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With electrical safety a critical issue, achieving that goal through safety systems rather than electrical enclosures is gaining more attention.
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Source: Plant Engineering
Companies with vigorous safety cultures are better positioned to avoid accidents and are more prepared when incidents occur. But what are the safety best practices you should be implementing? And at what cost? Presenter: Luis Duran, ABB
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This Power Point defines the three basic principles of hazardous location protection; lists the advantages and disadvantages of using each protection principle and describes hazardous location protection methods.
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Source: Pepperl+Fuchs USA
System integration: Incorporating safety into a machine or a process at the design stage is more cost-effective than doing so later. Here’s a look at how several integrators and manufacturers approach upfront safety integration and the resulting benefits. This is a Control Engineering August feature article.
Source: Control Engineering
This webcast examines how users can assess whether an integrated safety and process control systems still provides adequate protection.
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Source: Control
A practical look at the convergence of safety-related devices and networks with their machine control counterparts.
Source: Control Design
Networked safety is increasing, where programmable controllers replace relays, doing for functional safety what the PLC did for machine control. Most machine owners no longer view safety as a burden but as an opportunity to enhance machine uptime and increase profitability. Here’s an example of how networked safety might work for you. (See four diagrams and three steps explaining how to network machine safety.)
The need for machine safety has become one of the most important concerns for manufacturers today. Protecting employees from injury can not only decrease financial risk for your company in terms of government fines, insurance costs, and potential litigation; it can have a positive impact on employee morale and strengthen your corporate image. Presenter: Lloyd Sinnott, Jokab Safety, Members of the ABB Group.
A how-to prescription with help from harmonizing standards and new technical tools.
Machine safety is evolving from an obstacle to an opportunity, yet many industry professionals continue to see machine safety as a costly add-on to production.
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