Safety & Environmental Equipment

SICK announced the launch of the Flexi Loop safety controller node.

As the demand for functionally safe equipment products grows, so does HEIDENHAIN's component product offerings. Now new to the market are HEIDENHAIN's ROx 400 absolute rotary encoders, available in a functionally safe design including a mechanical fault exclusion for the shaft.

HEIDENHAIN Corp. is making available a new version of the RCN Series of absolute angle encoders, now with "Functional Safety," offering numerous advantages to today's machine tools.

Process dust and powders are controlled by the high volume air cleaning offered by large-capacity dust collectors from Micro Air Clean Air Systems.

Safety-related position encoders have been available from HEIDENHAIN for several years. However, those encoders have been rated to SIL 2, PL d, Category 3. While this meets the requirements of most applications, sometimes there is a need for SIL 3, PL e, Category 4-rated equipment.

ABB JOKAB SAFETY has introduced Focus II Light Curtains and Light Grids, an updated version of the Focus product line designed to offer the complete range of features in one low cost package.

A new "Clean Sweep" pneumatic vacuum accessory from Camfil Air Pollution Control (APC) provides an economical clean-up solution by adding a high-vacuum wand to a low-vacuum dust collector such as the Farr Gold Series cartridge collector.

Danray Products LLC offers free-standingshields that can be used in many applications for safeguarding, as well as for housekeeping.

Tapeswitch Corp. offers a compact, lightweight, easy to program safety laser scanner for collision prevention, presence detection, and perimeter protection.

Tapeswitch Corp. offer several lines of noncontact safety switches and system solutions for machine guarding in global industrial and commercial markets.

Key interlocks from Tapeswitch Corp. are a machine guarding solution for the control of hazardous energy, eliminating the need for a procedural lockout tag out system and are approved for such use in the US under the ANSI standard Z244.1 — Control of Hazardous Energy (Lockout/Tagout and Alternative Methods).

Danray Products LLC has just introduced its point-of-operation-opening safety scale that can be used to quickly check the point-of-operation opening for no safeguard required in accordance with OSHA 29 CFR 1910.217(c)(1)(ii) as well as applicable ANSI (American National Standards Institute) and CSA (Canadian Standards Association) machine safety standards.