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Intelligent surge protection monitoring

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Written by Mark Lloyd, Product Manager- Power Supplies & Surge Protection

What use is the best type of surge protection if you don‘t know how long it will remain active?

When I took on the role of the UK Product Management for Surge & Lightning Protection devices, I thought I had successfully avoided any complicated Industry 4.0 or Industrial Internet of Things involvement. I thought you couldn’t possibly be able to monitor surge currents and transient over-voltages in real time over a network. Boy, was I wrong.

This month we have unveiled ImpulseCheck which is the world’s first intelligent assistance system for surge protection in the field of mains protection.

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How can you help us?…what do you do?

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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.

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