Preparations for the major overhaul of VA10 have been completed. Following an intensive planning phase, switch cabinet construction, and successful integration testing of the new switchgear and control systems, a total of 144 switch cabinets, various consoles, motors, and attachments were transported to the storage site at Thyssenkrupp Rasselstein GmbH.
At the beginning of January 2026, KERN Industrie Automation GmbH will begin renovations at Andernach plant, which we will continue to report on here.
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We are starting day 3 of the conversion and the team from Kern Industrie Automation GmbH is well on schedule. Thanks to detailed planning, the dismantling of the old switchgear is progressing well.
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Following the dismantling of the old switchgear, our team is now working in shifts to install the new power and control cabinets, control panels, and cabling. The first cabinets and panels are already in place.
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The current modernization of the VA10 does not only include the control cabinets and control stations. Along with the new converter technology, the drives are also getting new encoders, such as S-rollers 2 and 3. The planning, production, and installation of the individual encoder consoles was carried out by the mechanical engineering department at Kern Industrie Automation GmbH. As a full-service provider, we thus reduce the coordination effort between the individual fields for our customers.