Product Details

Gen Next Enclosures for Custom Industrial Push Button and Control Element Assembly

Variants covered: Single Enclosures · Two Way Enclosures · Three Way Enclosures · Eight Way Enclosures

Gen Next Enclosures are the modular housing platform for assembling custom-configured Gen Next push button and control element combinations into professionally enclosed, installation-ready industrial control stations. Available in four sizes — Single, Two Way, Three Way, and Eight Way — the Gen Next enclosure range provides the correct housing for any control station configuration from a single push button to an eight-element pendant or panel station, enabling machine builders, panel designers, and installation contractors to assemble the exact control combination required for each application within a consistent, high-quality, industrially rated enclosure.

The enclosure-and-element approach to push button station assembly provides a critical advantage over purchasing pre-configured stations for applications with specific or unusual control element combinations that do not correspond to any standard station configuration. By selecting the correct enclosure size and populating it with the specific Gen Next elements required — flush heads, mushroom heads, selectors, indicators, key switches, or any combination — the machine builder creates a bespoke control station that precisely matches the machine's control requirement, without the cost and lead time of custom manufacturing.

The Single Enclosure accepts one Gen Next control element and is the housing for standalone push button, selector, mushroom head, or indicator applications where a single control function requires its own dedicated, enclosed station. The Two Way and Three Way Enclosures accept two and three elements respectively, providing the housings for the most common multi-function control combinations — dual-button motor control, START/STOP with indicator, directional control stations, and emergency stop with control button combinations.

The Eight Way Enclosure is the large-format Gen Next housing for high-element-count control stations used as crane pendants, multi-function machine control panels, and complex process control stations where up to eight control elements must be grouped in a single compact station. The eight-way format supports the full pendant control vocabulary for overhead cranes, hoists, and multi-axis machinery while maintaining the compact, hand-holdable form factor that operator-carried pendant control stations require.

All Gen Next enclosures are manufactured to IP65 ingress protection, providing sealing against dust and directed water jets that makes them suitable for the full range of indoor industrial manufacturing, processing, and automation environments. Cable entry provisions accept standard industrial cable gland and conduit fitting sizes, and the enclosure mounting arrangement is compatible with bracket mounting, panel surface mounting, and pendant suspension configurations.

The consistent modular architecture of Gen Next enclosures across all sizes ensures that the same Gen Next element quality and installation experience is maintained regardless of station size — simplifying the station assembly process for machine builders who use Gen Next elements across their full product range and enabling spare parts standardisation across the complete portfolio of machines built on the Gen Next platform.

Key Features

• Four sizes: Single, Two Way, Three Way, and Eight Way for 1–8 element configurations
• Enables bespoke control station assembly with any Gen Next element combination
• Eight Way supports full crane pendant and multi-function machine control vocabulary
• IP65 sealing for dust and water jet resistance in industrial environments
• Consistent modular architecture enabling spare parts standardisation across machine ranges