Written by Nigel Dawbarn, Market Segment Manager – Control & Industry Solutions
Phoenix Contact actively supports a number of industries with Corporate Industry Teams based at Phoenix Contact in Bad Pyrmont, Germany. These teams consist of Global Industry Managers supported by Business Development teams and application support teams.
The industry team takes solution ideas and develops them into concepts, tests them and then, with the application and software engineers, creates individual products or box style solutions which enable the customer to then integrate these into their overall project.
These new solutions are backed up by application reports which advise engineers on how to implement these solutions into a customer’s project.
The industry teams have created solutions across various industries, including Solar, Wind, Process, Automotive and Infrastructure. The teams make the most of the product innovations supplied by the product business units, with class leading products across remote access, wireless, safety and protection at the heart of the solutions.
Finally, not forgetting the software team! They have created various packages which can be used to simplify the engineering of such solutions by allowing the engineer to configure the solution rather than writing the code to complete the program. Industry specific packages which are compliant with IEC61131 programming have been created with function block libraries to support these packages, saving the software engineer time, safe in the knowledge that the function blocks have been tested to high specifications.
Some of our software solutions are:
For Solar applications : Solarworx and PV Monitor+
For Power T & D applications: Powerworx
And for Water, Wastewater applications: Waterworx
For linking SCADA packages to older systems we can offer RESYGATE, a new product for 2015.
I would be happy to discuss any industry specific applications you may have and welcome the opportunity to see if we can apply any of our current solutions to your project, please just drop me a mail or pick up the phone : ndawbarn@phoenixcontact.com or 07584 514958
Solar Energy UK
Don’t forget we are at Solar Energy UK this week at the NEC – pop along to see what Solar Solutions we can suggest, we’re on stand J44g. We look forward to seeing you there!
