Involving machine safety at an early stage of the machine conception in the era of Industry 4.0 and increased automation helps not only in achieving productivity goals associated with these technologies, but is also economical, opines Sagar Bhosale, Managing Director, Schmersal India. In an interview, he talks about The Schmersal Group’s scale and presence, its manufacturing facilities in India and how it is using India as a R&D hub for meeting local, as well as global requirements. Excerpts:
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Source: ENGINEERING REVIEW, India, Divya Media Publications Pvt.Ltd., SEPTEMBER 2019

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The Schmersal Group has presented a newly developed fieldbox at SPS IPC Drives for the first time. This allows up to eight safety switchgear devices of different designs to be simply connected to various safety controllers using “Plug&Play”. The machine manufacturer benefits from the reduced installation times, while the operator can enjoy increased flexibility and transparency.

Author: Udo Weber, Safety Technology Product Manager, Schmersal Group

Source: SPS Magazin, 11/2018, TeDo Verlag

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For the Irish CRH Group, the second-largest supplier of construction materials worldwide, occupational safety is a “strategic priority.” It is for that reason that the Group continuously invests in updating its safety systems. The subsidiary CRH Structural Concrete Belgium decided to commission for its eleven locations integrated safety solutions from a single supplier: the Schmersal Group.

Source: BFT INTERNATIONAL 02·2019 (Website: www.bft-international.com

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Occupational safety is a strategic priority for CRH. As part of continual investment in its safety systems, CRH Structural Concrete Belgium (CRH Belgium) opted to equip its 11 locations with safety solutions from the Schmersal Group.

Source: Global Cement Magazine, January 2019

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Machines from Eckel & Sohn are pioneers when it comes to sorting, supplying, screwing and assembling closures. To safeguard its plants, the company has come to rely on state-of-the-art bolt interlocks that fit to the safety doors to reliably monitor their positions.

Source: Lebensmitteltechnik, 3/2018

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Predictive maintenance is a key component of industry 4.0, whose principal advantage can be summarised in two words: economic efficiency. To optimise machine capacity within the sense of future anticipated maintenance, a comprehensive range of data needs to be collected, beginning at the very lowest machine level. Cloud solutions support the user with the analysis and utilisation of the data.

Source: messtec drives Automation, 4/2018, WILEY-VCH Verlag publishing house

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Comprehensive information about the status of a machine or plant: This brief formula turns one of the key demands of operators into a reality, a demand that also applies to safety-related components. With the Smart Safety Solution, this demand also becomes a reality. The solution gathers diagnostics data and transfers it via gateway for display and evaluation in the cloud.

Source: KE NEXT, 5/2018, verlag moderne industrie, publishing house

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Harro Höfliger is highly specialised when it comes to web processing, and the development and launch of the company’s news PMK series has been particularly significant. One of the most striking features of the new machines are the large transparent safety doors. To monitor the position of the doors, Harro Höfliger uses electromagnetic safety interlocks with integrated AS-I Safety interface from Schmersal, as on its existing MKC series cartoning machines.

Source: SPS Magazin, 4/2018, TeDO publishing house

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