Enhance the performance and reliability of your products with innovative equipment protection

Your customers' business is at stake!

The problem:

As technology continues to develop, process equipment continues to increase in functionality, efficiency and cost, while reducing in size. Inevitably, critical processes are becoming increasingly dependent upon less equipment to manage more information at greater speed and more efficiently.
The result is that your customers' business is increasingly dependent on the up-time of a few key systems; the consequence of system failure and downtime is potentially catastrophic.

Ensuring protection of these key business assets against disaster is imperative. Corrosive smoke contamination is one of the primary risk factors to the operation of business-critical equipment. Traditional building specifications and protection systems only address the fabric of the building, and not the damage to assets such as product, stock, equipment and property.

As a further risk factor, the cause of such events is often an electrical or electronic fault. The automatic response of 'powering-down' can have severe consequences on business continuity: production and service downtime, and data and revenue loss.

The technology solution:

VESDA provides the optimum protection of business-critical equipment by detecting smoke in the pre-combustion stage; allowing earliest warning and proactive investigation of potentially catastrophic thermal events.

This very early warning also reduces reliance on suppression activation and the consequent incidence of additional equipment downtime and damage. A VESDA system provides time:

Time...to investigate the source
Time...to allow for backup of critical data
Time...to switch over to redundant systems
Time...to safely shutdown critical processes
Time...to resolve the situation
Time...to prevent catastrophic loss of hardware, software, work in progress and data

Your Customers trust YOU to protect their investment:

Your customer sees use of equipment protection integrated in your product as having many advantages:

Utilization of existing monitoring and management systems.
Seamless system integration and ease of use by equipment operators.
Streamlined installation, maintenance and service via one supplier.

Your customers see equipment protection as a service you should provide for their business. Fairly or not, customers often see the protection of your equipment as a responsibility of your equipment.

Integration also offers you advantages as a designer and manufacturer enabling:

Greater sophistication and performance of protection solutions.
Reduced duplication in design and manufacture.
Efficiencies in deployment, installation and maintenance.
Enhanced economies of scale, and
Strong market differentiation

...The result? An expanded feature-set and superior value product to ensure market success.

Learn more

VESDA Total Equipment Protection
How can you prevent downtime for your customers due to a thermal event? This brochure outlines how a VESDA smoke detection system can be integrated into process equipment to provide the earliest possible warning of overheating electronics or other sources of fire.

What can VESDA smoke detection do within your products?
By providing the earliest possible warning of smoke, a VESDA system buys time. Time and information that can be used to prevent downtime and asset damage.

Total Equipment Protection applications
What type of equipment is suitable for integrating VESDA smoke detectors into? Here are some examples.

How VESDA works
View this short animation (Quicktime movie) showing how a VESDA smoke detection system works.

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