Industrial Surge Protection Is More Important Than Ever

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As our lives become more technologically driven, we are more reliant upon industrial processes to not only manufacture the goods that utilize, but also to provide the connectivity and safety that we rely upon.  Most things ranging from the clothing that we wear to the cell phones in our hands are reliant on the industrial process in order to make our lives more convenient.  Industrial facilities having evolved over time to be far more technologically advanced than they ever have been in the past.  Advanced computer equipment and microprocessors as well as other circuit driven equipment are now found in almost every manufacturing process, and the costs that we pay as consumers are direct reflections of the improvements in speed and efficiency of these processes that has been caused by the integration of technologically advanced equipment.  Aspects of the process which are impacted in a negative way, or shut down completely will ultimately result in consumers’ needing to pay more for goods and services, or except a lower standard from the connectivity wear safety we have come to grow used to.  Many of these negative impacts on industrial processes come from the natural events like lightning strikes.  The direct strike to the equipment used industrial facilities is rare, but will generally cost significant amount of damage both at the strike point and as a result of the subsequent power surge.  The way that direct strikes are protected against our through the installation of overhead shielding and grounding equipment.  Strikes that happen to the power and connectivity lines which run outside of the facility are less rare and more problematic.  The power generated by the lightning strike travels along these lines effectively.  This causes massive amounts of electricity to come into direct contact with the equipment which is utilized in the process, ultimately damaging the circuitry needed to keep these processes online.  The chain of events which happens as when equipment piece is affected and then the next can create the catastrophic event where the equipment is so damaged than it needs to be replaced completely.  These types of events take the process is offline and ultimately create slowdowns which will increase customer prices.  Through the integration of surge protection devices in a redundant format and installed as close to the equipment as possible, these types overvoltage events can be mitigated if not avoided altogether.  This allows for industrial facilities to continue to maintain operations in a more effective manner and for longer periods of time, allowing prices to remain low for the consumers.  The industrial processes that result in connectivity also are able to remain online for longer timeframes, translating into the larger ability four people to be productive themselves.  In this way, our own personal lives rely upon industrial surge protection directly.  From the clothes we wear to the computers that we use and the internet we connect to in order to provide our own additions to productivity, we are depending on industrial surge protection more than ever.