From manufacturer to service provider and solution provider The Schmersal Group broadens its service offer with respect to machinery safety. The new “Safety Consulting” service aims at providing the company’s customers with comprehensive consultancy regarding issues such as the implementation of directives and standards in actual constructional practice. more

Universally applicable, extremely reliable Machinery safety and explosion protection are two fields placing extremely high requirements on industrial switchgear. The new position switches of the EX-T 335 series meet these requirements and therefore are suitable for the position monitoring of safety guards in explosive atmospheres. 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

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

Smaller than a standardised switch – smooth fitting. The Z/T 196 position switch range with safety function, an innovation from the Schmersal Group, is extremely compact. Although fixing and mounting dimensions are identical, the compact switch requires less mounting space than conventional standardized switches. With a height of only 20 mm and three possible cable or connector positions, the switch will enable in many cases a reduction of the required size of the safety components themselves. more

The latest safety sensor technology as an alternative to electromechanics. The AZ 16 is to many companies the safety switch par excellence: the Schmersal Group already has produced many millions of this series and the switch is still highly popular. Schmersal now presents a new safety sensor, which will help many users make the step from electromechanical to non-contact guard door monitoring. Although the CSS 16 has the latest sensor technology inside, its basic size is exactly the same as that of the AZ 16 – with this particular difference that in the CSS devices the mechanical actuator is replaced by a compact target. more

For hard-to-access mounting situations. With the ZSM 476, the Schmersal Group presents a latching position switch with multiple contacts for use both in elevator technology and in general machinery construction. The position switch with safety function features an electrically triggered reset function. more

Standard in higher design quality instead of “do-it-yourself”. Every safety guard of a machine or plant is, besides a safety switching system, equipped with a control panel, by means of which the operator can at least activate the emergency stop, on/off and reset functions. Usually, these control panels are manufactured by the machine builder according to the “do-it-yourself” principle. Especially for small quantities or in companies with their own auxiliary equipment production department, which only manufacture small series, this is a highly uneconomical operation, which does not always produce the desired result from the technical or aesthetical point of view. more

The Schmersal Group has developed a new solution for the protection of large safety guards. This solution is based upon the modular system of the AZM 200 solenoid interlock, which uses an innovative, Schmersal-patented operating principle for the non-contact detection of the interlock status and the safety guard position. more