Siemens launches 5-year warranty across SCALANCE range

The SCALANCE industrial remote communication portfolio is designed primarily for use in diverse industrial applications. The comprehensive range is tailored to meet data communication requirements across varied industries and provides users with highly efficient industrial networks and bus systems.

Ian Poulett, Head of Sales - Industrial Communications & Identification, Siemens UK & Ireland, comments: "This warranty extension is designed to offer greater reassurance for manufacturers using our SCALANCE portfolio of solutions. SCALANCE meets the varied communication needs of our customers across a range of industries and ongoing investment in the range, as well as our wider industrial communications offering, is geared towards helping manufacturers meet industry challenges now, and in the future."

Providing powerful, future-proof network components and wiring systems for fast, pre-assembled connections on site, as well as high-speed redundancy for enhanced availability and signalling concepts for permanent network component monitoring, the portfolio incorporates:

• SCALANCE X - Industrial ethernet switches which for all types of switching tasks
• SCALANCE W - Industrial wireless LAN which opens up more flexibility in network planning and even provides protection against failures with respect to personal and machine safety
• SCALANCE M - These industrial modems and routers network widely distributed plants or machines with a wide range of modems and routers - via telephone, mobile wireless or Internet, depending on requirements. The M range was recently extended with the addition of three new routers designed for applications where wireless communication is either restricted or impossible, for example in water treatment plants or in medical environments
• SCALANCE S - Industrial security product portfolio which offers security systems specifically for industrial automation technology to avoid risks with respect to data security

For further information on industrial communication and the SCALANCE range, visit www.siemens.com/remote-networks.