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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
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Integrated Control & Safety

Risk assessment considerations for integrated control and safety systems

Safety standards, applications and stakeholders affect ICS risk assessment, functional safety steps
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Integrated Control & Safety

ICS systems bring safety to the start of the machine design process

Demand for integrated control and safety systems is growing because they provide more safety design upfront, not as an afterthought, and a single programming environment reduces...
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Integrated Control & Safety

More open protocols and processing power advance integrated control and safety

Industry is expected to continue adopting integrated options that save time and infrastructure costs
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I/O

Open season on automation

Supply-chain shortages have taught us to embrace interoperability
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Safety Components

Functional-safety requirements dictate conveyor systems

From pinch point guarding to training: key methods for ensuring conveyor safety
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Machine Guarding

Banner SLC4 series

Banner Engineering's SLC4 Series are Type 4 safety light curtains specifically designed to safeguard smaller points of operation and access on compact machines
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Robotics

8 tips to operate AMRs safely

Here are some tips for ensuring safe speed and positioning for AMRs using integrated safety technology – many of these tips also apply to automated guided vehicles (AGVs).
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Sensors

2023 State of Technology Report: Sensors, Vision and Machine Safety

Get a feel for your equipment and its safety. Let sensing and vision systems complement your machine’s performance.
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Presence Sensing

How AMRs and AGVs collaborate with humans

New robotics standards and the specific application with guide design and deployment