Embed Size (px)
DESCRIPTION
Eaton Power Quality Customer Newsletter
Citation preview
1 | 2009 Eaton Power Quality Customer Newsletter
Eaton brandEaton brand
Uninterruptible Uninterruptible power for BMW power for BMW Sauber’s Sauber’s supercomputersupercomputer
BuildingBuilding
Global Switch chooses Eaton for its Paris data centre
Page 4
Page 6
Page 9
2
Electronic version of the newsletter isavailable at www.eaton.com/powerware
Eaton Power Quality Customer Newsletter
Published by
Eaton EMEAEaton Power Quality OyKoskelontie 13, 02920 Espoo, FinlandTel. +358 9 452 66 1Fax +358 9 452 66 396www.eaton.com/powerware
Editor-in-chief
Anita [email protected]
Managing editor
Elisa [email protected]
Editorial
PR Agency Conexio
Layout
ISSN 1795-9314
BelgiumEaton Manufacturing LP BelgiumTel. +32-2-348 44 [email protected]
Tel. [email protected]
Czech RepublicEaton Electric s.r.oTel. +420 234 769 [email protected]
DenmarkEaton Power Quality DenmarkTel. +45 368 67 [email protected]
FinlandEaton Power Quality OyTel.+358 9 452 [email protected]
FranceEaton Power SolutionsTel. +33 1 60 12 74 [email protected]
GermanyEaton Power Quality GmbHTel. +49 7841 604 [email protected]
ItalyEaton Manufacturing LPTel. +39 02 955 42 [email protected]
Middle East, East Africa & Central AsiaTel. +971 4 881 1933 [email protected]
The NetherlandsEaton Manufacturing LP NetherlandsTel.+31 (0) 78 652 16 [email protected]
NorwayEaton Power Quality NorgeTel: +47 23 03 65 [email protected]
North Africa & French Dom-Tom Tel: + 212 22 95 77 [email protected]
PolandEaton Power Quality SA Oddzial w PolsceTel. +48 22 331 85 [email protected]
PortugalEaton Manufacturing LP PortugalTel. + 351 21 421 74 [email protected]
RussiaEaton Power Quality Oy Moscow branchTel. +7 495 981 37 [email protected]
SlovakiaEaton Electric Solutions s.r.o.Tel. +421 244 637 [email protected]
SpainEaton Power Quality S.L.Tel. +34 902 104 [email protected]
Sub-Saharan AfricaTel. +225 212 415 [email protected]
SwedenEaton Power Quality ABTel. +46 8 598 940 [email protected]
UKEaton Power Quality LtdTel. +44 (0) 1753 608 [email protected]
Eaton Corporation is a diversified power management company with 2008 sales of $15.4 billion. Eaton is a global technology leader in electrical components and systems for power quality, distribution and control; hydraulics components, systems and services for industrial and mobile equipment; aerospace fuel, hydraulics and pneumatic systems for commercial and military use; and truck and automotive drivetrain and powertrain systems for performance, fuel economy and safety. Eaton has approximately 75,000 employees and sells products to customers in more than 150 countries. For more information, visit www.eaton.com.
Eaton’s electrical business is a global leader in power distribution, power quality, control and industrial automation products and services. Eaton’s global electrical product lines, including Cutler-Hammer®, Moeller®, Powerware®, Holec®, MEM®, Santak®, and MGE Office Protection Systems™ provide customer-driven PowerChain Management®
solutions to serve the power system needs of the data center, industrial, institutional, government, utility, commercial, residential, and OEM markets worldwide.
Eaton Corporation
3
New challenges, better solutions
Editorial
In spite of today’s turbulent economic climate, some things do not change: Eaton® will always aim to offer ever-better products and services to its customers. Our ongoing brand strategy transition, whereby all company brands are being united under one st-rong Eaton brand, supports this aim by making it easier for customers to recognise our trusted name. The Eaton brand now also encompasses a wider product and service range than ever before – globally.
