Digitalised industrial automation up to Zone 1

Waldenburg, Germany – As a proven expert in explosion-protected products, R. STAHL is authorised to certify customer-specific systems for Ex-protection areas. R. STAHL develops and produces complete system solutions for digitalised system automation around the world based on its comprehensive product portfolios, which are certified in accordance with ATEX, IECEx, NEC and many other standards. The service portfolio spans from switching components and distributor technology, as well as signal and data transmission to visualisation, operating technology and camera technology. The latest Remote I/O System IS1+ from R. STAHL currently offers the most state-of-the-art and cost-efficient digitalisation platform for bidirectional signal transmission from Zone 1. The Remote I/O, which is completely backward compatible, is equipped with pioneering functions for predictive diagnostics, IP communication and redundancy options. It is ideal for migrating existing conventional installations to digital, Ethernet-based environments without complex adaptations.

Thanks to a combination of a wide variety of protection types, flexible, secure communication channels up to Zone 1 are available for fieldbus networking, FO, Ethernet and Wi-Fi communication. R. STAHL has expert teams from sales and application engineers that support users beyond Ex protection, helping them gain additional certifications such as SIL classification, FDA and GAMP validation or ship approvals for planning, engineering and commissioning of automation projects. In addition, the company also actively participates in designing standards in European and international committees and contributes its expertise to future projects such as Ethernet-Advanced Physical Layer (Ethernet-APL), NAMUR Open Architecture (NOA) or Open Process Automation Forum (OPAF).