In a lighthouse the structures may appear old and dignified, but the technology inside is modern and robust. Low operating costs, availability and long maintenance intervals are the decisive criteria ...

Without doubt, managing energy costs while driving sustainability and efficiency is one of the biggest power management challenges that facility professionals face today. While advances in technology ...

Africa’s energy transition is happening now. Population and economic growth are major factors that play a role in increased energy consumption and the evolving energy landscape. The era of the Internet ...

Swiss manufacturer LEM has released its new traction catalogue describing railway current and voltage transducers. The new catalogue outlines the various technologies used by an isolated transducer design, ...

Yokogawa has announced the availability of the GX90XA-10-V1 high-voltage analog input module. This new product has been released as part of the OpreX Data Acquisition family of data collection and control ...

At this year’s Hannover Messe, Siemens presented another medium-voltage switchgear that doesn’t require SF₆ as the insulating gas, the 8DAB 12. The system uses clean air consisting only of the natural ...

Siemens offers comprehensive onsite assessment solutions to keep its customers’ switchgear systems up and running.

For more than three decades, the cornerstone of network reliability and availability – the uninterruptible power supply (UPS) – has ensured the protection of hardware, software and data for small, medium ...

Electric motor applications require a reliable, robust fit-for-purpose product that gives the end user the requisite low total cost of ownership. Fanie Steyn, manager for rotating machines at Zest WEG ...

The motorised size changeover of machine spindles or machine axes is now being implemented in various ways. The solutions to this are often relatively rudimentary with no hand-wheel or crank being rotated, ...

RS Components now stocks the latest Phoenix Contact Quint Power DIN-rail power supplies, giving easy access to the innovative features and flexibility of these space-saving PSUs. The fourth generation ...

ElectroMechanica (EM) has supplied the Socomec Digiware system to a large South African corporation’s head office in Sandton, where it is being used for electrical metering in compliance of a Green Star ...

Data centres rely on the optimal performance of equipment, so unwanted surges on the power supply lines can cripple operations. In fact, these energy spikes can cost significant amounts of money in recovery ...

Building maintenance technicians for commercial, retail or institutional facilities with fluorescent lighting have hundreds, if not thousands of fluorescent tubes that have to be routinely checked and ...

Gigavac’s MX Series extended performance impervious ceramic (EPIC) sealed AC and DC contactors are designed to meet MIL-R-6106 and are especially suited for military vehicles and heavy duty applications. ...

Method of operation Pyrogen is the ideal choice for in-cabinet systems. It is essentially a non-pressurised canister that contains a potent fire extinguishing compound that consists primarily of potassium. ...

Gigavac’s HX Series Epic (extended performance impervious ceramic) hermetically-sealed, high-voltage DC contactors are among the smallest UL508, approved contactors for 1000 V hot switching. Since first ...

Comtest has announced the availability of Fluke’s range of three-phase power quality loggers – 1742, 1746 and 1748 – giving users fast, easy access to the data they need to make critical power quality ...

Local genset manufacturer, Zest WEG Group, believes that those involved in the purchasing decision as well as the end-users of standby power generation systems need to apply more attention to engine selection ...

The pressure to improve energy efficiency is constant and intense, particularly for electric utilities, since changes to power production and distribution can have a cascading effect that influences the ...