Our strive for excellence has also been recognised by external evaluators: Frost & Sullivan, a global growth consulting firm, has awarded Eaton the title of 2008 Compa-
ny of the Year in Europe in the Uninterruptible Power Supplies (UPS) Market. The award is presented annually to a company that has demonstrated unparalleled excellen-ce within its industry and exhibited outstanding management and consistent growth. The recipient company also has to offer high quality products and/or services and have a positive social and economic impact on local and national communities. Eaton was presented with the award because of the company’s combination of customer-driven initiatives, product-line innovations, acquisitions and geographic expansion.
We are grateful for this recognition and eager to continue on the same track in the future. At this time of increasing economic uncertainty, we want to continue to offer our customers products and solutions that help secure critical business assets at a time when no company can afford to lose business due to power disturbances. Securing critical assets gives our customers the confidence to face future challenges and tackle them as a winner.
From everybody at Eaton, we wish you a very successful 2009!Anita Putkinen
Editor-in-Chief
4
Eaton’s Power Quality business has revised its
brand strategy in order to provide an all-inclusive
power quality product portfolio under one brand
– Eaton. From now on, Powerware and MGE
Office Protection Systems branded products will
fall under the Eaton brand.
Building
5
uch has changed within Eaton’s Power Quality busi-ness over the last year, in-cluding the integration of the
MGE Office Protection Systems brand. Last summer, Eaton Corporation launched a global effort throughout its different businesses to strengthen knowledge of Eaton as a world-wide technology leader. To support this glo-bal initiative and further Eaton’s commitment to providing its customers and partners with the best power quality solutions, the compa-ny established a brand transition strategy for its Power Quality business.
“The main objective of the brand transi-tion strategy is to build a single Eaton brand that is stronger than the sum of its parts at meeting the needs of Eaton’s customers and partners,” summarises Mathieu Verley, Mar-keting Communications Manager of Eaton’s Power Quality division in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
“With the recent acquisitions of MGE Office Protection Systems and Phoenixtec®, we have become the clear number two provi-der of power protection, distribution and ma-nagement solutions worldwide – number one in many countries. Despite this, we are not fully recognised as Eaton in all of our markets. Some of our partners and customers still re-fer to us under the Powerware or MGE Office Protection Systems brands. Now is the time to build awareness around one single brand – Eaton,” Verley emphasises.
LOCAL PRESENCE, GLOBAL RESOURCES
The single-brand strategy embodies Eaton’s brand promise: to make what is important work in ways that deliver value for everyone – customers, employees and shareholders.
“By focusing on understanding the ‘big picture’ challenges of our customers and ot-her stakeholders, we can deliver innovative solutions that help them achieve their true objectives,” Verley outlines. “As we combine our acquisitions under a single Eaton brand, we can offer our partners and customers an extensive range of power quality solutions and services that provide the best possible answers to their specific needs.”
During the last few years, Eaton has strengthened its local presence around the
world considerably. The strong position is due in part to the integration of the acqui-red companies’ local sales forces as well as massive partner network expansion. “Com-bining local presence with the resources of a global brand allows us to provide partners and end customers with all the local support they require,” he points out.
ONE BRAND, TWO PRODUCT SERIES
The new brand strategy is aimed at creating one consistent product portfolio under the main Eaton brand that is further divided into product series.
“The former Powerware and MGE Offi-ce Protection Systems brands are currently transitioning to become the Powerware and Pulsar series under the Eaton brand. This change allows us to link legacy brands to the Eaton brand, thereby establishing a stronger Eaton identity,” Verley describes.
SYNERGY BRINGS ADDED VALUE
According to Verley, the new brand strategy provides Power Quality partners and custo-mers with a whole host of benefits.
“As we move to Eaton, our stakehol-ders will gain more benefits with the Pulsar and Powerware series than with the same offer in the past. By incorporating the exper-tise in advanced technology and know-how of some of the market’s most respected players, we are able to deliver a compre-hensive product selection. In the future, we will integrate our different industry-leading technologies into all of our new products to provide customers with the most efficient solutions and services available.”
This single-brand strategy helps com-municate a consistent brand image among employees as well.
“Internally, we benefit from simplified brand management and reduced operatio-nal complexity, as well as increased leve-rage of all marketing activities to build one name, improve visibility and increase com-petitiveness. We are all now Eaton, sharing the same values and benefiting from the di-versity of our team’s history. I am confident our customers will see the benefits of these improvements as well,” says Verley.
