In today’s fast-paced industrial environment, efficiency and versatility are crucial. The THERMOMARK CARD, a Thermal transfer printer designed by Phoenix Contact offers a reliable, portable marking solution for managing wiring systems, organizing terminal blocks, and ensuring clear device labeling.
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In a modern All Electric Society, data-driven sustainability strategies help companies optimize resource consumption, improve inefficient processes, reduce failures, and plan maintenance effectively. This boosts efficiency, cuts costs, and ensures regulatory compliance. Additionally, sustainable business models attract customers, investors, and partners, enhancing competitive advantage and positioning companies as industry leaders.
Continue readingIn modern production environments, a high-performance network connection provides a crucial competitive advantage. Moreover, networked production systems dynamically receive production orders to ensure optimal utilization. For process analysis, production data is essential to understand and optimize subprocesses or entire processes. Additionally, it is important to securely archive quality-related information, such as calibration protocols.
Automation and electrification are raising safety and reliability standards for electrical systems. What new surge protection standards and norms are required, and how can they be implemented? This article explores these questions.
Monitoring safety processes in combined heat and power plants requires reliable feedback for pressure limits and reliable shutdowns with gas alarms. Therefore, 2G Energy AG uses Force-guided relay modules from Phoenix Contact’s Rifline product family to meet these needs.
As electrification, networking, and automation increase, so does the need for reliable power supply and monitoring. Automation specialists can prevent system failures by integrating a comprehensive supply concept.
Population growth and climate change challenge society and the economy globally. Consequently, the solution is the vision of an All Electric Society, where renewable electrical energy is the primary, affordable, and sufficient energy source worldwide, achieved through the electrification, networking, and automation of all sectors of the economy and infrastructure.
DC grids in industry enhance energy efficiency, increase efficiency coefficients, and simplify installation. Moreover, producing connection technology like the ArcZero DC connector from mass-balanced plastic amplifies these benefits through resource-efficient production.
Further more, most electronic devices and production machines use direct current, which is prevalent in both private and commercial environments despite the global use of AC grids. Although DC technology has faded, especially with the decline of DC motors in factories, it is re-emerging through intelligent DC grids. These grids reduce energy losses, improve grid quality, and better integrate renewable energies.
Continue readingIf control cabinet space is limited but machine or system functionality has increased, planners and developers can use a multi-level terminal block like the PT four-level terminal block to address this issue.
Sustainable production using renewable energies starts with an industrial DC grid. Phoenix Contact’s Contactron ELR HDC is a multifunctional DC switching device that includes monitoring and protective functions in a compact design.
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OPC UA remains a key communication technology, offering a wide range of functions for modeling simple to complex information models. While it provides many opportunities, it can overwhelm new users. Phoenix Contact addresses this with intuitive solutions and application examples.
In Industry 4.0, OPC UA is a key technology for mapping and accessing complex data. Driven by the OPC Foundation, it is based on three pillars:
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