RS and RS PRO drive network and thermal reliability in smart factories

The RS PRO Total Panel Integration portfolio offers industrial-grade Ethernet connectivity and active enclosure cooling products engineered to streamline panel design, maximize uptime, and deliver competitive savings.

FORT WORTH, Texas, Oct. 7, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- RS, a high-service global product and service solutions provider for industrial customers, streamlines smart factory operations with its RS PRO Total Panel Integration portfolio. This unified product ecosystem simplifies panel design, protects sensitive electronics, and lowers total cost of ownership for organizations across industries.

Control panels drive facility-wide system reliability and uptime, and as smart factory initiatives accelerate, uptime becomes increasingly crucial to maximizing production output and avoiding financial losses and scheduling delays. 

Maintaining reliable performance in today's automated industrial facilities requires seamless data communication and active heat dissipation to safeguard core power and control hardware. The high-performance networking and active thermal management products in the RS PRO Total Panel Integration portfolio eliminate communication bottlenecks and dissipate heat to prevent thermal failures, ensure signal integrity, and reduce total panel costs.

Key networking and thermal management solutions in the portfolio include more than:

• 1,800 network and Ethernet cables, many of which are heavy-duty, shielded options engineered to resist electromagnetic interference (EMI) and preserve signal integrity in harsh operating environments.
• 350 equipment fans engineered to maximize cabinet airflow, dissipate heat, eliminate thermal failures, and extend the operating life of internal components.
• 60 Ethernet switches and Power over Ethernet (PoE) injectors that reliably establish secure network communications and supply PoE to simplify wiring and reduce component counts and costs.

These connectivity and cooling products work alongside the portfolio's extensive selection of switching, signaling, and status components, which includes more than 9,700 switches and 3,000 panel indicators, light towers, and sounders. Together, these products allow engineers to streamline physical control inputs, status signaling, plant-wide data communication, and thermal protection under a single proven brand.

"Industrial control panels govern facility uptime, and every component affects safety, serviceability, and performance," said RS PRO Director Erick Moreira. "The RS PRO Total Panel Integration portfolio offers everything you need for your panel — backed by rigorous quality testing, international standards compliance, and competitive warranties. It also delivers substantial savings compared to leading brands without compromising performance. By combining industrial networking and active thermal management with our proven power distribution, circuit protection, operator control, and panel infrastructure products, we give engineers one source for parts, one system for control, and thousands of ways to save."

The RS PRO portfolio features more than 90,000 products across 1,500 technologies. All RS PRO products are meticulously designed and manufactured to meet the needs of today's industrial engineers and deliver an exceptional combination of quality, choice, and value. They're also backed by the RS PRO Seal of Approval, which is only awarded after a rigorous testing, inspection, and auditing process based on demanding international standards. Many can be combined into integrated solutions to further simplify customers' sourcing and purchasing processes, and most are covered by a competitive three-year warranty. This unique value proposition has earned RS PRO more than half a million industrial customers and counting, as well as an astonishingly low return rate of less than 0.05%.

To learn more about the RS PRO Total Panel Integration portfolio, visit the embedded links. To start or build on your Total Panel Integration journey, contact your local RS representative at 1.866.433.5722 or reach out to our technical support team.

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About RS
RS is a high-service global product and service solutions provider for industrial customers, enabling them to operate efficiently and sustainably. We operate in 33 markets, stock over 875,000 industrial and specialist products, and list an additional five million relevant for our industrial customers, sourced from over 2,500 suppliers. This extensive range supports our customers across the industrial lifecycle of designing, building, and maintaining equipment and operations. We enhance their experience through a tailored service model, leveraging our efficient physical, digital, and process infrastructure sustainably. We combine a technically led and digitally enabled approach with an exceptional team of experts; ultimately, it's our people that make the difference. Our purpose, making amazing happen for a better world, reflects our focus on delivering results for people, planet, and profit. 

RS Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange with stock ticker RS1, and in the year ended March 31, 2026, reported revenue of $3,871.07 million. For more information, please visit https://www.rsgroup.com/ or connect with us on LinkedIn or X (Twitter).

About RS in the Americas
In the Americas region, RS stocks more than 250,000 industrial and electronic products from more than 700 trusted suppliers. These solutions cover categories extending from automation and control equipment to interconnect, passive, active, and electromechanical components and include more than 90,000 high-quality, competitively priced RS PRO products. For more information, please visit https://us.rs-online.com or connect with us via social media on LinkedIn, Facebook, and YouTube.

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