Press conference: SPS IPC Drives 2017 Phoenix Contact – Key partner on the road to a smarter world Roland Bent Chief Technology Officer, Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co KG, Blomberg Ulrich Leidecker President Business Area IMA, Phoenix Contact Electronics GmbH, Bad Pyrmont November 28, 2017
RS Components has been named as Phoenix Contacts’ UK distribution partner of the year for Device Connections for outstanding sales growth and extensive marketing activities based around new product introductions in 2017.
The Ethernet Port Adapter (EPA) Bluetooth and WLAN wireless modules from Phoenix Contact are being replaced by the EPA 2 generation models, with immediate effect.
The industry standard for water management, recognised by the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) since August 2017, explains the level of technology necessary for the protection of critical infrastructure.
Phoenix Contact's Rifline industrial relay system product range now includes a new force-guided coupling relay module with 24 V DC coil voltage.
Phoenix Contact will be presenting a cloud application for recording and analysing safety-related data for the first time at the SPS IPC Drives 2017 trade fair. With the PROFICLOUD solution, companies receive important information on the optimisation of sequences in production.
With PC Worx Engineer, Phoenix Contact is giving you the option of a cost-free engineering platform all tasks related to configuration, programming, diagnostics, and visualisation of automation applications.
PLCnext Control is Phoenix Contact's first open control platform product based on PLCnext Technology.
Networking protection and control units in systems and machines is becoming increasingly common. Operating states are gathered, visualised, and controlled within the scope of remote maintenance.
The mGuard remote maintenance routers from Phoenix Contact will be even more secure: With the new firmware 8.5, custom firewall rules can now also be stored inside and outside of the VPN tunnel for routers belonging to device class 2000.
The new maintenance-free Quint CAP buffer module from Phoenix Contact bridges cyclical failures lasting up to 30 seconds. It combines an electronic switch-over unit and maintenance-free, capacitor-based energy storage in the same housing.
Faults or cable interrupts can be clearly identified in the operating state with the new PTTB 2,5-ILA 100 current indicator terminal blocks from Phoenix Contact. The voltage drop is evaluated at a Zener diode in reverse direction and is indicated by an LED. The circuit diagram printing enables clear identification and minimizes faulty wiring.
