5
Mar
Rittal was approached by Powerfish, a Scottish-based panel builder and electrical engineering business, with a brief to design and deliver robust, flexible, and easy-to-install panels for a renewable energy customer.
5
Mar
What classes a certain enclosure as special? The ability to reduce production and assembly times? To deal directly with issues that conventional enclosures cannot tackle? Or maybe the enclosure is completely bespoke and fabricated, tackling a direct application.
5
Mar
Why light an enclosure? A more appropriate question is: why wouldn’t you? It is a simple safety measure; fumbling around in a dark enclosure cabinet where high voltages could be present is risky, to say the least. It’s best practice to keep the enclosure visible and clear – good lighting is essential to ensure optimal inspection and safe control conditions.
5
Mar
PBSI spoke with Graham Lockhart, Head of Sales at Eastron Europe Limited, about the company’s product offering, business during COVID-19, customer support, and its competitive edge in the marketplace.
5
Mar
Fortunately, I love travelling, which is just as well, as six years ago I was asked to source a large volume of low-voltage control and automation products for a major global distribution customer. Every year since then, I've spent a lot of time in India, China, Taiwan, America and the EU at exhibitions and visiting factories to assess manufacturing quality and negotiate volume prices with many manufacturers.
5
Mar
It’s easy to underestimate the innovation potential of the humble DIN rail terminal block. Many of us have a ‘go-to’ block/brand because we are happy, or at least satisfied, with what it gives us. This leaves us free to focus on far more pressing technical issues in the more complex areas of our panel or machine.
5
Mar
The demand for flexible, modular systems is shaping the world of automation, control and machine building. Decentralisation of system components has proven to be an important factor in this growing trend. It speeds up the system planning process, simplifies installation and maintenance, and facilitates future expansion.
5
Mar
During the second week of February 2021, we celebrated National Apprenticeship Week. The annual week-long celebration, which took place across England, aimed to showcase how apprenticeships have helped employers and people of all ages and backgrounds.
17
Feb
This article looks at the difference between IP67 vs IP68 and how they are becoming more important for electrical items and for electrical safety.
2
Feb
Panel design is an art. A well-designed panel strikes a balance between form, function, and cost. This can be difficult considering that an attempt to do so is an attempt at achieving the best of those three worlds.
13
Jan
Electrical control manufacturers are currently being placed under considerable pressure. Projects are becoming more complex, the trading environment is extremely competitive, and customers naturally want to keep their costs to a minimum.
11
Jan
In a wireless age, the use of cables may be losing its function in some industries, however for others, the role they play is as important as ever. In the case of manufacturing, as technology becomes increasingly integrated so does the prominence of cables.
8
Jan
Here, Neil Ballinger, Head of EMEA at EU Automation, offers an overview of three sectors where the difficulties of 2020 have originated new opportunities for 2021.
5
Jan
Welcome to PBSI’s first issue of 2021! Whilst the cold winter nights mean that the average person’s heating bill rises, for data centres, freezing temperatures may cause serious issues.
5
Jan
Mico Pro is Murrelektronik's innovative 24 VDC current monitoring system. The modular design makes it possible to create systems that fit any 12/24V application perfectly – which adds value by creating a cost-benefit ratio that saves space in the control cabinet. Murrelektronik's patented tripping behaviour ensures maximum machine availability.