SMOOTH TRANSITION THROUGH
TARGETED COMMUNICATION
The first phase of implementing the new brand strategy took place at the end of last year, when Eaton started introducing its brand through a series of advertisements and marketing materials, explaining what Eaton is and where the company comes from. The second phase, taking place in ear-ly 2009, is focused on communicating the brand transition to all of Eaton’s partners and customers.
“We wanted to ensure a smooth brand transition at all levels. We have minimised the changes for our stakeholders’ busines-ses and have communicated our strategy ex-tensively to ensure everyone is thoroughly informed about the change. One example of this is the decision to keep the same part numbers and references for all of our exis-ting products in order to avoid confusion,” Verley points out.
Because an important part of Eaton’s Power Quality business is done through channel partners, targeted communications were created for different partners, explai-ning all about the brand transition – what will happen and when, what will remain the same or change, and how the partners could contribute to the transition. Eaton is also conducting increased sales and support programmes to assist its partners in their bu-siness efforts.
“Our activities in strengthening the distribution network was one of the main reasons why we were recognised as the 2008 European UPS Company of the Year by Frost & Sullivan,” Verley concludes.
”Powerware and MGE
Office Protection
Systems brands become
the Powerware and
Pulsar series under the
Eaton brand.”
6
Uninterruptible power for
BMW Sauber’s supercomputer
It’s the final lap of the Canadian Grand Prix, and BMW Sauber is
winning with both cars in the lead. By narrowly edging out their
competitor David Coulthard, drivers Robert Kubica and Nick Heidfeld
achieved an historic one-two finish for BMW Sauber. In Formula 1
racing, fractions of a second often make the difference between victory
and defeat. The aerodynamic characteristics of the cars thus become a
key factor. That is why BMW Sauber has a specialist on its development
team – Albert 3.
Success story
7
lbert 3 is a supercomputer – the largest and fastest in Europe and the third fastest industrial-use computer in the world. This
38-ton giant processes complex aerodyna-mic models for vehicle development. His calculations are critically important for the success of the team – so they need to be able to depend on Albert at all times.
With Albert 3 playing such a critical ro-le, system downtime is simply unacceptab-le. Current and voltage irregularities can’t bother Albert 3 since he is protected by an uninterruptible power supply. And that is no easy task – the team has very high expec-tations of the UPS. The search for a cutting-edge system with the best fault tolerance available and a small footprint led the BMW Sauber F1 team straight to the Eaton 9395.
PROTECTION FOR A MISSION-CRITICAL
TOOL
Competing since 2006, BMW Sauber quick-ly made a lasting impression. But the two drivers don’t command all the glory – the credit goes to the entire team for maintai-ning a consistent level of perfection. And that applies to Albert 3, too.
The supercomputer has been suppor-ting BMW Sauber since December of 2006 at the team’s production facility in the Swiss town of Hin-
wil. The 450 employees are constantly improving the cars, with 80 people working on aerodynamics alone. The process of tes-ting, modifying and tes-ting again continues well into the race season. The team needs at least eight hours after a race to disassemble a car, check and replace individual components, and rebuild it.
Albert 3 performs calculations including grid models containing over 100 million cells to design everything from front, rear and si-de wings through to engine and brake coo-ling systems. The key concept here is CFD, or computational fluid dynamics, which are computer-aided flow simulations. The mo-dels allow the developer team to test the impact of changes in the design on perfor-mance virtually before performing time-con-suming and expensive modifications to the actual car.
SEARCHING FOR A POWERFUL YET
ENERGY-EFFICIENT SYSTEM
The UPS is certainly a critical part of the BMW Sauber developer team. If Albert 3 is
the brains behind BMW Sauber development, then the UPS is the heart: It ensures that the
brain is continually supp-lied with blood, in this ca-se clean electricity. And that’s not an easy job: Al-bert 3 has 4,224 proces-sor cores and 8,448 giga-bytes of RAM. His maxi-mum performance is 50.7 teraflops, or over 12 trilli-
on floating point operations per second. This massive computational power is housed in an equally massive construction.
