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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.

Consulting

As soon as we receive an inquiry for an engineered solution, a detailed analysis of the specific application and individual requirements is our first step—in order to ensure a deep understanding of your needs. This includes comprehensive consultation and close collaboration with you. Based on that, our experts develop a first solution proposal as well as a timeline and a budget plan.

Portfolio

As an expert in explosion protection, we can draw on a broad range of products and technologies for hazardous areas that are the basis for our engineered solutions. Depending on the application and your individual requirements, we choose the best combination of products to solve your task in the best possible way.

Engineering and Planning

In the Solution Engineering Centers around the world, our experienced engineers take care of the detailled engineering of your solution. They design a model of your solution and create manufacturing documents and customer approval drawings. Once you have given your approval, the required material is procured, and the solution is ready for manufacturing.

Manufacturing and Assembly

The explosion protection solutions are fully assembled in our SECs own production facilities around the world. Assembly parts are manufactured, and raw materials as well as purchased parts are ordered. As soon as everything is available, our experts assemble the finished solution step by step. Whether in a dedicated production line for configured solutions or in the manufacturing area for engineered solutions, we find the fastest way to implement them.

Quality Assurance

Every SEC has an in-house quality assurance. Here, the finished solution is put through its paces again before it is ready for your acceptance. Individual test procedures and the use of specific testing software according to your demands are possible, if required.

Factory Acceptance Test (FAT)

As soon as a finished solution has passed our quality assurance, it is ready for the factory acceptance test (FAT). Our SECs offer on-site FAT areas where your personal contact person goes through the solution together with you.

Certifications

Thanks to decades of experience in electrical explosion protection, we are familiar with all relevant norms and standards (e.g., ATEX, IECEx, UL) as well as other country- or industry-specific certifications. Our standards experts are involved in the process of an engineered solution from start to finish so that they can be delivered with the corresponding declaration of conformity and the required certification.

Packing and Shipping

Whether packed in a wooden crate or wrapped in plastic, we prepare your customized solution for shipment exactly as you need it. From our six SECs around the world, the finished solutions make their way to you.

Broad Portfolio

Customized terminal boxes
  • 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
Control solutions
  • 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
Purge and pressurization solutions
  • 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
Interface cabinet solutions
  • 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
three kinds of Remote I/O solution with various modules and components installed.
  • 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
a variety of HMI solutions including a mobile monitor and a duplex monitor solution
  • 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
  • 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 distribution solutions
  • 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
  • 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)

Contact Us

Do you have questions or do you need an engineered solution for hazardous areas tailored to your needs? Simply fill out the contact form, our experts will be happy to help.