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Machine availability Machine availability plays a critical role in avoiding costly downtimes. There is nothing costlier for you or your customers than a machine that is down. Downtimes lead to production losses and incur extremely high costs. Therefore, the reliability of the components and the high-level availability of the machines have top priority.

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Product overview

Type 2 surge protection devices for installation in machine control cabinets
Protection against overvoltages
Increase the safety and availability of your machines with effective surge protection in the feed-in, as end device protection, and upstream of the signal interfaces.
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Overview of various electronic circuit breakers
Selective fuse protection for circuits
Device circuit breakers enable you to provide individual protection for your equipment: solenoid valves, servo motors, or industrial PCs. In the event of an error, only the affected actuator or sensor is shut down.
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Product portfolio of the rugged TRIO POWER power supplies
Reliable supply under harsh conditions
Reliably supply your control cabinet and system with energy: Our robust power supplies have been optimized to meet the stringent requirements of machine building.
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QUINT POWER power supplies for maximum machine availability
Reliable supply with SFB technology
QUINT POWER power supplies trip miniature circuit breakers quickly and reliably. Faulty current paths are deactivated, with important machine parts remaining in operation.
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Intelligent uninterruptible power supplies for DC applications
Uninterrupted supply with IQ technology
These intelligent uninterruptible power supplies supply your machine reliably, even if the supply network drops out.
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CONTACTRON hybrid motor starter product overview
Switch motors intelligently with hybrid technology
Switch and reverse motors quickly and reliably with the compact CONTACTRON hybrid motor starters. The service life is ten times higher in comparison with purely mechanical switching devices.
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Solutions for high system availability
Power reliability - endless options

Coordinated solutions consisting of surge protection, power supply, and device protection are necessary to ensure efficient production. With the extensive Phoenix Contact portfolio, you ensure superior system availability.

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Conveyor belt with emergency switching off switch
Increasing the availability of conveyor belts
In machine building, conveyor belts are intelligently switched and turned with CONTACTRON hybrid motor starters.
To the solution: Increase the availability of conveyor belts
Modular production line made up of in-house machine building from Phoenix Contact
Manufacture without interruptions on a modular assembly line
Our in-house machine building relies on QUINT POWER power supplies for high availability in the assembly lines.
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Power supply solutions
Power supplies, DC/DC converters, redundancy modules, and UPS.
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Electronic switching devices and motor control
Motor starters and solid-state contactors
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