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 ...

Article 501 through 503 form a trilogy. Art. 505 provides an alternative to Art. 501; Art. 506 provides an alternative to Art. 502 and 503. Between these two sets is Art. 504. It’s sandwiched there ...

North American companies are beginning to move toward intrinsically-safe systems, already well established in Europe, that use currents and voltages too low to spark an explosion in a hazardous ...

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, ...