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- Brand: Pepperl+Fuchs
- Industry Focus: Healthcare, Pharmaceutical, Water & Waste Water
- Product Type: Displays/HMI
Pepperl+Fuchs, Inc. recently announced the inclusion of several HMIs into Rockwell Automation’s Encompass Program. The Encompass Partner Program is part of the PartnerNetwork. Joining several other of Pepperl+Fuchs’ products in this Program are the Div 1 Edge Series HMI and the Zone 1/21 VisuNet GXP System. The VisuNet Edge is an all-weather workstation optimized for washdown areas up to Div 1.
- Brand: ABB
- Industry Focus: Mining, Oil & Gas, Water & Waste Water
- Product Type: Embedded Control
ABB has recently announced the release of ReliaGear LV MCC. The low voltage motor control center is built for simplicity and durability. Designed for safety, this low-voltage MCC was created to meet customer needs across a wide range of applications with a focus on smart MCC solutions. ReliaGear LV MCC is UL/cUL 845 listed and available globally in all ANSI markets where NEMA standards are prevalent and/or required.
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1- Brand: Yokogawa
- Industry Focus: Automotive, Food & Beverage, General Manufacturing, Industrial, Oil & Gas, Pharmaceutical, Power Distribution & Energy, Water & Waste Water
- Product Type: Control Software
On January 20, 2021, Yokogawa Electric Corporation announced that it would be releasing CENTUM VP R6.08, an enhanced version of the CENTUM VP integrated production control system for industrial plants, and released it two days later on January 22. CENTUM VP is a core product in the OpreX Control and Safety System solutions family. This release delivers enhancements that drastically reduce the amount of work needed to upgrade a control system's CPU module, including a newly developed utility kit and standards certification for individual CPU modules.
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- Brand: Hammond Manufacturing
- Industry Focus: General Manufacturing, Industrial, Marine/Offshore, Oil & Gas, Water & Waste Water
- Product Type: Enclosures
Designed to house electrical, electronic, hydraulic or pneumatic controls and instruments, the Type 4 two-door freestanding enclosure from Hammond Manufacturing provides protection where equipment may be hosed down or otherwise be very wet, or in specific applications.
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- Brand: IDEC
- Industry Focus: Building Controls, General Manufacturing, Industrial, Water & Waste Water
- Product Type: Switches/Indicators/Relays/Solenoids
Get smart with the fully programmable IDEC SmartRelay, a compact, expandable CPU that can replace multiple timers, relays and counters. Each CPU houses a real-time clock and calendar, and supports optional expansion I/O modules to enhance your control and monitoring applications. Program and edit using either the on-board selection buttons and display interface, or our programming software, WindLGC.
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- Industry Focus: Automotive, Building Controls, Data, Food & Beverage, General Manufacturing, Healthcare, Industrial, Marine/Offshore, Mining, Oil & Gas, Pharmaceutical, Power Distribution & Energy, Transportation, Water & Waste Water
- Product Type: Tools for Panel Builders
The innovative MARKINGENIUS® MG3 technology offers a universal and fast identification system. The thermal transfer printer quickly marks any brand of terminal blocks, and also creates wire markers, panel rating plates, push button legends and more.
- Brand: Schurter
- Industry Focus: Food & Beverage, General Manufacturing, Healthcare, Industrial, Marine/Offshore, Water & Waste Water
- Product Type: Switches/Indicators/Relays/Solenoids
Designed for harsh environments, the PSE piezoelectric switch comes with a pre-assembled polyurethane cable to offer maximum flexibility and the highest IP protection during installation. The housings of the factory assembled piezoelectric PSE family are made of stainless steel 1.4462. This steel is characterised by its particularly high resistance to corrosion, which is essential in areas with high humidity. The PSE switches offer maximum reliability and a long service life (20 million actuations). Hermetically sealed housings make the PSE with cable predestined for use in particularly harsh and inhospitable applications.
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1Rotork's Local Hand Station is an actuator control panel optimized to control actuators or field devices located in hazardous or inaccessible areas.
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1With extended functionality and a high IP rating for flexible application, new BSP pressure sensors from Balluff feature a digital display that deliver diagnostic functions information including run hours, pressure peak counter and internal temperature trend.
Neonode's zForce® Touch Solutions enables contact-free interaction with graphical user interface (GUIs), reducing pathogen transmission in hospitals and other public spaces.
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Equipment Cooling for Data Centres & Plants: Why Your HVAC SYSTEM is a Poor Climate Control Unit
Data Centre and Plant Managers working in small and mid-sized businesses often find themselves searching their buildings for unused space to house the company’s IT and other enclosures.
Mailrooms, empty offices, janitors’ closets…all have been repurposed into data closets holding one to a few racks. This approach may be the right choice in terms of square footage needed, but when it comes to proper climate conditions for sensitive IT equipment, it could not be more wrong. At best, these spaces are cooled using only the building’s AC system. At worst? An open window.
A building’s existing air conditioning system (or combined heat and air conditioning system) is designed to create comfortable environments for employees – the reason they are sometimes referred to as “comfort systems.” When IT racks need to be placed somewhere on site, it’s thought that “any old room” will do because AC ductwork usually terminates in these spaces. However, the reality is that even if you were to add ducts to supplement the building’s AC, relying on a system designed for humans is not a good solution for IT equipment.
Server rooms need more targeted cooling to keep the temperature within a specific range and prevent the servers from overheating. According to ASHRAE (the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers), the appropriate temperature range for server rooms is between 64.4 and 80.6 Fahrenheit. This requires a discrete cooling solution capable of monitoring and managing the temperature of both the equipment and the room. The same cooling system must also be capable of regulating humidity within the precise margins required by sensitive equipment. Finally, building HVAC will not provide sufficient airflow volume for heat removal from installed appliances; the CFM requirements for comfort cooling are significantly lower than airflow required to remove heat from the IT devices.
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Stay Cool: 8 Key Elements of Climate Control Systems
If you want to truly understand a language, you must first understand the vocabulary of that language and how it is used to convey information and ideas. As with any aspect of industrial enclosures, there exists a unique and important vocabulary in climate control and the products and services required to ensure industrial enclosures are adequately protected.
Understanding the vocabulary used in current climate control conversations provides a couple of valuable benefits for equipping enclosures with the right climate protection, specifically:
1). More effective communication between the climate system engineers, plant engineers, and maintenance managers.
2). Greater holistic knowledge about the industrial enclosure that requires a climate solution (to cool it, you have to know it).
The end result is a fluency with the vocabulary of climate control and the ability to make the most cost-effective and data-driven choice for any context or environment. With this in mind, let’s look at 8 key elements of climate control to better understand the vocabulary used in this aspect of the industrial enclosure world.
1). Enclosure heaters
Enclosure heaters are used to heat or stabilize the internal temperature of an industrial enclosure in relation to the ambient or air temperature. In addition, enclosure heaters are used to prevent moisture condensation on panels or other accessories inside the enclosure as well as maintain minimum temperatures for switchgear and controlgear setups.