Over three stories high, Albert 3 weighs in at 38 tons and resides in the basement of the wind tunnel building at the Hinwil facili-ty. In mid-2007, Albert 3’s performance was quadrupled, doubling his power requirements to 350 kW; the UPS needed to grow to meet these de-mands. What Albert 3 nee-ded was a system with state-of-the-art technology that could reliably provide this level of performance. The team also wanted a system with excel-lent energy efficiency and exceptional fault tolerance, all within the smallest footprint possible – not an easy combination to achie-ve. But BMW Sauber found the ideal soluti-on: the 9395, with its modular, energy-effi-cient construction and redundant operation fulfilled all the team’s requirements.
NO MORE CONCERNS ABOUT DOWNTIME
The 9395’s standout feature is its modular, load-balancing system design that utilises scalable power modules. This approach ma-
8
eissner Power Systems, Eaton’s distri-butor in the Republic of South Africa, received last year a substantial order
to supply backup power systems to a leading South African bank, Nedbank, for its branches countrywide.
Nedbank identified the risk of continued po-wer failures as a threat to its business model that not only inconvenienced customers and se-verely hampered service delivery but also had a negative impact on the bank’s IT infrastructure. During the early part of 2008, the bank decided
to install backup power systems for its premier banking halls, where high client vo-lumes are experienced.
The backup power systems support three different banking applications: smaller bank kiosks in large retail locations (such as supermarkets), banking halls in Nedbank branches countrywide and 10 of Nedbank’s Private Banking Centres, where high-profile clients cannot afford to have power interruptions compromise their critical fi-nancial transactions. Meissner supplied a mix of 10, 15, 20 and 30 kVA Eaton 9355 UPSs for the three-phase applications along with Eaton 9120 and 9155 units for the appropriate single-phase sites.
The bank chose Eaton UPSs primarily for their compact footprint which incorpo-rates the batteries within the unit. The ability for Nedbank to monitor the UPS sys-tems over its IT network was another significant reason for selecting Eaton. This al-lows Nedbank to both maximise system performance and be proactive in terms of maintenance.
Graham Beyleveld, Meissner’s Sales Director, says that the company’s relation-ship with Nedbank goes back many years. “Meissner has a solid track record and has been a trusted UPS supplier to Nedbank for over 20 years.” With branches country-wide, Meissner offers the best service footprint for reliable after-sales service and support for Nedbank’s 403 sites.
kes an energy-efficient and redundant sys-tem possible. Two modules rated at 225 kVA ensure the UPS is always ready. Additional protection is provided by a third redundant module with an additional 225 kVA, allowing the UPS to achieve 99.99 percent availabi-lity. The 9395’s double-conversion techno-logy fully protects Albert 3 from all power cuts and voltage irregularities without inter-ruption.
Using active input power factor cor-rection, the 9395 is able to achieve an in-put power factor of 0.99. This means the UPS represents an almost completely ac-tive power load consuming only minimal reactive power. With a power factor out-put of 0.9, the 9395 is ideally suited to the supercomputer’s input power factor. This means hardly any energy is lost on reactive power during power transmission. The UPS attains an overall efficiency of 94.5 percent, resulting in considerably lower power loss and heat dissipation.
The BMW Sauber F1 team’s experien-ce so far has been very good – the system is running smoothly, and the team no longer has to worry about downtime. With backup power at the ready, the team was able to run the 2008 season with full confidence in Albert 3. The early season one-two finish in Canada is proof that the team – with Albert 3 and the 9395 at its heart – is working like a well-oiled machine.
Ensuring reliable power for a leading South African bank
Power failures are simply not an option in banking. The compact size and
WAN monitoring features of Eaton’s UPS systems led Nedbank to choose
Eaton’s partner Meissner to ensure power quality for the bank’s business-
critical systems.
Success story
9
ritish company Global Switch owns and operates IT hosting centres in Europe, Singapore and Australia.
Established in 1998, the company provi-des data storage solutions globally. In Fran-ce Global Switch serves several major CAC 40-listed companies. These companies re-quire high-quality data storage centres with optimum resilience, security and flexibility.
At Clichy-Levallois, in the Paris suburbs, Global Switch has established one of the biggest operational data centres in France. And to guarantee power supply for the cent-re, Global Switch has installed Eaton three-phase UPS systems. Eaton delivered the last of the UPS units in February 2008.
