Written by Duncan Nicol
Batteries have been around for a very long time, but it‘s only in recent years that significant investment has been thrown at the challenge of making batteries more efficient and better suited to emerging applications such as home energy storage and electric vehicles. Batteries can also perform an important role in managing peak demand from the grid as demonstrated recently by Tesla in Australia.
Written by Gareth Chamberlain
Throughout my life I have seen huge changes in the way IT has moved in the commercial sector. From multiple standalone servers taking up huge spaces and needing dedicated employees to look after the well-being of each one, to today where all the servers are combined in to a single physical piece with hosted virtualised servers on the physical platform.
I’m also lucky enough to be witnessing the same changing shift within the industrial sector. Engineers who have only been used to dealing with serial devices are now being asked to dive into the world of IT with Ethernet, Wireless and IT network protocols, with projects that demand real time data back to a central server.
Written by Nigel Dawbarn
We start 2018 with changes to the team; David Hall, who has worked for Phoenix Contact for 19 years has decided now is the right time to retire. David will leave us in February, having done a sterling job in the Process market over the last few years, so I would like to wish David all the best in his well-deserved retirement. We will look forward to welcoming David’s replacement in during February.
Mark Cain has completed six months with us and settled in to the team very well and is making great progress within his remit for Infrastructure and I’m sure we will hear more from Mark in the coming weeks / months.
During 2017 we, as PHOENIX CONTACT have made some great investments in new technologies and company acquisitions as the more eagle-eyed of you will have noticed on our news pages. Continue reading
Welcome to a brand new year of blogging. As always, our marketing department has a busy year of exhibitions and seminars planned. Why not join us at one of our events? Meet our industry specialists and discover more about new products that will be launched this year.After an incredibly exciting 2017, we are raring to go into 2018 and here’s what we have in store for you this year. We have waved goodbye to 2017 and 2018 is going to be an event filled year!
Written by Andy Maskell, Product Manager- I/O, Safety & Networks.
The great thing about a competitive market place is the innovation it brings with it. Manufacturers are always developing new ideas and making them a reality. Of course these new ideas need to have something unique, they need to solve a problem, save time, money or both.
INLINE ECO is a range of I/O that requires no configuration but covers all of the common functions required in machines and systems today. The simplicity reduces costs but also makes it quick and easy to use whilst also solving some common problems.
Using the principle of “One terminal, one function” no software or settings are required throughout the ECO range. All options are fully backward compatible with the Phoenix Contact Inline I/O system making this extremely flexible for new machines or retrofitting.
Written by Tony Deane, Technical Manager- Control Systems
Does your company deploy Profinet as its automation network?
Do you have multiple sites adopting this standard, including overseas?
Phoenix Contact can help you to dramatically improve communication, efficiency and overall transparency across sites both nationally and internationally. Here’s how:
Since joining Phoenix Contact 4 years ago, the one thing that has always struck me is the accuracy of our motto “Inspiring Innovations”. We are constantly developing products to innovate and improve our customers’ products and processes .
Never has this motto been more apt than when speaking about The Proficloud.
Written by Nigel Dawbarn, Business Development Manager- Control System Solutions.
Phoenix Contact uses the Easy Automation range of products in many applications, the Class 100 range of Controllers can be used in conjunction with either of the following :
These products can make a complete flexible system which will satisfy most of your automation needs for small to medium size systems.
Written by Nigel Dawbarn, Business Development Manager – Control System Solutions
Single or Multi-touch options…
Designline from Phoenix Contact, our new Panel PC, is an attractive design with high-performance technology.
We think this is one of the best looking Panel PCs on the market. What do you think? Continue reading
Witten by Gary Trewhitt, Business Development Manager- Automotive
So Interbus is dead. “LONG LIVE THE QUEEN”.
Who said Interbus is dead?
Not an uncommon misconception, as others would have you think.
Perhaps Phoenix Contact took its eye off the ball in relation to Interbus? I would say forward thinking.
Interbus is alive and truly well.
