Remote automation with podis®
Set your system free! Where rigid installations formerly impeded flexible configurations, podis® now frees control cabinets from power components for power distribution and from drive control and monitoring. The modularly designed podis® system enables you to establish completely new applications in remote automation.
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Power and auxiliary power or the AS interface bus signal are distributed in the field via a 7 pole flat cable. I/O modules, fieldbus interfaces and single-phase switches at the AS interface or Profibus-DP are installed in the required position near the consumer device without interrupting the power bus line.
The podis® CON power bus can be combined with the podis® ELECTRONIC interface modules to transfer not only data, but also to serially transfer the power required for the drives from module to module. Extremely heavy drive cables are replaced by one single power cable. This also aids electromagnetic compatibility: the interference spectrum is omitted that would be created within the system over several hundred meters when the drives are switched in a central control cabinet. Induced interferences are now limited to the connection cable from the remote motor starter to the drive –usually only a few meters. They are omitted completely when motor-integrated starters are involved.
Warehousing is reduced to a minimum because there are only a few different module variations.
Benefits
- Easy and quick installation
- Wiring errors are excluded due to coded power outputs
- Contacting without stripping the sheath or insulation
- Flexible addition of branch lines
- Connection of power outputs – pluggable or fixed
- Cable assemblies as required
- Optimal design of the power bus by means of the planning tool podis® PLAN
| podis® CONpodis® CON represents the family of passive components within the podis® power bus system. The 7 pole flexible flat cable is the basis to which additional components are connected interrupt-free using insulation-piercing termination. podis® CON includes all passive connection elements for fixed or pluggable power branches.
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| podis® ELECTRONICpodis® ELECTRONIC products include all active, remote components with control functionality for AS Interface or PROFIBUS-DP. They function as the links between the power bus and the fieldbus on the one hand and the I/O devices (consumer devices, sensors) on the other hand.
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| podis® PLANWith the planning tool podis® PLAN you can design the power bus for your system and determine the optimal configuration. After entry of supply and load parameters, the tool calculates the load figures and outputs them in graphic or table form. |
