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SOLID-2
Type 2 Safety Light Curtains with integrated cyclical testing

Solid-2 - Type 2 Safety Light Curtains with integrated cyclical testing - SOLID-2E with integrated restart interlock on a pad printing machine

SOLID-2E with integrated restart interlock on a pad printing machine

Access guarding:
Triggers a machine stop by detecting the person when accessing the danger zone

Suitable for the perimeter guarding of danger zones. Always used in combination with a restart interlock function.

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last Update: 2011-06-14

Introduction
1.1 European Directives
1.2 EU machinery directive 2006/42/EC
1.3 Use of work equipment directive 89/655/EEC
1.4 Correlation between directives and harmonized European standards
1.5 Formulation process of a harmonized standard
1.6 Hierarchy of European standards for machine safety
1.7 EN and ISO/IEC standards in the machine safety area
1.8 Safety of machinery, risk analysis and risk assessment
1.9 Safety-related parts of control systems
1.10 EN ISO 13849-1, Part 1: Basic principles
1.11 IEC/EN 62061: Functional safety, control systems

Introduction
2.1 OSHA Regulations
2.2 US Standards ANSI, NFPA, UL
2.3 Strategy for Risk Reduction
2.4 Control Reliability

3. Selecting protective devices
3.1 Guarding with optoelectronic protective devices
3.2 Selecting the required safety type
3.3 Characteristic parameters and risk parameters
3.4 Safety distance calculation
3.5 Safety distance calculation, right-angle approach
3.6 Safety distance calculation, parallel approach
3.7 Safety distance calculation, access guarding
3.8 US specifications for safety distance calculation
3.9 Guarding
3.10 Fixed guards
3.11 Moveable guards

Calculation wizards

Point of operation guarding
Point of operation guarding with control function
Access guarding
Interior area guarding
Combined detection of access and presence
Application example for the laser scanner

Guard:
low risk
high risk
Safety Light Curtains:
Right-angle approach (14 to 40 mm)
with additional control function (14 to 30 mm)
Right-angle approach (40 to 70 mm)
Parallel approach
Approach at certain angle α
Multiple Light Beam Safety Device:
Right-angle approach
Laser scanner:
Stationary area monitoring