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PRODUCT
YEAR
OF THE
Safety First
Award-Winning Safety
in a Compact Design
Purge and Pressurization Systems For nearly
25 years, the Pepperl+Fuchs Bebco EPS® brand
has been synonymous with reliable explosion
protection in purge and pressurization. This past
summer, readers of Plant Engineering magazine
confirmed that notion by selecting the Bebco
EPS 5500 as its Product of the Year in the cat-
egory of Electrical Safety.
Each year this prestigious award begins with the magazine’s
editors, who develop a short list of products in various
categories. They then ask readers to make their selections
among 100 finalists. In 2015, the editors tallied the votes,
and the compact Bebco EPS 5500 was this year’s winner.
Its compact design and fully automated functions make the
Bebco EPS 5500 extremely efficient. An automatic start feature
and automatic temperature and leakage control minimize
unplanned downtimes.
Designed for easy installation, the housings are also globally
certified for Zone 2 and Division 2. The ingenious enclosure
protection vent leads the industry, enabling these units to
tackle the challenges of nearly any application, indoors and
outdoors.n
Doug McEldowney – Business Manager,
Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
“Rockwell Automation has been collaborating with Pepperl+Fuchs for
more than 20 years to ensure our customers have access to robust
and integrated process control system capabilities. By working together,
we continue to leverage the deep industry knowledge that our respective
engineering teams bring as we address complex customer problems.
We are confident that this partnership will continue to provide differen-
tiated solutions to the industrial market as customers proceed on their
journey to build a Connected Enterprise.”
Nobuaki Konishi, Vice President für System Business
Division, Yokogawa Industrial Automation Platform
Business Headquarters
“We decided to work with Pepperl+Fuchs – the market leader – due to
the company’s extremely high level of expertise and innovative capacity
in the field of intrinsically safe interface systems. Pepperl+Fuchs
understands our requirements and those of our customers by making
their backplane size the same height as the Yokogawa standard N-IO
backplane, to allow customers to maximize their cabinet space using
intrinsic safety barriers.”n
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