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Fire Sentry is a privately-held manufacturer of fire detection and control products for a broad range of industrial markets.

The brochure provides an overview of the palletizer process, guarding challenges and hazard analysis, and illustrates how simplified safety control can improve safety and profitability. Requires registration to obtain brochure.

Per the Canadian Electrical Code (CEC), this rating is required when installing cables into tray applications.

The show will cover Permanent Electrical Safety Devices.

Automation.com, January 2012 By Gary Johnson, COOPER Crouse-Hinds UK When it comes to specifying enclosures for hazardous area electrical applications, engineers must ensure they fully understand IP protection ratings, as well as the implications of modifying an Exd or Exe enclosure prior to or after installation.

The Smoke Detection Knowledge Center features a wealth of content regarding the value of smoke detection in commercial settings.

The Milwaukee office is headed by Joel Warren. Rick Forsgren will manage the Eagan, Minnesota office.

UL-approved NEMA 23 (60 mm) step motors are available in half, single and two stack configurations, and provide holding torques from 42 to 253 oz-in.

The application, accessible through the MISUMI Web site, provides design engineers with a visual index to all of the company’s Factory Automation components.

Rockwell's free Safety Return on Investment (ROI) Tool relies on a basic calculation: benefits divided by costs equals ROI.

Orders were down 22.4% from September but up 20.3% when compared with the total of $385.21 million reported for October 2010.

Automation.com, November 2011 By Nuris Ismail, Aberdeen Group In today's economic environment, manufacturers are under immense pressure to contribute value to the organization's bottom line by cutting costs and improving productivity wherever possible. In fact, in the Aberdeen Business Review study of over 170 manufacturers revealed that their primary goals for 2011 were profitability and cost reduction.

Automation.com, November 2011 By Mikko Ristolaine, ABB Offerings from safe stopping to more elaborate monitoring functions are being introduced and are heralding new opportunities in machine safety.

Program partners get an expedited test and evaluation process that gets safety products for a given application into the design engineer’s hands for evaluation.

Automation.com, November 2011 By Eric Byres, Byres Security Inc. On one hand, industry is becoming increasingly concerned about just how vulnerable control systems have become to outside attacks. At the same time, new tools and applications that improve efficiency, but increase that exposure, are appearing daily. So must we sacrifice these gains in efficiency if we want to be secure?

ARC says governments continue to enact new regulations to protect public health and safety. This requires better product quality, risk, and compliance (QRC) management systems.

Simatic STEP 7 Safety Advanced V11 part of the TIA Portal provides users with all configuration and programming tools required for generating a fail-safe program within Siemens TIA Portal.

Nearly 30 couplers, controllers and I/O modules in the WAGO-I/O-SYSTEM now carry ATEX and IEC Ex Certifications for operating in temperatures up to +60°C.

openSAFETY has been declared an official communication standard by the DDASCA Consortium (Dependable Distributed Architecture for Safety Critical Applications).

Risk estimation looks at risk from identified hazards to be qualified and quantified to distinguish high-risk possibilities from low-risk possibilities when considering machinery safety.