Have you been hearing the buzzwords Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrie 4.0 alot lately? These are the models for the industrial production of tomorrow.
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The GIT Security Award nominated Phoenix Contact’s Photovoltaic SOLARCHECK RSD panel shutdown as a finalist. Therefore, your Vote counts!
How to ensure electrical safety in photovoltaics systems?
Electrical equipment with voltage of 120 V DC or more must always be disconnected. This is as a general health and safety measure to protect against electric shock. Ideally, it should also be possible to put the photovoltaic systems automatically into a safe state as a result.
SOLARCHECK RSD makes working on photovoltaic systems so safe
SOLARCHECK RSD safely and automatically shuts down your system during installation, maintenance, or in dangerous situations. Photovoltaic rooftop systems generate DC voltages of up to 1000 V, therefore it is not easy to disconnect them on the DC side. If for instance, the system is damaged, this presents a problem. SOLARCHECK RSD automatically switches your system to a safe state. hence protect you from life-threatening electric shocks during installation and maintenance or in dangerous situations.
A jury with representatives from BHE, TÜV, VDMA, ZVEI, integrators, and users decided to nominate the automatic SOLARCHECK RSD photovoltaic panel shutdown as a finalist for the GIT Security Award.
Each year, the Wiley VCH publishing house awards the prize from the GIT Security trade journal for innovative products and systems in safety technology. There are five categories that the products fall under. SOLARCHECK RSD belongs to category B, which covers fire protection, Ex protection, and occupational health and safety.
This product independently puts photovoltaic systems into a safe state. Therefore, it protects personnel against potentially lethal electric shocks during installation and maintenance or in dangerous situations.
We invite all readers and those interested in the GIT Sicherheit journal and the international GIT Security journal to vote.
You have until 31st August to cast your vote. Click here to vote and get a chance to win an SLR camera from the Wiley VCH publishing house.
Find more information on how SOLARCHECK RSD makes working on photovoltaic systems so safe.
PROFICLOUD – The cloud system for PROFINET
From |PROFICLOUD is the intelligent solution for the industry
The PROFICLOUD system enables easy and secure communication and control of machines and systems across different locations worldwide. The unique combination of the proven PROFINET standard and Cloud services offers brand new possibilities for automation, including in the Industrie 4.0 environment.
Distributed automation becomes significantly easier with the cloud system, regardless of where your network devices are located. This enables manufacturers to monitor the status of their systems installed anywhere in the world. The evaluation of the data gathered shows, for example, potential failures at an early stage, thereby saving time and money.
Your advanatges
- You may extend your PROFINET network to include PROFICLOUD services, without requiring any further specialist knowledge
- Maximum flexibility, thanks to automation across border, from any location, via the internet
- Easy engineering, as distributed devices and PROFICLOUD network services appear in the local PROFINET network
- Efficient automation, thanks to preconfigured and preprogrammed PROFICLOUD products
- Secure communication, thanks to TLS encryption
Furthermore, you can call up data and store it using the cloud services. In addition to current electricity tariffs or the local time, you can also integrate weather data or complex calculations into the PROFINET application.
PHOENIX CONTACT helped shape the trend towards Ethernet-based automation technology from an early stage. Our many years of expertise influence all our products developments, from connectors to programmable logic controllers. By developing our own technology for ASICs, PROFINET controllers or PROFIsafe, we are able to be independent while still ensuring full compatibility with the standard.
Visit our website to learn more about this cloud system technology.
ISA UAE Automation – Setting the Standard for Automation
From |ISA UAE Automation Conference and Exhibition 2016
The ISA UAE Automation Conference and Exhibition 2016 is a full-scale conference and exhibition in the Gulf Region dedicated for process automation and will be held to emphasize on the local content and to reflect the true position of UAE as a major market of automation products and technologies.
The event will provide an opportunity for the Automation Industry professionals and End Users to network and share best-case practices. It will also provide them with the knowledge about the latest technologies and applications on measurement, control and safety. The event will take place in Abu Dhabi on the 30th and 31st of May 2016 at St. Regis Hotel.
Phoenix Contact will be present at the show. Visit our Stand 26 – 27 to be able to see our comprehensive portfolio for the process industry and automation.
Click here to register for the exhibition.
The oil and gas industry is changing: both producers and operators need to increase the efficiency of their systems. Due to the recent drop in oil prices around the world, demand for efficient, safer and cost effective operations by End Users of the Energy sector has increased and most of all increased the growing need for communication between the Automation Industry and the End Users.
President Obama visits Phoenix Contact booth
From |President Obama visits Phoenix Contact at the Hannover Messe
On 25th April, 2016, President Barack Obama visited the Phoenix Contact booth together with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the opening of the Hannover Messe.
CEO Frank Stührenberg as well as the President of the U.S. subsidiary, Jack Nehlig, greeted the heads of state. Stührenberg served as the spokesperson for a number of new developments in a variety of product ranges. He showed the prominent guests charging connectors for electric mobility.
The CCSplus fast charging system can charge at up to 350,000 watts – within three to five minutes. Therefofre, it can provide an electric car battery with enough power to drive 100 km.
This system is available for both the European and American markets and comes with the corresponding standardized plugs. It not only fulfills user requirements for fast charging, but also represents an important milestone in the spread of electric mobility, which both the American and German governments seek to promote. Continue reading
Phoenix Contact Middle East is a Great Place To Work For!
