and brought up to the latest state of technology.
After the State of Rheinland-Palatinate had provided financial resources as part of the Konjunkturprogramm II (economic aid program), the German Red Cross performed intensive market research. Despite the strong competition, the decision was finally made in favor of Knürr Technical Furniture. The company completely and absolutely met all requirements for a harmonized overall concept and delivered technically high quality and ergonomic solutions for the rescue services control station, which was last modernized more than 20 years ago. “Our integrated control station is the base for sounding alarm and controlling rescue service deployments,” explains Bernd Fischer, Managing Director at DRK Rettungsdienst Südpfalz GmbH, and adds: “The new furniture therefore had to satisfy special technological and ergonomic requirements.”
Approximately 85,000 operations are controlled and managed in the south and southwest Palatinate area, covering some 2,270 km², every year. High-grade systems were therefore ordered for the integrated control station, which also meet occupational health standards in addition to technical particulars. As the station’s employees operate in round-the-clock shift work, optimum conditions were expected and required at their workstations. Knürr’s solutions are, of course, the ideal choice for such conditions: The Knürr ErgoCon series electric-motor height-adjustable desks feature stepless working height setting. The height is set via an extremely quiet lifting mechanism and allows the user to individually adjust their work area. The ergonomic monitor connection with TFT adaption on the circular functional rail also meets the requirements for increasing visual needs in the Landau control station. The optimum viewing distances from the monitors support comfort, and consequently satisfaction at the workstation. The functional rails and the monitor columns can be freely positioned and extended on the worktops. The hidden cable management also contributes to more order and better appearance of the new furniture. The spacious technical pedestal for integrating the technology at the workstation guarantees complete legroom freedom, as the equipment can be intelligently housed when the mounting panels and chassis runners are installed. The new systems therefore promote more effective working. The control station will officially go into operation on January 1, 2010, when 22 employees will start their work in the new building and benefit from the new solutions.
Before Knürr was commissioned Mr. Fischer made sure the products had the required quality. The control station Managing Director made a visit to Arnstorf to take a personal look at the company’s services: “The workstations and the solutions meet all the requirements for the staff and storage rooms and the equipment for the administrators’ offices that we demanded of the new systems,” says Mr. Fischer. He therefore rates DRK’s cooperation with Knürr Technical Furniture positively without exception. “The project was extremely well managed. Both the products and the Knürr experts have completely met our expectations. Our supplier is the ideal partner for our restructuring, and we have even reordered some products already,” sums up a clearly satisfied MD.
Founded in 1931, Knürr AG based in Arnstorf, Bavaria, is a leading manufacturer of system solutions in the world of information and network technology and telecommunications. In January 2006, Knürr was integrated into Emerson Network Power, a division of the global technology producer, Emerson Electric, which has an annual turnover of 20 billion US dollars, 140,000 employees and 277 production sites around the world. Knürr’s top quality system solutions ensure its exceptional reputation around the globe as a ground-breaking developer and manufacturer of rack and enclosure platforms. Knürr sets standards for equipping data centers and is an accredited developer of innovative technologies. With its decades of experience in the technology sector, Knürr can not only be proud of its numerous award-winning innovations – it can also offer its customers around the world application-specific, comprehensive and future-oriented system solutions. These are provided for the indoor and outdoor area, for all relevant active and passive components in the 19-inch construction area, and the thermal and cable management technologies that this entails. As a result of its commitment to its customers, Knürr – within the Emerson Network Power family – has built up a unique product range of infrastructure solutions, which help to secure business-critical processes. Knürr AG has production sites in America, Europe and Asia, from which it operates all over the world.
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Emerson Network Power is an Emerson Group company (NYSE: EMR) and industry leader with its continuity solutions (Business-Critical Continuity™). The company is recognized as a reliable provider of flexible and dependable solutions that effectively protect the important components of the customer’s infrastructure. On the basis of the biggest global service organization in the industry, Emerson Network Power provides a wide range of innovative power supply, cooling and connection solutions. Added to this are services for the computer, communication, health care and industrial systems areas. Emerson Network Power’s most important product brand names include Liebert, ASCO, Astec and Lorain.
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