Managing enclosure access is a design consideration that must be taken into account during the product development process. Granting or preventing access to an enclosure can be accomplished in multiple ways. Byline: Jonathan Coulter, Commercial Product Manager, Southco, Inc.

The increasing mobility of equipment in the medical environment raises new cause for concern, especially when managing access to valuable or hazardous items, or the confidential data stored within. When using mobile medical equipment, making patient care supplies available when needed while protecting them against unauthorised access is a challenge.

Today’s clinical research labs use a wide range of automated tools to perform their vital tasks, including large-scale centrifuges, high-speed liquid sampling systems, storage refrigerators and other equipment.

Southco has expanded its line of electronic rotary latches with a new version that facilitates equipment security upgrades.

Southco has introduced a new cable accessory for its Surface Mounted AC-15 Rotary Latch Actuators, the first multi-point rotary latch pull system on the market.

Southco has launched a new wireless access system featuring the Keypanion app, a revolutionary smart access app that lets users wirelessly actuate latches from their smartphones.

Southco continues to expand its rotary latch portfolio with new versions that can enable electronic actuation and provide an electronic door status signal.

After numerous occasions whereby Dog&Drive founder, Karl-Heinz Kamlage, watched animals struggling to haul themselves in and out of vehicles at his wife’s veterinary clinic, he and his team of engineers decided that there had to be a smart solution to this problem. Thus became, Dog&Drive’s unique, hand-crafted boarding application.

by Cindy Bart, Global Product Manager, Southco, Inc.

Southco has expanded its line of inject/eject mechanisms with a new line to fit the E1.S form factor.