A SINGLE UPS SUPPLIER
Global Switch and its clients had been ope-rating UPS systems provided by a variety of suppliers on the Clichy site since 1999, when the “Global Switch Paris 1” centre was ori-ginally designed. In 2005, of the 16,000m2
of floor space available, only 6,000m2 had been developed – the remaining 10,000m2
was still available for rental.After the company decided to target
CAC 40 companies – the 40 biggest com-panies listed on the French stock exchange – and system integrators, demand for its so-lutions took off. To meet its requirements, Global Switch began the search for UPS so-lutions to cover its entire Paris data centre.
TESTING OF MISSION-CRITICAL
EQUIPMENT
“We wanted to harmonise our installations and create a consistent management pro-cess,” recalls Tim Bailey, Managing Director of Global Switch France.
“We offer our clients a high-security building with a clean, ultra-secure system. For example, our electrical systems have an N+1 rated architecture for mission-criti-cal services. And we needed a testing sys-tem for our equipment that would meet the most stringent requirements. This was a pi-votal factor in the choice of UPS solution, sin-ce UPS systems are vital to the quality of our installations.”
FLEXIBLE, HIGH-QUALITY SYSTEMS
AND SERVICE
Global Switch had previously purchased Eaton´s Powerware units, most recently for its data centre facility in Singapore.
“For the Paris site, the company opted for 400 kVA UPS systems with 1200 kVA centralised bypass, equivalent to more than 12 MVA backup power capability,” explains Franck Moquadam, Sales Manager in char-ge of the Global Switch project at Eaton. “The flexibility of our systems and the high-perfor-mance technology, with a power factor of 0.9, coupled with the service quality, were all determining factors.”
Global Switch agreed a Premium Care overall service contract for the equipment. “What really made us go for Eaton was the quality of the offer as well as their high-qua-lity engineering, testing laboratory and after-sales service,” Bailey adds.
A QUESTION OF TEAMWORK
Tim Bailey continues: “In 24 months, from the end of 2005 to the end of 2007, we fitted out the remaining 10,000m2 of available floor space. Today, the Clichy data centre is filled to capacity. We are very happy, and our lo-yal clients readily acknowledge the quality of our installations. Indeed, some of them are ready to follow us to our second operational building in Paris, scheduled to open in 2010.”
Furthermore, Global Switch professio-nals participated in setting up an Eaton su-pervision tool, Powervision, in October 2008. One of the key features of this tool is that it allows maintenance teams to monitor all UPS units from a single platform and display event logs and a real-time value analysis.
“This adventure was a real challenge, and success was possible only through the excellent teamwork and close collaboration between the participating personnel on both sides. We are proud to have been able to meet the stringent installation quality and faultless service requirements that Global Switch so rightly demands,” Franck Moqua-dam concludes.
France’s leading IT hosting company has established
one of France’s biggest operational data centres with
the help of Eaton’s power management expertise
and technology.
Global Switch chooses Eaton for its Paris data centre
10
brings sustainability
to higher power ranges
The Eaton 9395 UPS product family in
EMEA markets welcomed a new member
in January – the new 825 kVA model. The
addition of this new power rating extends
the innovative capabilities of the 225–550
kVA systems to even more powerful UPS
systems. This new UPS helps to protect
business-critical processes in a wide range
of sectors, including data centres, telecoms,
finance and manufacturing as well as
research and medical facilities – in fact,
anywhere where data processing, storage
and power protection are vital.
The 9395 is an exceptionally reliable way to pro-tect and secure critical business assets. The system’s two integrated uninterruptible power modules (UPMs) ensure continuous power supp-ly to the device even in the unlikely event of one of the modules failing.
“This inherent redundancy technology ensu-res that a fault in the UPS does not interrupt ope-ration; instead, operation simply transfers to the other module. This gives the Eaton 9395 a signi-ficant reliability benefit over competitive UPSs,” explains Jari Nieminen, Product Manager at Ea-ton. As with all other 9-series Eaton UPS sys-tems, the 9395 protects connected equipment against all of the nine most common problems: power failure, power sag, power surge, undervol-tage, overvoltage, switching transients, line noi-se, frequency variation and harmonic distortion.
