Industrial networks and fieldbus.
Fibre backbones, industrial Ethernet and fieldbus sized for a production hall.
What a production hall does to cable
Dust on every surface, vibration off the line, damp left by washdowns and forklift traffic in the aisles. An office-grade installation survives that for a while. Then it starts failing intermittently, and finding the fault eventually takes longer than the original installation did.
An intermittent network fault is the worst possible fault type for you, because it does not look like an electrical fault. It looks like the line is bad.
What we install
Fibre backbones, industrial Ethernet, PROFINET and PROFIBUS segments, switch cabinets and patching. Data routes are kept away from power and well clear of drive cabling. In practice that usually means one more tray than the drawing allowed for, and it is worth saying so at the quotation stage.
Measured and recorded
Every link is measured and the results come with the handover pack. They are worth keeping. A few years on they are the only way to tell whether the network changed or something else did.
HOW A PROJECT RUNS
- 01
INPUT DATA
Layout, device list and destination. That is enough to start pricing. On a process we know, a figure usually comes back in a day or two.
- 02
SCHEDULE
The installation period and the commissioning window are agreed before work starts. Resourcing is locked down at the same time, because that is where overruns are made.
- 03
INSTALL
Routes walked before anything is pulled, labelled before anything is live. The site is cleared daily. You know where the job stands without having to ask.
- 04
COMMISSION
Loop checks, dry runs and running with material alongside your automation engineer. Commissioning inspection and handover documentation in the agreed form.
The questions that usually come first.
Do you measure the links?
We do. The result forms part of the handover pack.
Fibre or copper?
Fibre for backbones and anywhere there are drives, welding or long runs. Industrial copper for the last stretch. Sizing is done segment by segment.
Can you connect into the end customer’s existing network?
Yes. We look at what is there and what condition it is in first. You hear the findings before the connection is agreed, because an old network is surprisingly often the thing that brings a new line down.
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