Written by Andy Neat, Senior Product Manager- Marking & Identification and Toolfox
Welcome to my latest blog on all things marking and labelling!
When we talk about terminal marking, those little white rectangular pieces of plastic that clip in the top of terminals spring to mind. But what if your terminal isn’t mounted on a din rail, but on a PCB? Then we have a whole different portfolio for that to save to time and money!
Continue readingWritten by Andy Neat, Senior Product Manager – Marking & Identification and Toolfox
Morning and welcome to another blog from the world of marking & identification. First of all I hope you are all safe and well as we get closer to normal life.
As some of you readers may or may not know, I’ve been Product Manager for Marking & Identification since 2013 and it’s grown a lot since then- nearly 10x in turnover my rough calculations tell me! I don’t mean that to sound ‘braggy’, it’s just a good example of what a bit of product focus (or a tall, skinny guy talking a lot about it on LinkedIn) can do over time.
In that time Marking has grown more and more popular in the UK as the need for faster, easier marking solutions has grown with the demand for faster, leaner production times. With any application Marking is an integral product but it can be the one that takes most time to install. This is where we succeeded in helping customers and, of course, we are cost effective in the market too which has helped us grow year on year.
But now, in 2021, we are at a point where a tall guy from Telford talking on LinkedIn, ploughing through emails, and charging up and down the M6 wasn’t enough anymore. Basically, we needed help!
So after doing interviews on Microsoft Teams, training whilst staying 2 meters apart and no shaking hands, I’m pleased to introduce a brand new Marking & Identification team in the UK.
With myself staying as Product Manager, we have two new Sales Engineers covering the North and South of the UK. This move now allows Phoenix Contact UK to have a structured focus on service and support, as well as sales, of course. The two new team members are at hand to show our market leading marking systems and offer a helping hand at setup and support. All of which is backed up by myself, giving support to the team and customers further with tech-support and software training to keep Phoenix Contact’s Marking brand as slick as it is innovative.
Written by Andy Neat, Senior Product Manager- Marking & Identification and Toolfox
First of all I hope you and your families are all safe and well, hopefully soon we’ll be back to normality which would be fine timing as Netflix has almost been exhausted in our house! Although the Joe Exotic and Carol Baskin’s feud did make for gripping television!
So today I’m going to talk about Food & Beverage identification and, what’s more, if this blog isn’t enough to wet your industrial marking appetite then at 3pm today you can see our latest Marking Monday video-cast which is also on… you guessed it, food & beverage identification.
So let’s crack on!
Continue readingWritten by Andy Neat, Senior Product Manager- Marking & Identification and Toolfox
Morning and welcome to another Monday morning blog from myself! I hope you and your families are all safe and well and let’s hope for a return to normality very soon!
I’m going to jump straight in with this one…being the Product Manager for our tool range I find that nine times out of ten, when I’m being asked to go and show tools to engineers, it’s to help with time saving and consequently cost saving (or just because the engineers want new toys). However, that one time out of ten is for a far more interesting point, it’s to reduce RSI.
Continue readingWritten by Andy Neat, Product Manager- Marking & Identification and Industrial Cabinet Solutions
Morning everyone, welcome to another one of my Monday morning blogs!
First of all, I hope you are all safe and well as we find ourselves in national lockdown again. If nothing else, I have here something to take your mind off the pandemic for a few minutes as I’m going to talk to you about a product which you can download and play with, right now!
Continue readingWritten by Andy Neat, Product Manager- Marking & Installation
Applications for lasers seem endless from medicine to measurement and communication to cutting….Buzz Lightyear had one on his suit and seem to remember Goldfinger shining one between James Bond’s legs in the 60’s! They’ve been around a long time too with Eintstein having an early part to play in developing the first laser and in fact did you know ‘Laser’ is an acronym of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation?… (you’ll sleep better now you know that).
So where do we at Phoenix Contact fit into this? Well like Goldfinger, we use them to cut and burn stuff! And, to be more specific, mark stuff! We have a marking system called the Topmark NEO, and it’s a very good one too.
It’s a class 1 fibre laser etching system which can mark stainless steel, aluminium and multiple plastic labels in seconds! It can also cut custom shapes and labels out of transply ABS and Polyacrolite material with the biggest size being 180mm x 180mm. With the ability to laser etch onto multiple materials it goes without saying that the Topmark NEO is perfect for most applications from panel building to machine building, plant marking and even food & beverage and offshore applications.
It doesn’t stop there either. If you’re used to our old faithful UCT and UC cards for terminal and cable marking, then guess what? It can laser etch those cards and stack them for you too! It genuinely is the complete marking system!
And of course it’s all driven by our Project Complete software to mark directly to the Topmark or to export onto USB stick and import onto the Topmark itself, eliminating the need to use a PC all the time.
But the best bit is we now have a Topmark NEO in our UK office to demonstrate. You can book to come and have a play with it yourself where we can treat you to a biscuit or doughnut or two 😉 and who knows, we may even be allowed some of ‘Becky from Marketing’s’ special coffee!
For info on the Topmark NEO click here and to book to see the Topmark NEO click here.
Thanks for reading and I hopefully look forward to talking lasers with you soon!
Now excuse me whilst I catch up on what happens to that laser between James Bond’s legs…
For more information, contact Andy on 07786 252414 or email aneat@phoenixcontact.com
Written by Andy Neat, Product Manager- Marking & Installation
Morning and welcome again to one of my Monday morning blogs! Today I’m going to talk about ‘top tips’, which is very topical in the Neat household at the moment as I have a 5 week old baby. So all hints and tips for a full night’s sleep are gladly welcome at the moment!
So if you use Phoenix Contact marking systems or are looking at using them in the future then with out further a do, please read on where I’m going to jump straight in and give you my low down on top tips for using Phoenix Contact marking systems:
Continue readingWritten by Andy Neat- Product Manager, Marking & Installation
I’ve put my selfie stick down from vlogging today and turned back to my keyboard for a change, after all, it has been nearly a year since my last blog so why not?!
Just like Game Of Thrones, all good things must come to an end…well I didn’t actually watch Game Of Thrones, but everyone told me it was good…apparently Jon Snow knows nothing??…anyway, like I was saying, all good things come to an end and is also the case for our long serving design software Clip Project.
https://youtu.be/a5fMfLfLj8s
For more information, contact Andy on aneat@phoenixcontact.com or tel: 07786 252414