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    Presence-sensing tech for safer automation

    April 14, 2025
    How to choose the right sensing technology to increase operational efficiency and functional safety for industrial machinery

    Manufacturing is wrought with safety devices. As we progress further along with cobots and mixing humans and automation together, presence sensing becomes more important, not only for operations, but for functional safety.

    In this episode of Control Intelligence, written by contributing editor Tobey Strauch, editor in chief Mike Bacidore discusses machine safety, specifically presence-sensing technologies.

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    Control Intelligence is a Control Design podcast that goes deep inside the automation and technology that machine builders, system integrators and end users rely on to keep production humming efficiently. New episodes come out every Monday, and download all episodes by Apple Podcasts or Podbean.

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