SUSTAINABILITY = COST SAVINGS
Eaton’s UPS systems are scalable thanks to Eaton’s patented Hot Sync® technology, so it is easy to adapt an Eaton system to changing po-wer requirements. “Data centre growth can be unpredictable,” Nieminen points out. “The 9395 is designed to be upgradable so that by adding additional modules, the device can deliver N+1 redundancy or provide extra capacity. This can lead to considerable cost savings.”
As well as increasing UPS reliability and adaptability, the 9395 is also a major develop-ment in terms of delivering more sustainable UPS applications for Eaton’s customers. New technology increases UPS efficiency to an im-pressive 94.5 percent, thereby improving energy efficiency and reducing cooling costs.
Eaton 9395
Make a sustainable choiceChoose the Eaton 9395 and win a green prize at
www.powerware.com/emea/9395Campaign
New products
11
The 650 and 800 have an innovative, feature-packed design: eight standard socket out-lets, high-performance lightning arrester, four sockets with battery backup (up to 30 mi-nutes) and surge protection. The line protection function covers an internet, DSL or te-lephone line. The 650 is suitable for protecting a family PC with an internet connection and peripherals or for those who want to protect a PC and multiple digital devices with one easy-to-use piece of equipment. The 800 is ideal for professional and office use, and for those with demanding power requirements.
The EcoControl function automatically disables peripherals when the master device is turned off, resulting in substantial energy savings. The 650 and 800 have one master outlet for a desktop PC or TV/HDTV and two EcoControl outlets for non-cri-tical peripherals. The EcoControl’s activation and threshold settings are easily adjustable using the management software included – simply connect the device to a Windows-, Mac- or Linux-based PC via the USB port.
The Protection Station is designed to be easy to use. The integrated handle makes it easy to carry around and allows easy access to the connection ports, and the battery is easy to replace. There is also a user-accessible cir-cuit breaker reset. The Protection Station also includes a periodic test and battery replace-ment indicator as well as an unlimited value warranty for the connected equipment in ca-se of power fluctuation damage. The integ-rated lightning arrester, with status indica-tor, complies with IEC Standard 61-643-1.
The Eaton Protection Station 650 and 800 will be available in March 2009.
Eaton’s new-generation Protection Station 650 and 800 provide eco-efficient, all-in-one power protection
The Eaton Protection Station is ideal for protecting home computers and digital
leisure equipment against power-related breakdowns and current fluctuations.
The EcoControl function of new 650 and 800 versions delivers up to 30
percent power savings compared to previous-generation devices. Additional
features such as efficient electrical design, compliance with RoHS (Restriction
of Hazardous Substances Directive of EU), and a package and user manual
made from recycled materials, make these new-generation devices more
environmentally friendly than ever.
Eaton 9395 received the 2008 Frost & Sullivan Pro-
duct Innovation Award in the North American Three-
Phase UPS Market. The 9395 was commended for its
reliability, energy efficiency and feature-rich protecti-
on that make it the most innovative and trustworthy
power protection technology on the market.
The Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Inno-
vation is presented each year to the company that
has demonstrated excellence in new products and
technologies within its industry and shown innovati-
on by launching a broad line of emerging products
and technologies.
Award
The 9395 is less than half the size of its competitors, and it weights 60 percent less – this means lower freight costs and a smal-ler footprint. “The 9395 is a great example of how product sustainability and customer benefits go hand-in-hand,” Nieminen says. “In simple terms, the sustainable features of the 9395 save our customers money.”
HIGH-QUALITY PERFORMANCE AND
USABILITY
The 9395 uses Eaton’s advanced IGBT rec-tifier, which guarantees a high input power factor of 0.99. In practice, the UPS remo-ves the disturbances in mains power caus-ed by energy conversion. Furthermore, the IGBT rectifier removes the need for sepa-rate harmonics filters by minimising the to-tal input harmonic current distortion (THD) to less than 4.5 percent. The 0.9 output power factor makes the 9395 the best performing UPS on the market and provides 13 percent more power than traditional UPSs with 0.8 power factor.
The 9395’s excellent power performan-ce and reliability is achieved by prolonging the battery life of the UPS. Battery life is significantly improved compared to other charging methods thanks to Eaton’s ABM®
technology. ABM is based on three-stage charging system that allows the batteries to rest between charging cycles. The 9395’s wi-de range of connection options also make it easy to manage.
