Innovative automation concepts for automobile-specific requirements

Comprehensive know-how due to a long-lasting partnership

Components and solutions for the automotive industry

Phoenix Contact has been an important partner in the automotive industry for more than 20 years. The close cooperation that started with the development of the INTERBUS fieldbus system in 1987, has over the years been instrumental in the development of various other components and solutions that have significantly increased the economic viability and availability of production systems.

There are, for example, the FO technology, the INTERBUS Safety system as well as the extremely rugged I/O components and space-saving functional modules.

Detailed information about INTERBUS Safety system

Futuristic solutions for all fields of production

Components and systems from Phoenix Contact are used in all automotive production fields.

They are resistant to the high vibrations of the press lines as well as the electromagnetic loads in the car body shops, free of varnish-wetting substances and can be optimally used in the decentral structure of engine production and final assembly.

Production fields in the automotive industry

Within conveying technology, our solutions lead to a considerable reduction in installation and maintenance costs.

Maximum independence using open standards

The automation solutions used in the automotive industry should be economical, reliable and easily modifiable and expandable as well as manufacturer-independent.

Therefore, components and systems from Phoenix Contact are based on international standards. Our control systems are always programmed using the IEC61131 software PC WORX. But we also use the Ethernet protocols Profinet and EtherNet/IP for realtime communication and the wireless standards Bluetooth and WLAN for wireless data transmission.

Components and solutions based on international standards

Detailed information about PROFINET

A one-stop shop - all over the world!

National and international projects from Phoenix Contact

Being automation experts, we do not acquire but use our experience, that we have gained through numerous national and international projects, to develop new components and systems as well as optimize the existing ones.

The result is a comprehensive product portfolio that includes cables, connectors and sockets as well as surge protection, power supply units and safety relays apart from the automation-specific hardware and software.

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