BEHIND THE SCENES
Size doesn’t matter
Award for successful advertisement
If the slogan fi ts, then size is a contentious
argument. The advertising theme to promote the
PRC series of circular connectors not only drew
attention to the product in a clever way, but it was
so memorable that it has won two prestigious
prizes in one go.
The WEKA Ad Award is voted for by the
public. For the fi rst time, publishing house WEKA
Fachmedien invited its readers to vote on the
best ads from the electronics, automotive,
automation, and ICT sectors. With its publications,
the publishing house is actively involved in these
specifi c areas of interest.
The award ceremony was held on
November 14 in Munich. And the snappy
statement accompanied by the image of the
strong, hot drink was so catchy that Phoenix
Contact won both the prize for the best visual and
the best slogan.
Security when
it pops
Award for ImpulseCheck
With ImpulseCheck, the
assistance system for surge
protection, Phoenix Contact
has won the GIT Security
Award 2020 in this category.
Dr. Martin Wetter, Head of
the Surge Protection division,
accepted the prize at the SPS
trade fair in Nuremberg.
With the intelligent
assistance system, the state-
of-health, i.e., the current state of the surge
protection, can be called up online at any time.
In addition to monitoring the surge protective
devices, ImpulseCheck also provides a simple
and comprehensive analysis of the system’s
EMC. Possible disturbance variables are
detected before there is a system failure. This
makes service and maintenance approaches
easier to plan.
Innovator of the Year
Plugging instead of soldering
convinces jury
Phoenix Contact was awarded the title
“Innovator of the Year 2019” for the
ScaleX technology of its FINEPITCH
board-to-board connectors. Readers of
Design&Elektronik magazine voted it the
top innovation in the electromechanics
category. Torsten Janwlecke, President
of the Device Connectors business area,
and Markus Sonderer, Senior Director
of Product Marketing and Product
Development, accepted the prize at
the Weka Verlag awards ceremony in
Munich.
The FINEPITCH series is used to
connect printed circuit boards to each
other as quickly, reliably, and safely as
possible: with board-to-board connectors,
Phoenix Contact provides shielded and
unshielded solutions for signal and data
transmission for the fi rst time.
From telecommunications, to building and industrial
automation, to IoT applications – board-to-board
connectors provide you with space-saving solutions
for signal and data transmission. Even in industrial
environments that are rough and challenging. This
allows individual PCB orientations with different
designs, stack heights, and numbers of positions in
compact 0.8 and 1.27 mm pitches.
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Cost-cutting facility
Award for building management system
With its own Emalytics building management
system in use at the Bad Pyrmont location,
Phoenix Contact is reducing operating costs
there considerably. And with such innovative
methods that the system won the “Product of the
Year” award in the Smart Building category. The
prize was offered by the Weka publishing house.
The highly automated building is controlled
and monitored via the IoT-based building man-
agement system. Among other things, the energy
consumption of the building, the occupancy of
the meeting rooms, and the condition of the heat-
ing system can be called up via mobile phone.
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