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    Emergency Stop
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    What is an emergency stop?

    Anna Townshend
    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

    Mike Bacidore
    FANUC America’s David Bruce discusses robot integration and future trends in technology
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    I/O

    Open season on automation

    Rick Rice
    Supply-chain shortages have taught us to embrace interoperability
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    Functional-safety requirements dictate conveyor systems

    Pam Horbacovsky Klancewicz
    From pinch point guarding to training: key methods for ensuring conveyor safety
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    Presence Sensing

    How AMRs and AGVs collaborate with humans

    Anna Townshend
    New robotics standards and the specific application with guide design and deployment
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    Safety in engineering and operations

    Steve Ellis
    The importance of training workers for machine operation
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    EOS2 and EOS4 compact safety light curtains

    ReeR
    EOS2 and EOS4 series compact safety light curtains have a cross-section of 28 x 30 mm
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    SX5 safety laser scanner

    Digi-Key
    Banner Engineering's SX5 series of safety laser scanners has been expanded with master and remote models to provide advanced features for enhanced personnel and equipment protection...
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    How to decipher hazardous-location definitions in NEC and ATEX

    Joey Stubbs
    I’m always amazed at how many different standards exist for the same things in this world and the resulting differences between them.When traveling abroad, we Americans have to...