Industrial Process Applications

Modern day industrial facilities contain large amounts of microprocessor based equipment from control computers to field sensors. High speed data is transferred around a site to allow business decisions to be made which affect productivity and efficiency. The real time data used for such control and decision making would be useless if corrupt and, worse still, the complete loss of such a system would impact productivity and profits.

Much of the equipment is installed in harsh environments, subject to natural disturbances such as lightning and man made disturbances such as switching transient from motor pumps, welding equipment, and variable frequency drives. Small transient and disturbances on the AC or data cables, whilst not causing catastrophic damage, will be slowly stressing the internal microprocessors, ultimately leading to degradation manifesting itself in errors or complete failure.

A direct lightning strike can be catastrophic and cause safety related failures potentially causing plant shutdowns. The lightning does not have to strike directly. Even a nearby strike (within a few miles) can be damaging, causing minor failures and potentially stressing control or system hardware.

Surge protection can prevent the majority of upsets caused by surges and transients. It is essential as part of the plant infrastructure and can prevent downtime and lost productivity. In all areas reliability will be enhanced increasing availability and uptime. MTL Surge Technologies and Atlantic Scientific have been at the forefront of industrial surge protection for the past 15 years and have the product to protect your facility.

Applications

• Wireless Products
• Network Products
• Industrial Products
• Medical
• ITS