Product News

Danray Products LLC offers 52" and 62" steel lathe chuck shields for lathes or similar machines.

The Programmable and Modular PCU Safety Control Unit from Tapeswitch Corp. bridges the gap in technology between traditional safety relays and PLC systems for safety device integration for machinery builders, rebuilders, and users.

Airflow Systems Inc.'s TH-280 Series of industrial air filtration systems is designed to provide high-efficiency, ambient filtration in manufacturing and processing environments. The TH-280 Series includes the TH-280V and the TH-280H.

The issue of human safety according to the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC is becoming more important as the global economy drives us toward common standards. As part of the worldwide Functional Safety initiatives for machinery, LEINE & LINDE is supporting design engineers with reliability data for their 500 and 800 series encoders, available from Heidenhain, in support of this directive.

Danray Products LLC has introduced 12", 18" and 24" steel lathe chuck shields for lathes or similar machines.

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.

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. These applications involve high risks for the operator, such as when they may interact with a robot. For these applications, HEIDENHAIN has developed the ECI 1319 and EQI 1331 inductive, safety-related rotary position encoders.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Rockford Systems Inc. offers precision-engraved acrylic copolymer guard-opening scales.

The robust mechanical structure and enhanced reliability designed into Leine & Linde's heavy duty Model 800 Series rotary encoders from Heidenhain supports their long history of successful operation in tough motion control environments, such as within the steel, paper and wind power equipment industries. Now, two new encoder models with dual outputs augment this product line for use in safety applications.

The new absolute LC 195S and LC 495S sealed linear encoders from HEIDENHAIN are now available for use on machines that need to be certified for functional safety.

SICK announced the launch of the deTec4 Core safety light curtain.

Denray Machine Inc. says its downdraft tables are ideal to help protect workers from hazardous smoke, fumes and particles generated during grinding, welding or sanding operations.