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April 2009 |
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Doing safety the right way lifts productivity too
PACE, March 2009
Safety measures that are worked into the very design of the manufacturing plant rather than as an after-thought actually boost productivity. The best safety systems make work easier (and lines more efficient) at every stage from project planning through to operation and maintenance.
Machinery safety and the need to save money
PACE, March 2009
It can be a false economy - or potentially dangerous - to try saving money on safety systems, yet careful design can reap rewards. Engineers should be aware of trying to save money by buying cheaper safety-related products, as it could cost them dearly in the long run.
Robot Safety in Difficult Times
Robotics On Line, February 2009
By Jeff Fryman , Robotic Industries Association
With the introduction of ANSI/RIA/ISO 10218-1, new robot features are allowed that follow the “lean” philosophy of manufacturing. Lean in terms of reduction of waste and improved efficiency, and reduced cost to produce goods. Although several new features are at play, the use of safety-rated soft axis and space limiting is the most exciting one.
Safety Adds Complexity and Function
Control Design, February 2009
By Phil Burgert
Occupational safety requirements, increased demands for flexibility, diagnostics and Ethernet-based safety are driving use of safety relays and programmable safety controllers while providing machine builders with options.
Convert to Digital Safety
Industrial Networking, February 2009
As networks move to digital technology, some of them take on safety. Users integrate control and safety where possible and keep them separate when necessary.
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| White Papers |
Applying Multicore and Virtualization to Industrial and Safety-Related Applications
By Wind River Systems
White paper shows how multicore and virtualization can help you improve device performance, reduce costs through hardware consolidation, and upgrade applications more cost effectively throughout the product lifecycle. Registation required.
ANSI-Z10 Risk Control Hierarchy Improves Safety
By Phil Allen, Grace Engineered Products
Risk Control Hierarchy (RCH) in the ANSI-Z10 standard provides electrical safety professionals a roadmap for setting safety objectives. This whitepaper details how applying the RCH to any electrical safety program will increase safety and employee productivity.
Video Monitoring Helps in Tough Economic Times
By Steve Rubin, Longwatch
Video monitoring can help companies survive through layoffs, plant closings, and idling of plants. The white paper explains that when plants have layoffs or shut down, much work remains to be done, often by a severely reduced workforce. Video can help pick up the workload.
Preventing electrical shock with proper grounding techniques
By Jim Gregorec, Ideal Industries
In an electrical system, the grounding system is the primary protection against electrical shock hazards. Using proper grounding techniques, testing and maintaining a good electrical ground and installing protection devices are the best ways to protect people and equipment from electrical shock.
Best Practices for Terminating Copper Cabling
By Dan Munch and Sheri LindhartPayerle, Ideal Industries
Although the process of terminating twisted-pair copper cabling may seem to be relatively simple on the surface, the issues involved with properly creating robust connections for today’s high performance LANs can be particularly challenging.
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| Resources & Literature |
Gotcha Stick - Safe Distance Scale for Machine Guarding
Is that Hard-Guard Adequately Protecting your Machine Operators? Based on revised anthropometric data, the "Gotcha Stick" from STI is a three-segment safe distance scale used to verify that openings in machine hard-guards will not allow the point-of-operation to be accessed by the operator.
Banner Engineering Complete Catalog on CD Features 3500+ Web Links to More Info
Banner Engineering's catalog CD contains all current product catalogs for more than 15,000 sensing, safety, measurement & inspection, and vision products as well as current pricing.
TUV creates web site compliance library
Website provides access to thousands of active certifications issued by TÜVRheinland. Certificates are translated in a dozen languages.
Graphic Products publishes guide to top 10 OSHA violations in 2008
Guide provides specific code references associated with each violation and reinforces the need to create proper workplace safety labels to prevent injuries, fatalities, and fines.
ISA publishes IEC 61499 and Safety Resources books
ISA published “Real-Time Execution for IEC 61499,” and “Safety Profiles for Real-Time Ethernet-Based Industrial Automation Networks.”
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| Application Stories |
Caverns deep in Electric Mountain protected
HazardEx, January 2009
Dinorwig hydro electric power station, hidden deep inside Elidir mountain in Wales, installed Kentec Syncro analogue addressable control panels for the upgrading of its fire detection system.
Out of sight, not out of reach
By Softing
Clariant, a plastics manufacturer in Gersthofen, Germany, used a Profibus Ethernet gateway and FDT to connect to HART devices in hazardous areas and won the HART plant of the year award.
Siemens automates Renault diesel engine line
Automation includes Siemens Sinumerik 840D powerline for the CNC control, 160 NC machines, 18 robots, Profibus, PLCs, HMIs and industrial PCs.
World’s fourth longest rail tunnel gets gas protection
HazardEX, December 2008
Protection from gas hazards in the 28km long Guadarrama Tunnel in Spain is being provided by monitoring systems from Crowcon Detection Instruments. The Crowcon systems detect potentially flammable and toxic gases before they reach hazardous levels.
