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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

Safety guards on conventional machinery and plants frequently have a structure consisting of commercially available modular profile systems. For some machine types however, more sophisticated doors are used, for instance when a special sound insulation or noise control must be realized. Another particularity are the laser machining plants, where penetration of a strayed laser beam through the door gap must be prevented. To this effect, the frames or the profiles of these safety guards must feature an overlapping. For these and other applications, the Schmersal Group has developed a new variant of the AZM 200 solenoid interlock.  more Flexibly securing hazardous areas with optoelectronics Compared to conventional safety doors, optoelectronic safety guards often provide for a more flexible machine operation. The operator’s flexibility is even enhanced, when safety light curtains with comfortable parameterizable muting and blanking functions are used.  more More functions for a more attractive price: the advantages of standardisation Until now, the SRB 211 series featured different safety-monitoring modules for the evaluation of the signals of conventional safety switchgear, magnetic safety switches and optoelectronic safety guards, the so-called AODP´s. The new SRB 211 series enables wiring all three types of safety switchgear to the same safety-monitoring module.  more

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Sophisticated QM System certified according to MD 2006/42/EC Annex X of the new Machinery Directive places very high demands on the quality management systems of companies that develop and manufacture machinery safety components. The requirements go far beyond the familiar DIN EN ISO 9000ff. – and anyone who meets them can develop and market directive-compliant products that are listed in Annex IV of the MD. For the Schmersal Group this particularly involves the "Logic units for safety functions" described under no. 21 and the "Protective systems for personnel detection" described under no. 19.  more

Technical articles

In 2005, the BGIA (today IFA) conducted a representative survey, which revealed that the safety equipment on more than one third of machinery and plants is permanently or temporarily tampered. Although the necessary conclusions have been drawn from this survey, it can be assumed that tampering still exists today. This article demonstrates that tampering however can be prevented.  more

Press

The requirements for explosion protection must not only be met in the chemical industry. Also many fields of the food production industry are exposed to explosion risks, considering that all organic dusts are inflammable, when mixed with air in a certain concentration. The same applies to the dusts produced by aluminium and magnesium, two light metals, which are increasingly used in the automotive industry.  more