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Safety Components

Safety-circuit upgrades present design challenges

More open and flexible safety components can make for easier integration
Functional Safety

Safety vs. security: when conflict occurs

What should you do when safety and security issues arise in control systems?
CNC

CNC machines adopt artificial intelligence and AMRs

ANCA’s Samuel Kirkpatrick discusses technology trends affecting machine builders
Safety Components

E-stop devices can take many forms

Know your standards, when it comes to emergency stops, and find the right button for the application
Safety Components

What are the different acceptable types of e-stop devices?

Guidelines inform requirements for design, and the application-specific environment plays a role
Functional Safety

How servo drives simplify functional safety

IEC 61508 standard has simplified life for machine builders and end users, resulting in safer, smarter, smaller, simpler and better-performing machines
Safety Components

The fine art of the emergency stop

Why the e-stop button needs to be reliable and swift
Safety Controllers

What’s old and what’s new with machine safety?

Safety controllers help to slay the paper dragon of relay logic
Source: Pepperl+Fuchs
Intrinsic Safety

How intrinsic safety aims to protect low-energy systems or signals from sensors, actuators and associated control signals for use in hazardous locations

Design equipment using entity parameters to guide combinations of intrinsically safe apparatus and associated apparatus to form intrinsically safe circuits
Functional Safety

Direct Safety Dagger X-Series

Direct Safety Dagger X-Series glove line provides cut- and impact-resistance for applications. This line of gloves includes options that are designed with thermoplastic rubber...
Safety Controllers

B&R CP150 compact controller

The CP150 compact controller is designed to save time and increase productivity in everyday work. Operators can eliminate the wait and also decrease emissions with the CP150, ...
Emergency Stop
Safety Components

What is an emergency stop?

E-stop features, locations and best practices in industrial safety
The automated order-fulfillment demonstration highlights collaborative robots (cobots) using sensors to scan QR codes for correct order picking, transferring and shelving of consumer items varying in sizes and shapes. The system is an example of cobots, autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and vision sensors working together in a highly flexible autonomous solution that can be scaled up or down.
Robotics

Safety-rated software helps to shrink the footprint of robotic work cells

FANUC America’s David Bruce discusses robot integration and future trends in technology