Written by Nigel Dawbarn, Market Segment Manager – Control & Industry Solutions
Often when my colleagues or I visit new potential customers, they say “I am not really sure what you do or can offer?” Then we start to tell our story: Phoenix Contact UK is a subsidiary of the company based in Germany about an hour south of Hanover, we are a 2 billion Euro turnover company with 14,000 employees worldwide. We provide components, systems or solutions to suit your needs, with engineers based in the UK or with full support from our Industry Team from our HQ.
We then go deeper into the product and solutions we can offer, depending on the industry sector or application the customer is interested in.
Process Industry Solutions
Often in Process Industry discussions we pick out some of the unique products first, such as some of our wireless solutions which include Radio, Bluetooth, WiFi and wireless Hart communication – we can pick a method to suit the actual application in question. The range of products is so wide, we start with your connection to the field devices, then move on to the control room and all methods of communicating in between.
Complete solutions for automated tank farm management
Do you have examples?
We have been involved with tank farm monitoring over significant distances and shorter distance communications in and out of Ex areas. For these applications, we have valve position monitoring solutions, overflow protection and level monitoring solutions. We can also offer a range of application specific, box style solutions for oil and gas monitoring systems for valves and pipelines.
Depending on your local infrastructure we can offer products to enable you to gain secure access and enable remote diagnostics to plant systems. Here we can use the combination of existing cabling, 3G modems or wireless radio modules to provide reliable data transmission to your control room.
Communication solutions for any infrastructure
The Safety products from Phoenix Contact enable us to offer some real innovations – reduce the size of your cabinet by using our 6mm safety relay.
Protect your plant with surge protection devices- marshall your intrinsically safe signals from the Ex area of the plant. Foundation Fieldbus and Profibus PA solutions are also within our bag of products and solutions.
So, at the end of our meetings we are met with the wide eyes of the engineers saying:
“Wow…we had no idea you could help us with all those products and solutions!”
Then we get asked:
“When can you come back and discuss these specific applications in more detail?”
What more could we ask for?!
The process industry has its challenges at present with the cost of oil per barrel but projects are still going ahead in mid stream and down stream areas. All we can suggest is to contact Phoenix Contact to learn more about some of our problem solving solutions. Give us a call now!
For more information, contact David Hall on 07970 498812 or email: dhall@phoenixcontact.com