The Eaton 9395 1100 kVA will be avai-lable in June 2009.
What kinds of products does Eaton offer
for the home and small-office customer?
We have a wide range of products, from surge suppressors – such as the Protection
Christophe Jammes
Eaton’s acquisition of MGE Office Pro-
tection Systems has strengthened its
position in the retail sector and brings
customers new solutions for their po-
wer protection needs. Christophe Jam-
mes, who is responsible for single-pha-
se UPS product management in EMEA,
tells us more about Eaton’s products for
homes and small offices.
Sustainability is a fundamental feature of Eaton’s products, which incorpo-rate leading-edge technology to help
customers utilise energy more efficiently. However, there are also products and so-lutions which go well beyond normal envi-ronmental standards and provide exceptio-nal benefits. These products and solutions are granted Eaton’s Green Leaf certificate, which demonstrates that their outstanding eco-friendliness is credible and has been substantiated.
A Green Leaf-certified product is one that has inherent eco-friendly characteris-tics, and a Green Leaf solution is a product
Sustainable by design
The Eaton Green Leaf certificateThe Eaton 9395 UPS earns its Green Leaf certification through its superb energy efficiency and a 50–70 percent weight reduction compared to competing pro-ducts. The 9395’s manufacturing process also requires 80 percent less energy and has lower energy requirements for tes-ting than previous models.
The 9395 deploys a more efficient double-conversion system than legacy products: While legacy products conti-nuously execute a double-conversion po-wer, the new 9395 uses an ‘energy saver’ mode with up to 99 percent efficiency, where the UPS adapts itself to the power load. This saves a substantial amount of energy and translates into less heat and reduced heating, ventilation and air-con-ditioning (HVAC) requirements.
Green Leaf-certified solution:
the Eaton 9395 UPS
Strip and Protection Box ranges – to UPS systems, including the Protection Station, Ellipse and Eaton 5110 products. Surge sup-pressors protect delicate equipment by fil-tering the power supply to protect against surges, interference and the indirect effects of lightning; they are usually considered to be the first level of protection. For more de-manding needs, a UPS adds backup time and power management capabilities.
Why do homes and small offices need
power protection?
First, power supply problems may re-sult in hardware damage. Customers invest lots of money in home digital leisure devices and computers, so it’s important not to lea-ve them unprotected. Besides, we are mo-re and more dependent on the equipment we have at home and in our offices. Imagi-ne what would happen if your home router or modem was damaged and you lost your internet connection! In some countries this might mean losing your telephone line and television signal as well. Another important reason for paying attention to power protec-tion is the valuable data – such as photos and music – we store on our computer hard drives at home.
How significant is the single-phase UPS
business for Eaton in EMEA?
Eaton sells more than half a million pro-tection devices in this market every year.
The market is not only interesting in terms of revenues but it is also important in levera-ging brand awareness; people who buy UPS devices for their homes are also the decisi-on makers when it comes to business-rela-ted UPS applications.
Where can I buy single-phase power
protection devices?
Surge suppressors and UPSs are avai-lable from online retailers, high-street IT shops, wholesalers and so on. These devi-ces are usually cheaper than people think. For example, surge suppressors usually start at around €10 and UPSs at around €70–80, depending on the country.
Are these devices easy to use?
Yes, very easy. You simply plug them in – they don’t require any configuration. When connected to a PC, the UPS is automatically recognised and it appears as a power source in your Windows system tray.
What developments are on the horizon
for this business area?
2009 will be the year of green featu-res providing energy savings for homes and small offices. Eaton is about to launch a new generation of single-phase UPSs that will al-low up to 30 percent energy savings compa-red to previous models. I don’t want to give too many details away in this connection – you can read more in this newsletter!
or a product system with environmental be-nefits that are based on its correct usage. Before being awarded the Green Leaf certi-ficate, products and solutions are thorough-ly evaluated by Eaton’s review panel in or-der to identify overall environmental impact throughout the product’s or solution’s lifeti-me. The application and related documenta-tion are carefully reviewed and their consis-tency, validity and compliance with federal and international guidelines assured.
For more information on Eaton’s Green Leaf certificate, visit: www.eaton.com/green-
solutions
Spotlight
