Etion Create’s years of experience to provide solutions for harsh environments associated with Defence & Aerospace environments, complements the expertise required to supply Mining & Industrial solutions to our clients.
Our proficiency in this market sector is further supported by the systems engineering approach that we follow, similar to the practice followed in Defence & Aerospace system development.
Through our ODM service business model EC is a primary supplier of a variety of products and solutions for mining and industrial applications.
In partnership with a global OEM of mining health and safety systems, EC has served the mining industry over more than a decade with innovative products that has raised the level of safety across all mine sectors spanning from deep hard rock mines to surface mining.
Products such as man portable devices that monitor hazardous gas conditions to Proximity Detection Systems (PDS) that provide early warning of potential collision conditions between man-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-vehicle, are examples of solutions which are required in South African mines and supplied in a partnership model between EC and our client-partner.
In the industrial sector, Etion Create’s VF360 VPX boards from our range of Embedded Products are used in volume as part of the control and protection units found in Voltage Source Converters of High Voltage Direct Current (HVDC) converter systems.
HVDC technology is used in power grid systems which interconnects two AC networks, by converting AC to DC, and DC back to AC utilizing modern power electronics technology.
These form part of large smart grid infrastructure solutions across the globe where low-loss power transmission over long distances is of utmost importance. Offshore wind farms are typical users of this technology.