From |PHOENIX CONTACT Middle East Employees completed the Great Place to Work® Employee Survey in 2015
The final feedback and results were GREAT! Phoenix Contact Middle East is a Great Place To Work For!
The Great Place to Work survey provides and enables employees, managers and the company as a whole the following:
- Opportunity for feedback and for participation in the cultural development.
- Identifying strengths and opportunities for improvements in the business environment.
- Measurable target tracking in ”Excellence in Leadership” & Communication”.
PHOENIX CONTACT Middle East achieved an 82% Trust Index, thus ranking amongst the Best Companies in the country.
As a result, 94% of employees stated that „Taking everything into account, I would say this is a great place to work.“
About GPTW – Great Place to Work®
GPTW is a global research and management consultancy that recognises the best workplaces in over 50 countries worldwide. Its mission is to improve peoples’ lives and create a better society by improving the workplace experience. GPTW provide a simple, research-driven methodology that could be widely used to understand and assess organisations. Companies from all over the world used this employee survey because they want to create strong workplace cultures based on trusting relationships. In conclusion, Great Place to Work believes that in a society of great workplaces, employees feel respected, proud, and trust. As a result, the management commits to “doing the right thing.”
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Industrie 4.0 |How digitalization transforms industries
From |Industrie 4.0
The world is changing: it is becoming more digital, intelligent, and flexible. Initiatives such as Industrie 4.0, is providing the first responses to the question of how digitalization will affect industry.
The production of the future, currently known as Industrie 4.0 or IOT, is gaining increasing influence in our industry, including of course at Phoenix Contact.
Industrie 4.0 is the intelligent production technology of tomorrow. Man, machine and the product itself join forces in an intelligent and an independent network.
Together with customers and partners, we are actively shaping solutions for the future. We almost have 100 years of experience in machine building and automation. Therefore, we are forced to take the digitalization of our world and turn it into the intelligent production of tomorrow.
Roland Bent -Executive Vice President Marketing and Development at Phoenix Contact said: “An Engineer should never be asked whether there is a limit to what is possible or can be developed. If people in the 1920s had asked, is there a limit to what is possible with electrical engineering? then I believe they never would have thought to mention the things that have long since become self-evident for us today.”
Come and join us at Hannover Messe 2016 – the World’s most important industrial fair and discuss with our experts a huge range of products, systems, and solutions based on the Industrie 4.0 approach.
Visit our Stand F40 in Hall 9
25. – 29.04.2016 in Hanover, Germany
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Visit us at the Middle East Electricity Exhibition
From |PHOENIX CONTACT at the Middle East Electricity Exhibition
Middle East Electricity 2016 comes to Dubai in less than a week, with over 1,500 power suppliers and manufacturers from over 62 countries appearing with their latest products and developments on show. We will be there on Stand 6A10 –Hall 6 to present a wide range of first class products and new innovations in the field of electrical connection technology, electronic interface, automation systems as well as solutions for the energy, infrastructure, and process industries.
One of the new products coming to the market, that will be on show include our Safe Energy Control technology or SEC for short. SEC is the basis for durable and powerful lightning and surge protection. The core is the revolutionary spark gap which safely prevents any line follow current. This innovation protects your system, including fuses and arresters. Therefore, a separate arrester backup fuse is therefore no longer needed in all common applications.
Another product innovation is the DC UPS solution which ensures maximum availability of your plants and systems. The various storage media feature a wide range of different properties: long service life or very long buffer time, no maintenance, and use at extreme ambient temperatures.
But that is not all! Make sure you visit our stand in Hall 6 to see the full range of innovations on show this year.
Most read articles in 2015 [Industrial automation]
From |Top 6 most read articles in 2015
First of all, are you still working on closing the books of 2015? Well, you are not alone! Just before we start bringing 2016 news to you, we thought to share with you some of the top old news.
The new generation of safety relays: PSRmini
Our new PSRmini safety relays are rather the narrowest safety relays in the world with the performance of a large safety relay. Phoenix Contact developed the relay technology in the centerpiece of the new PSRmini device. The compact 6 mm wide elementary relay design offers tried-and-tested safety, because of the force-guided contacts. Hence, the numerous technological details make it reliable as safety technology should be. It is its robustness, reliability, and diagnostic capability that sets it apart from a standard elementary relay.
Surge protection reinvented
Lightning and surge protection for the power supply is now extremely powerful and durable. This is made possible due to the new Safe Energy Control (SEC) technology with impact-free spark gap from Phoenix Contact.
New DC/DC converters for the energy sector
The new DC/DC converters of the QUINT POWER product range are particularly suitable for applications in the energy sector. Independent supply systems can be established and monitored in a preventative manner due to the electrical isolation between the input and output voltage. All DC/DC converters, power supplies, and redundancy modules of the QUINT POWER product range support power boost, which continually supplies 1.25-fold nominal current.
Monitor and Configure UPS systems Intelligently
From |The UPS-CONF software
Monitor and configure UPS systems from Phoenix Contact using the UPS-CONF software. The new version features more functions and various improvements.
Firstly, UPS-CONF is a management software to configure and monitor QUINT-UPS devices, that come with the IQ technology. This technology with continuous battery monitoring and intelligent management provides you with information about the charging state, remaining runtime, and service life of your battery at all times. Intelligent communication informs you when a situation becomes critical. Eventually, this reduces the amount of maintenance involved and increases your system availability.