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Pinnacle Automation Community Partner Award

NorthWind Receives Pinnacle Automation Community Partner Award

In December 2023, NorthWind proudly accepted the Pinnacle Automation Community Partner Award, a distinguished accolade presented by Rittal Automation Systems and Eplan Software at their Community Event. This is the first time the two companies have recognized partners in this way.

NorthWind's Jim Schmelzle and Matt Bosworth with Eplan and Rittal holding Pinnacle Automation Community Partner award.
Left to right: Kruno Kutnorhorski (Head of Value Chain, EPLAN, Jim Schmelzle (Director of Manufacturing NorthWind), Matt Bosworth (COO, NorthWind), Van Miller (Value Chain Consultant, Rittal/Eplan)

The criteria for this distinguished award centers around partners who exhibit proactive engagement and strategic collaboration, particularly those who have successfully implemented connected technologies into their industrial ecosystem. NorthWind’s ecosystem seamlessly integrates Rittal Products, Eplan software, and Rittal Automation Systems. “From our perspective, NorthWind is a valuable lighthouse customer and partner for EPLAN and Rittal.  Due to their core business principles and thoughtful integration of our solutions, the NorthWind team provides a powerful demonstration of our value chain solutions for other companies considering significant improvements to their workflows”,  Van Miller – Rittal/EPLAN Value Chain Consultant.

NorthWind had a vision to automate the panel design and production process. By partnering with Eplan and Rittal systems we made the vision a reality. We are honored to be one of the inaugural recipients of the Pinnacle Automation Community Partner Award and look forward to continuing to innovate our panel design and build process with Rittal and Eplan solutions.

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Automated Project Development Process 

NorthWind has been working to automate and streamline the entire process of designing, building, and programming control systems since 2005. The result of this effort is our automated process that increases quality while reducing production time. 

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