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Cameras & Monitors
Video equipment can reach into many hazardous areas. Common uses include security surveillance, thermography and pollution control monitoring. Most applications normally revolve around modifying or encasing the existing camera, but cost are usually negligible. |
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Displays & Annunciators
Displays and annunciators are one of the easiest devices to protect, simply because they require only limited access. Typical installation savings may run into thousands of dollars, and the equipment is protected from all elements of the environment. |
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Local Control Panels
Adapting general purpose meters, lights and controls for use in a hazardous area requires little more than a sealed enclosure, a sealed door for limited access, and a protection system. In this application, intrinsic safety barriers are located within the enclosure (a safe area) and receive signals from the flow rate transmitters located in the nearby pipelines. |
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Filling & Weighing
Beginning with the controls, protection of a filling or weighing system is simple. Weigh scale platform equipment is usually easy to pressurize, or may be available in intrinsically safe versions. From there, filling equipment, such as solenoids, motors, servos and dribble valves can be protected in a number of ways. To complete the application, on-site, real-time printouts of tickets, reports or product labels can be obtained by adding custom-built pressurized enclosures for the printing equipment. |
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CNC Machinery
Conventional CNC (Computer Numerically Controlled) machinery cannot typically be used in a hazardous location. Pepperl+Fuchs BebcoEPS has satisfied many applications, including some very unusual needs, such as the milling of plastic explosives for military applications and the stretch wrapping of pallets loaded with bags of highly ignitable dust, by carefully examining and modifying various CNC machines. |
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Robotics
Robotic machines are placed into many hazardous or toxic areas. Pepperl+Fuchs products are there too, utilized to allow robotic equipment to perform tasks such as automotive paint spraying, silicone chip production and carbon fiber lamination of aerospace parts. Motors, servos, sensors and on-board electronics are easily protected with a combination of intrinsically safe barriers and pressurization systems. In most cases these upgrades require only limited modification of the original machine. |
