Diversified industrial
manufacturer Eaton
Corporation is introducing the
SmartWire-DT™ panel wiring solution
into the Indian market. Already
available in Europe and North America,
the system is designed to
reduce panel wiring
complexity, improve system
reliability, save installation
time and reduce panel space.
Transforming the way
original equipment
manufacturers (OEMs) build
control panels, the solution
replaces the myriad wires
found in the control circuit
with a single cable,
connecting motor control
components to customers'
programmable logic controllers (PLCs).
"Eaton is committed to providing
innovative solutions to address the
critical power management needs of
customers by improving system
reliability and efficiency," said Anoop
Nanda, Managing Director-South
Asia, Southeast Asia & Japan, Electrical
Sector, Eaton. "Fundamentally, the
SmartWire-DT system addresses a
critical concern for panel builders by
dramatically reducing the wiring effort
required to build panels, as it
eliminates the time needed to cut,
strip, mark, bundle, and check
numerous individual wires."
The SmartWire-DT
system is engineered to
reduce panel wiring
complexity and assembly
labor time, speed the startup
commissioning processes
and provide extensive runtime
diagnostics. It links
standard motor control
components within the
panel, separate distribution
panels or remote control
stations and creates
communications enabled
devices. Additionally, the SmartWire-
DT flat cable connections safeguard
the control panel from unauthorized
wiring changes, helping to protect the
craftsmanship and integrity of the
control panel.
The SmartWire-DT panel wiring
solution uses an eight-conductor, flat
cable located in the control cabinet to
connect motor starters, push button
actuators and indicator lights. The
start of the system is a SmartWire-DT
gateway, which establishes the
connection to standard
programmable logic controller (PLC)
fieldbuses, including PROFIBUS-DP
and CANopen.
The SmartWire-DT network
directly integrates the input/output
(I/O) level in the switching devices.
As a result, no conventional PLC I/O
modules are needed; instead,
communication enabled modules
are attached to standard Eaton
motor control components. Thus,
the PLC in the control cabinet
simply consists of a central
processing unit (CPU).
Typical faults like loose connections
and mis-wired terminations are
reduced with the SmartWire-DT
solution, by using the flat cable and
the specialized connectors. Devices on
the SmartWire-DT network are
automatically addressed with the
push of a button on the gateway,
assigning addresses in the order that
the devices are connected. The system
continuously monitors all devices on
the network changes.