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Safety in system: Protection for man and machine!
Under this motto, the Schmersal Group offers its customers the largest range of safety switching appliances and systems worldwide for the protection of human life and machines.
Innovations
Extension of the safety controller programme
Safe speed monitoring of drives
This system enables the machine builder monitoring the speed of, for instance, spindle or axle drives in a safe manner.
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Adapter for series-wiring of safety sensors
Enhanced installation & cost reduction
Many complex machinery and plants are equipped with multiple safety guards. According to the Machinery Directive, they all need to be safe, which means that the machine builder must provide the required number of safety switchgear. The installation of the switchgear of course consumes a lot of time and money.
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Control devices and indicator lights for areas with potentially explosive atmospheres
Modular and robust design
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Saturday, 6.9.2008
NEWSLETTER
Technical articles
15.08.2008
Special operating modes for set-up mode and process observation
How can the job of the machine setter or operator be facilitated, whilst it is still guaranteed that he works safely during the set-up or after a size change on the one hand and that he has the best visibility on the process so that he can intervene in case of an emergency on the other hand? The new Machinery Directive provides – under strictly defined conditions – the possibility to use special operating modes; an opportunity, which the machinery builder should take advantage of.
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Technical articles
11.04.2008
Control devices for fish and meat processing: ergonomic and hygiene-compliant
Fish or meat? The engineers from the machinery building company Rud. Baader GmbH & Co.KG, located at Lübeck in North-Germany, know all the ins and outs of both basic foodstuffs. Baader is international market leader in the field of fish processing machinery and also a leading supplier of meat processing machines. The company has a high degree of vertical integration in order to guarantee a high quality level and also assembles components such as the control devices in the own plant. Here, the hygiene-compliant control devices and indicator lights from the N-programme from Elan are used.
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Press
18.04.2008
Pull-wire emergency stop switches – easy-to-use and robust
iF-Award awarded to innovative wire-tensioning device
The new ZQ/TQ pull-wire switches from the Schmersal Group feature many practice-oriented details. The development engineers particularly paid attention to an ergonomic operation and a long lifetime, even under rough conditions.
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