Machine Safety Functions - Design and Implementation
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Machine safety functions play a central role in reducing risk, protecting operators, and ensuring that equipment operates within safe parameters. Yet many safety functions are misunderstood, improperly designed, or incorrectly validated, leading to gaps in protection and a lack of compliancy.
Join as we explore the fundamental designs for machine safety functions and how to properly implement them into industrial applications.
Learn more about key safety functions such as:
- Safety stop initiated by a safeguard
- Guard locking
- Safety light curtain muting and blanking
- Safe speed
- Safe enable
- Emergency stop
- Reset
Speaker:
Devin Murray
tec.nicum Engineering Services Manager
Schmersal
Devin is the tec.nicum Services Manager for Schmersal’s engineering services group in North America. He has written many whitepapers related to safety standards and general machine guarding, conducted risk assessments and validations, and developed and reviewed the implementation of corporate safety standards. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and an MBA from Alfred University and is a TÜV certified Functional Safety Engineer for Machinery.
