To meet the needs of one of the world’s largest petrochemical companies, Dexter Solution Systems and Belden were asked to provide a redundant industrial Ethernet and WLAN network according to IEC ...

Decreased system reliability due to overloaded power supplies is a common engineering challenge. In this Q&A-style article submitted by Allied Electronic & Automation, David Norton, technical ...

Adding to the company's arsenal of DIN-rail power supplies are two modules that enable parallel and redundant operation plus battery back up and uninterruptible power supply (UPS) functionality for a ...

The MOD10 series online three-phase UPS system features a modular, vertically scalable rack-mounted design that offers power protection needs in incremental steps without interruption to the critical ...

One of the most common concerns about using wireless for mission critical applications has always been—and still is—reliability. Will it work in your noisy environment? Will it be robust enough to ...

Fig 1. In this typical redundant power system, three power supplies interface in parallel to the system load via internal ORing diodes. Fig 2. This HFE1600 series 19-in. rack-mount redundant power ...

The convergence of information technology (IT) equipment and telecommunications networks has brought about the need to power equipment with a variety of input requirements. Designers of today's ...

Two redundancy protocols have recently been standardized by the International Electrotechnical Commission as IEC 62439-3. Both protocols allow systems to overcome any single network failure without ...

Wireless solutions are often thought to be tainted by susceptibility to interference and lack of reliability. Despite recent technical improvements, wireless transmission technology still elicits ...