Farnell expands predictive maintenance offerings

The distributor now stocks a wide range of industrial components that can monitor facilities’ power, drives and motors to provide alerts when automated systems are at risk. Farnell also provides numerous technical resources to help customers stay informed in the ever-changing maintenance landscape.

“Today’s skilled labour shortages have made it even harder for many of our customers to address any problems that arise in their operations,” said Cliff Ortmeyer, Global Head of Technical Marketing from Farnell. “Our latest products offer state-of-the-art advancements in the Industrial Internet-of-Things (IIoT) to help reduce the cost, time and effort required to implement predictive maintenance solutions.”

Some of the newest products now available to Farnell manufacturing customers include:

• SIMATIC Series HMI Touch Screens from Siemens: Designed for implementation of high-performance visualisation applications on the machine-level. High performance, functionality and numerous integrated interfaces offer the greatest convenience in high-end applications.
• OsiSense XS Series – Inductive Proximity Sensor from Schneider Electric: Contributes to machine performance and machine compactness with a wider adjustment range. Helps increase the profitability of your solution.
• Fluid Level Controllers from Omron: Built to detect liquid levels. A variety of conductive liquids can be controlled using this method. Used in a wide range of industrial applications including iron and steel, food, chemical, pharmaceutical, and semiconductor industries.

Farnell continues to make investments in their industrial product range, which has grown by 50% in the past 12 months.

Customers can choose from over 80,000 available industrial products from over 42 industrial manufacturers including Schneider Electric, Honeywell, Siemens, ABB, Omron and Omega.

Farnell also provides technical resources to help keep manufacturers informed of the latest best practices around predictive maintenance. Some of the instructional offerings from Farnell include a whitepaper on predictive maintenance with Industrial IoT and the new e-Techjournal Industrial automation - all the power & control, along with a webinar recording on predictive maintenance and IIoT.