Site operators sometimes ask about how to make their equipment intrinsically safe. For example, one firm inquired about how to make its 480V motors intrinsically safe. Such a lack of understanding of ...

Littelfuse, Inc., the global leader in circuit protection, has introduced the PICO® 259-UL913 Series Intrinsically Safe Fuse, the first and only Fuse to be certified under the latest revision of the ...

In harsh industrial environments, the presence of gases, airborne dust and petroleum products can be highly explosive when a spark or high temperatures are affecting the surrounding environment.

Intrinsic safety (IS) is an electrical design approach that prevents explosions from occurring by ensuring that the energy transferred to a hazardous area is well below the energy required to initiate ...

While hazardous conditions are a fact of life in industrial plants, end users, safety organizations and automation suppliers are doing everything they can to ensure products are explosion-proof, ...