ABB revamps excavator at LaFarge Cement in Germany
Revamp of drive and safety systems cut the machine's energy consumption by 15 percent and extended the service life by 15 years.
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| Featured Training |
Machine Safety Seminar
SICK invites you to attend a machine safety seminar, “Understanding the new global standards — what you need to know to implement machine safety.”
Safety Control & Instrumentation Systems Conference
May 19-21, 2009 Manchester, UK
Conference will examine and discuss the latest local and international practices and standards in process and machine safety. It will focus on the technology and application of safety-related control and instrumentation systems in the chemicals, energy, mining and manufacturing industries. It will also examine the complex and challenging issues of using control systems technology to maintain and improve the safety of people and plant whilst ensuring profitability.
TÜVRheinland Functional Safety Training
June 8-10, 2009 Boston, MA
The event will provide classroom instruction in the area of functional safety according to IEC 61508, IEC 61511 and other relevant international standards.
Hazardous Areas Conference
June 16-18, 2009 Calgary, Canada
The conference has been created to meet & exchange ideas concerned with working in hazardous areas, thus preventing accidents & injuries in the workplace. It will serve to highlight technologies, best practices, & accelerate improvements in standards & regulations to reduce accidents & injuries, & to reduce the economic impact of electrical accidents.
Regional Forum: Electrical Engineering
July 1-2, 2009 Tasmania, Australia
Technical papers on Electrical Safety: Safe theory & practice, earthing and bonding, standards & regulations, auditing techniques; Switchgear and Cables: Installation, commissioning, joint & terminations, arc flash hazards; and Emergency and Remote Power Supplies: Batteries, UPSes, and renewable energy.
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| Company & Organizational News |
Omron STI safety services available in Southeast Asia
Safety services include machine and process safety education, assessment and risk identification, engineering and design, as well as integration and implementation.
Honeywell earns ATEX certification for MICRO SWITCH EX Series
EX Series switch products received the International Electrotechnical Commission's Certification to Standards relating to Equipment for use in Explosive Atmospheres (IECEx).
Advantech achieves UL certification for EKI-1000
Serial Device Servers (EKI-1351, 1352, 1521, 1522, and 1524) and Modbus Gateways (EKI-1221, 1222, and 1224) have received UL Class 1, Division 2 (groups A, B, C, and D) certification for use in hazardous locations.
ARC says machinery automation market to reach $21.2 Billion
The market for AC Drives, PLCs, motion controls, CNC, and machine safeguarding was $18.0 billion in 2008 and is forecast to be over $21.2 billion in 2013.
ABB appoints Luis Duran to manage safety systems business
Most recently, Duran was Product Marketing Director for the Safety and Critical Control product line for Invensys Triconex.
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| Project News |
HIMA to provide Evonik Degussa with fieldbus safety system
HIMA will provide two HIMax CPUs, two system bus modules, two digital output and three input modules, one analog output module and one communications module for PROFIBUS-DP.
Robotics company chooses Fortress to safeguard operators
Process & Control Today, June 2008
ATM Automation has chosen Fortress Interlocks to safeguard workers at its Robotics manufacturing plant in Blaby, Leicestershire. Fortress’ eGard interlocks protect a robot cell. When an operator wants to gain access he must turn and remove the key from the unit holding the door closed.
Automate dangerous and toxic filling with vision
Process & Control Today, May 2008
Feige Filling has been supplying industrial machines used to fill different containers. This German company developed a new robotic filling technology equipped with Cognex vision that opens up completely new opportunities for filling with regard to safety, speed and cost effectiveness.
Sensors check seat belts for safety
When building a replacement rig for a seatbelt manufacturer, Mindready Solutions Solutions used a transducer from Sensor Technology and found previously undetected large torque oscillations.
GrammaTech to supply NASA with safety software test technology
NASA-funded technology will advance the state-of-the-art in static-analysis testing of high-assurance software and help increase software reliability.
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National Manufacturing Week 2009
May 12-15, 2009 Melbourne, Australia
NMW is Australia’s only fully integrated annual manufacturing exhibition. Exhibitors will be showcasing the latest products and constantly evolving technologies in the expanding manufacturing market.
Safety Control & Instrumentation Systems Conference
May 19-21, 2009 Manchester, UK
This conference will focus on the technology and application of safety-related control and instrumentation systems in the chemicals, energy, mining and manufacturing industries. It will examine the complex and challenging issues of using control systems technology to maintain and improve the safety of people and plant whilst ensuring profitability.
ISA International Instrumentation Symposium
June 1-5, 2009 League City, Texas
The 55th annual ISA IIS covers electronic instrumentation, wireless technology, Cybersecurity, aerospace systems, process measurement and control, and more.
Sensors Expo & Conference
June 8-10, 2009 Rosemont, IL
The 2009 Conference Program will offer 18 tracks with an expanded focus on data acquisition, data analysis, wireless, M-2-M and communications.
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