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The Importance of Installation Accessories
The installation of warning signals is essential in most industries today. Doing it right makes the device more effective in keeping the workplace safe. Thus, the importance of correct installation can be assisted by utilising proper accessories on each warning...
Audible Warning Signals and their Functions
Wouldn’t life be strange without sound? Every day we hear different sounds that play a vital role in our living. They benefit our way of communication and make everything work smoother. The use of audible warning signals also assists our day to day living, and...
What are LED Status Signals?
Light signals equip many industries from possible danger, or loss of production due to machine breakdowns. They give out coloured lights to deliver a warning message among the workers around the area. LED Status Signals give a clear precise message to ensure there is...
What are Tower Beacons?
Signalling devices are known to be essential in most construction sites and related industries today. They aid manufacturing processes hugely way, which impacts the entire business’s income. What’s more, beacon devices help to secure each operations and even the...
How Do Combined Beacons & Sounders Work?
Ensuring the safety of entire business operations may demand more than one alarming device. Now available on the market is a range of single devices composed of an audible and visual warning, which brings higher convenience and many more advantages in the workplace....
Is Factory Automation Necessary?
Automation technology has been rising in the business field over the years. Many companies saw the importance of factory automation in production and services. Introducing Factory Automation Factory automation is indeed empowered by the advancing technology around us....
Beacon Technology in Construction
Most construction sites are now linking with beacon technology in all operations, as it changes the way such industries concern about the general public’s safety. The newest technology is the introduction of hazard warning beacons, as such devices promote worker...
Stacking Beacons on Crane Construction
Crane construction offers a wide range of services that greatly require the use of beacons. Without such devices, the overall operation would be dangerous for the workers and the public. What are Stacking Beacons? Construction works are much safer when stacking...
Combined Beacons and Sounders
As we know, both warning beacons and audible sounders have been available for some time. For convenience, these units are also available in a combined unit, giving both a visual and audible warning in one single device, which can have many advantages. The difference...
Warning Signals in Construction and Safety
How important are warning signals are in the construction industry? The construction industry has the highest level of risk in everyday operations, keeping in mind that safety is important to secure the business, as well as the workers. Safety must be the primary...
Case Study – LaserZone
LaserZone operate two leisure facilities - one is Castleford, Yorkshire and one in Brighton, Sussex. LaserZone is a space themed, hi-tech game of tag using electronic vests and phasors. The experience begins with a mission briefing, then the players get kitted up with...
techNOTE – Installation Accessories
The latest in our 2014 techNOTE series is published today aiming to help you select the very best product for your application. The series unpacks some of the product differences across our range and outline the pros and cons of some of the individual options....
Hannover Messe 2015
As a part of the Company’s strategic marketing plan for 2014/15, D. G. Controls Ltd will be back at the massive Hannover Messe exhibition next year. Running from 13th – 17th April 2015, the show offers a fantastic forum for meeting existing and not yet clients,...
techNOTE – Modular Stacking Beacons
The latest in our 2014 techNOTE series is published today aiming to help you select the very best product for your application. The series unpacks some of the product differences across our range and outline the pros and cons of some of the individual options....
Onsite Product Testing
At our site in Derbyshire we not only have our own in-house development but also testing facilities, including EMC (Electro Magnetic Compatibility) and Optical Laboratory testing equipment. This allows us to continually test and improve our products faster and...
Traffic Management Signalling
For Traffic Management, we have an advanced range of Multihead Indicators (Traffic Lights), and LED Indicator Panels, which are ideally suited to a wide variety of applications such as Loading Bay Signalling, Shutter Door Status, On-Site Traffic Management, Dockside...
News – June 2014
Our range of Status Indicators have become an increasingly popular, effective and affordable solution to all Traffic Management issues! This line of products has continued to grow over the years, and our 2 traffic light signals featured have been tried and tested on...
The ISB-T Combined Sounder Beacon is now IP66 rated!
We are pleased to announce that our ISB-T Combined Sounder Beacon is now IP66 rated. Following a request from one of our overseas distributors dealing with a large upcoming project, we had the ISB-T retested to IP66 which now makes it suitable for even more...
Sounders & Sirens
Electronic Sounders IP65 rated, 64 tone electronic sounders, with a maximum output of 114 dB. 3 different models available, IAS-C, IAS-E & IAS-T, offering different sized, shaped and coloured housings to cater for all requirements, with all 3 models having the...
News – May 2014
In-House Development. What a busy April..... Our in-house development team have been working closely with some of our overseas distributors during much of this month, challenging their years of experience and knowledge! The main focus during April has been...
Day 5
Well here we are then, the end of the 5 days of Live Below the Line. It’s been an over-whelming week both in terms of encouragement and in sponsorship from our friends and family. As I write this, the total you have donated to Tearfund stands at £362. I’d set...
Day 4
Today has been a great test of will-power as a group of friends came to our house and were treated to tea and biscuits whilst I had water. But being for such a fabulous cause, and it leading to more conversations about the whole food and money issue made it...
techNOTE – Beacon Installation
The latest in our 2014 techNOTE series is published today aiming to help you select the very best product for your application. The series unpacks some of the product differences across our range and outline the pros and cons of some of the individual options....
Day 3
I am seriously trying to rationalise that if the last Mini Egg stays in Sebastian’s bowl for too much longer without getting eaten, is this the same as me scrabbling in the bins for free food? – So therefore I CAN EAT IT?!! Needless to say, I am finding it a little...
Day 2
Day 2 started with thanks for thriftiness on Day 1! Having decided on today’s meals I was gutted to find the intended breakfast item, Basics Low Fat Yoghurt 4-pack at £0.33 was out of stock. With three little boys needing to get to school and only 15 minutes...
Day 1
So today was the day, the first of the 5-day long Live Below the Line challenge. An initiative conceived by The Global Poverty Project, the idea is to eat and drink on just £1 per day per person, the World Bank’s definition of “extreme poverty.” It is estimated that...
Multifunction Settings on our LED Beacons
With LED lighting becoming increasingly popular as a long lasting solution, it is important to us that our LED beacons have evolved to suit a wide variety of applications for which LED lighting is now being specified. This is why we now offer multifunction...
Live Below the Line 2014
Many of you will remember in 2013 when I and our three little boys took part in Live Below the Line. The challenge was to eat and drink for £1 per day per head for 5 days. We found it a revealing and interesting experience, and one which still shapes how we...
techNOTE – Sirens and Sounders
The latest in our 2014 techNOTE series is published today aiming to help you select the very best product for your application. The series unpacks some of the product differences across our range and outline the pros and cons of some of the individual options....
Battery Operated LED Warning Beacon
Our battery operated LED emergency beacon is shock resistant, waterproof and durable. It contains 16 high powered LEDs and offers 9 different light patterns, with a minimum run time of 5 hours and a maximum run time of 60 hours, depending on light pattern selected....