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    Safety-circuit upgrades present design challenges

    Rick Rice
    More open and flexible safety components can make for easier integration
    Safety Components

    E-stop devices can take many forms

    Anna Townshend
    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?

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

    The fine art of the emergency stop

    Jeremy Pollard
    Why the e-stop button needs to be reliable and swift
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    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

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

    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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    Safety Components

    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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    Motors

    1SA series servo motors

    Omron Industrial Automation
    The 1SA series supports safety functions and provides advanced safety control of people, machines and things
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    Safety Components

    E3 Vise Action covered compression latch

    Southco
    The E3 Vise Action compression latch with bi-stable cover is designed with a cover that pops open when the latch is not secure
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    Safety Components

    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