Triggers a machine stop and prevents the machine from restarting through combined detection of access and presence

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Type 4 Safety Light Curtains - as flexible as your production has to be

SOLID-4E Type 4 Safety Light Curtains ? as flexible as your production has to be

SOLID-4E with integrated start/restart interlock for access guarding on transport conveyors

Triggers a machine stop and prevents the machine from restarting through combined detection of access and presence
		Suitable when a person must be detected when entering the danger zone and at the same time continuously monitored inside the danger zone.

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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