Global Engineered Solutions for Hazardous Areas
Consultation, Engineering, Manufacturing and Final Certification From a Single Source
Safety is our top priority. This is why we offer a complete portfolio of products for hazardous areas based on decades of experience in explosion protection. In addition to our standard components, we support you with customized solutions designed to meet your individual needs. In close partnership with you, our experienced experts in our dedicated Solution Engineering Centers (SECs) plan, develop, and design customer-specific solutions. You receive ready-to-use, complete solutions from a single source—in a variety of explosion protection types, including certification for hazardous areas. The basis of every solution is a deep understanding of your individual needs and intensive consulting throughout the entire process.
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Smooth and Efficient Project Flow
Pepperl+Fuchs has decades of experience in the field of engineered solutions for hazardous areas with thousands of solutions delivered
Understanding and Realizing Customer Needs
Intensive consulting from Pepperl+Fuchs and cooperative development with the customer throughout the entire process
Fits any Application
Ex-certified complete solutions tailored to specific customer needs and ready for installation directly out of the Solution Engineering Centers (SECs)
Peace of Mind
Our experienced solutions team will guide your solution through the application process, ensuring project finances and timelines stay on track
Investment Protection
Sustainable process automation solutions for both existing and new infrastructures
Solution Engineering Centers (SEC)Around the World
Throughout the entire process of an engineered solution, we always work in close collaboration with you. This is why Pepperl+Fuchs has set up Solution Engineering Centers around the world. The SECs are dedicated to engineered solutions for process automation that meet your individual requirements. No matter where you are, our experts take care of everything for you: from consulting to drafting the proposal and initial solution, to engineering and designing, to manufacturing and assembly, to the final solution, including certification.
Broad Portfolio

- Broad portfolio for the safe conduction, connection and distribution of electrical energy in hazardous areas and harsh environments
- Small junction boxes or complex, freely configurable terminal boxes
- Large selection of enclosures made from highly durable materials
- Standardized variants available from stock
- Configured solutions available at short notice
- Extensive range of accessories

- Tailor-made control solutions for electrical explosion protection: from compact control units to control stations and complex control and distribution panels
- Numerous enclosure sizes and operating elements available
- Integration of electrical components and operating elements according to specification
- Selection of viewing windows for monitoring instruments

- Complete pressurized enclosure solutions consisting of control units and predefined and certified enclosures
- Use of conventional electrical equipment in explosion-hazardous areas
- Various systems and types of protection for every requirement
- Fully automatic monitoring of enclosure pressure and temperature development
- Menu-guided user interfaces provide maximum ease of use

- Complex interface solutions from a single source: intrinsic safety barriers, signal conditioners, surge protection, and power supplies
- Control cabinets optimized for control-specific solutions
- Tailor-made down to the smallest detail
- Modules for mounting on DIN rails, power rails, or termination boards

- For highly efficient connection of various devices and signals with 4…20 mA, temperature measurement conversion, valve control, and various other functions
- Pre-assembled GRP or stainless-steel field junction boxes with backplanes and redundancy options
- Reduced wiring effort due to bus interface to the control system
- Effective digitalization with HART communication in retrofit projects and extensions to existing systems

- HMI solutions with flexible mounting options: pedestal, panel mounting, wall and ceiling mounting, mobile systems
- Various communication technologies: remote monitor (thin clients), PC, or direct monitor
- Suitable for continuous operation in harsh environmental conditions and explosion-hazardous areas
- Special features such as shock and vibration resistance, outdoor suitability for chemical plants, and GMP-compliant design for life sciences and pharmaceutical applications
- Large selection of peripheral devices: RFID readers, keyboards, or 1-D/2-D code handheld readers, and more

- Ethernet-APL solutions for end-to-end digital communication from the field level to higher-level systems
- Ready-to-install and pre-wired plug-and-go solutions
- Fast transmission of large amounts of data
- Fully certified in GRP or stainless-steel enclosures
- Integrable into a single enclosure with remote I/O systems and other I/Os for intrinsically safe discrete and analog signals

- Fieldbus solutions for reliable connection of instrumentation via FOUNDATION Fieldbus H1 or PROFIBUS PA
- For all common explosion protection methods (FISCO, Entity, High-Power Trunk) and every hazardous area
- Pre-assembled and pre-wired fieldbus junction box enclosure made of GRP or stainless steel
- Discrete inputs and outputs can be integrated via multi-input/output component
- Temperature multiplexer for eight signals at one address

- Wireless access point solutions for the use of industry-standard access points (e.g., Cisco or Aruba) in hazardous areas
- Rugged enclosures made of GRP, stainless steel, or aluminum
- Optional integration of Ex-certified antennas for optimum network coverage
- Installation of other radio-based components possible (RFID, UWB, BLE, LoRaWAN)
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