Process automation

Automation, electrification, and digitalization of your production facilities and their infrastructure.
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Future-proof modernization of process plants

Highly complex production plants in the process industry must be able to keep pace with constantly growing demands on safety, security, availability, reliability, and efficiency, even under extreme conditions. Precise data acquisition, transmission, and processing is crucial. Discover our innovative products and systems for the digitalization, monitoring, and sustainable modernization of your production facilities and their infrastructure.

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Technologies


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Security and openness

Discover our technology highlights for the electrification, networking, and automation of your process automation systems, including modern communication technologies such as Ethernet-APL.

Products


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Comprehensive product portfolio

We offer a range of products and systems from the fields of connection, communication, and automation technology for typical control, monitoring, and optimization tasks. They allow you to reliably capture, transport, and process data. Discover our product highlights:

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Principles of explosion protection

This document is intended for plant engineers and planners in potentially explosive areas. It covers international standards and directives. Operators of electrical equipment in potentially explosive areas will find information on which explosion protection criteria their plants must meet. There is also basic technical information on Group I and Group II, Ex zones, MCR technology, and functional safety.

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