Written by Andy Neat
Good morning everyone and welcome to my second written blog of the year! Alternatively, as you may have seen, I have been desperately trying to maintain my youth by filming vlogs instead of writing blogs. But with these fancy 4K HD cameras we have, there’s no hiding the sprouting grey hair on my chin or the wrinkles around my eyes making it rather clear that I am in fact a man in my 30’s.
Moving swiftly on….
Written by Gareth Chamberlain
For the last two weeks, we have been busy. The old technical wall has been demolished and a new wall has been constructed in its place. Why? You might ask. Not only do we update the demonstration wall every so often to show new products, we also thought this time it would be more suited to be more than just a showroom. So we decided to create the Smart Networks wall (cue unveiling music). This allows us to give more of a service towards yourself and the needs of an application.
Written by Mark Lloyd and Andy Maskell
Anything that increases the reliability of your safety circuit has to be a good thing…..
In fact, it is a basic requirement when using safety relays or Safe PLCs that the outputs are protected against overcurrent and overvoltage to prevent dangerous failures.
In the case of a safety relay output, this may be in the form of a welded relay contact for example.
Written by Rachel Boyd, E-Marketing Specialist
2013 has been a very busy year in the Marketing Department. We have had two InfoLiner tours, Exhibitions, Safety Seminars, new websites and much more in the background!
Written by Gary Trewhitt, Industry Manager – Automotive
In June Phoenix Contact teamed up with TÜV SÜD (Laidler Associates) and Mechan Controls to bring you a FREE one day workshop on Electrical and Functional Safety. It was hugely successful day and the fact it was fully booked within a week shows the need for more events like this.
“I would like to extend my thanks to all involved for hospitality during the training. Following our experience we would be interested in putting more of our engineers through this training day if it became available again.”
Written by Rachel Mawbey, E-marketing Specialist
Want to test one of our products but can’t afford the down-time on-site?
In today’s tough financial climate, it is particularly important to ensure that any new components that you change or add to your systems are suitable and will do what you want and expect them to do. However, this financial climate then also often contributes to the inability to stop tight production schedules to be able to complete the required tests.
Phoenix Contact’s solution is our brand new Test & Development room:
Written by Gary Trewhitt, Industry Manager- Automotive
Free Workshop!
As part of Phoenix Contact’s ever increasing involvement in Machinery Safety and its growing product portfolio, we have teamed up with TUV SUD (Laidler Associates) and Mechan Controls to bring you a FREE one day workshop on Electrical and Functional Safety.
Venue: Phoenix Contact Ltd,Telford TF7 4PG
Date: 11th June 2013 9am-4pm
This one day course is to introduce and give delegates an overview of the EN 60204-1 standard as well as Safety Concept ISO13849 and Safety Concept IEC 62061. Incorporating EN ISO 14119 in order to understand the requirements and applications of electrical, electronic and programmable systems to ensure the electrical safety of machinery in industrial installations. It will give possible solutions to existing on-site problems with conformity to these standards. Through EN ISO 14119, it will identify non-compliances to the standard, showing actual machine examples and common misconceptions/assumptions of safety.
Written by Rachel Mawbey, E-marketing Specialist
I hope you are enjoying our blog posts so far, and are becoming little more familiar with the people and industry knowledge behind the Phoenix Contact team in the UK. There has been a wide variety of different subjects discussed in the last few weeks, and many more to come, I am sure!
Is there a topic or application example that you would like to know more about? Why not contact us or leave a comment below, and you may see your suggestion posted soon.
