A single source for enclosures and essential accessories

As a specialist importer and distributor of a wide range of electromechanical components and sub-systems, Foremost can also support customers with a wide variety of necessary and complementary accessories. This enables customers to assemble a complete system while ensuring full compatibility, simplifying procurement, reducing vendor numbers, and better managing the supply chain.

Key accessories available from Foremost Electronics for any enclosure system include:

• Intelligent enclosure management with the compact design Guardian Management Gateway environmental monitoring platform. This can be fitted anywhere in a rack and provides 3 management ports to connect external sensors and Modbus devices with up to 16 sensors or devices per management port and features an auto orientation LCD touch display.
• Configurable 19" power solutions using the 19” Rack Safety Plus Power Distribution Unit with emergency stop system, which can be modified to suit application needs. Users can select the power input, power output, and includes additional features such as a surge arrester or EMC filter to suit the hardware infrastructure.
• Cooling and thermal management in rack cooling including fan trays and air/liquid heat exchanger as well as enclosure heating.
• Cable management products from a wide range of suppliers providing cable entry glands and frames for industrial and clean room use, EMC shielding, fire protection, and strain relief.

Dave Martin, Business Development Director at Foremost Electronics, says: “Selecting and buying a rack or enclosure is just the start of assembling a functioning system. A wide array of accessories are required to furnish the enclosure and fit internal electronic and electromechanical systems and protect them from environmental conditions. Foremost can help customers to complete their design by providing a wide range of accessories from market leading manufactures, simplifying sourcing, and ensuring compatibility.”

Foremost Electronics have been a direct importer and specialist distributor of electro-mechanical components including enclosures and accessories, connectors, control knobs, thermal fuses and optoelectronics, man-machine interface, and switching products since 1989. Foremost are also a supplier of joysticks and controllers for both OEM and stand-alone applications and have specialist online stores for IP joysticks and electric vehicle connectors and accessories.