SAFE MOTION CONTROL: SAFE PROCESSES WITHOUT INTERRUPTIONS

Nowadays, machine and plant operators are faced with a challenging task: creating flexible production workflows with a high Level of automation while at the same time ensuring that people, machines, and plants stay protected. As one of the technology and market leaders in industrial safety technology, SICK is a one-stop shop providing a comprehensive range of safety solutions. Its safe motion monitoring system, Safe Motion Control, includes innovative safety concepts that have been developed for safe Monitoring of drives and machine motions. This makes it possible to increase the availability and efficiency of machines while offering a high degree of safety.     The way in which interactions between humans and machines are shaped is set to have a significant effect on performance and productivity in tomorrow’s industrial Environments.Innovative safety technology concepts such as Safe Motion Control make it possible to monitor the movement of a machine at any time, helping ensure that interaction between machines and their operators remains safe. By safely monitoring the machine Parameters of speed, travel, and acceleration, it is possible to draw an exact distinction between the machine movements which are dangerous and those which are safe. All the signals from the safety sensors and actuators can be combined, generating information that indicates whether a machine operator is actually in danger when he or she enters or creates an interruption in a hazardous area. This means that it may be possible for operators to intervene in the machine even while the process is running – preventing interruptions, minimizing downtimes and unintended shutdowns, cutting down cycle times, and boosting efficiency and availability in machines and plants.   Safe monitoring of automated guided vehicles – Using spaces more efficiently SICK, consisting of the DFS60S Pro safety encoder and the Drive Monitor FX3-MOC0, is the ideal solution when it … Continue reading →