
Wouldn’t it be great to have a bubble of protection (or a force field if you will) around your Machine?
Stopping all outside influences from damaging all your hard work…




Wouldn’t it be great to have a bubble of protection (or a force field if you will) around your Machine?
Stopping all outside influences from damaging all your hard work…



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 Scott Mulholland, Product Manager- Industrial Components
At Phoenix Contact, we understand the problems that Machine Builders will come up against at concept, design, prototyping, testing and field testing. That’s why we put the features and benefits into our products to help you achieve your machine goals.

Written by Andy Neat, Product Manager- Marking & Installation
Do you ever look at a cabinet or panel that needs 500+ terminations made off and the thought of all that crimping makes your fingers ache before you even pick up a ferrule?!
I do know that since I broke my right hand trying to be Goalkeeper for my local football team when I was 21, I now resort to using my left (weaker) hand to crimp as the crooked fingers on my right hand simply aren’t fit for purpose…or at least for squeezing a set of 16mm crimping pliers!
Written by Fraser Cowie, Product Marketing Manager- Interface
All panel and machine builders are under pressure from their customers and their competitors to reduce their carbon footprint and use less of the world’s natural resource. One way to do this is reduce the space taken up by the control gear in their panels and use more energy efficient products.
Phoenix Contact have produced the UNO power supply range where energy and space saving are just two of the benefits on offer.

Written by Andy Maskell, Product Manager – Safety, I/O & Networks
Whether in the control cabinet or in the field, whichever network you use…with the Axioline I/O system you are in control.

Axioline operates all leading networks: PROFINET, EtherNet/IP™, EtherCAT, sercos, Modbus TCP, PROFIBUS. IEC 61850 approved versions also available.
Written by Fraser Cowie, Product Manager- Interface
Why use multiple relay ranges when you can carry out all standard relay applications using only the RIFLINE complete industrial relay system; it proves that less truly is more!
It doesn’t matter whether you want to isolate, multiply or amplify signals you will only ever need the one system!
Written by Gary Nelson, Product Manager- Device Connections

The M23 Hybrid range of circular interconnect products from Phoenix Contact is an all-in-one connection solution comprising of signal, data and power contacts in one M23 connector housing. The compact M23 Hybrid plug-in connection solution can handle currents up to 30 A, voltages up to 850 V DC or 630 V AC and is IP65/67 compliant.
Written by Scott Mulholland, Product Manager- Industrial Components
At Phoenix Contact we understand the problems that Machine Builders will come up against at concept, design, prototyping, testing and field testing. That’s why we put the features and benefits into our products to help you achieve your machine goals.
Our Heavycon Evo series (Part of the Phoenix Contact Heavycon Complete heavy duty offer) has been developed with the Machine Builder firmly in mind. Continue reading
Written by Andy Neat, Product Manager- Marking & Installation
When talking about ‘less is more’ with tooling, I can’t look anywhere else in my tool kit than at the CRIMPFOX 4in1. If you like that feeling and satisfaction of crimping a cable by hand with a standard crimp tool but want to save time and fuss, then the Crimpfox 4in1 is the tool for you.
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