Sensors & transducers


SHINING A LIGHT ON


SAFETY M 34


achines take on the majority of the work in various production processes. Nonetheless, trained operating personnel are required to ensure quality at manual workstations and test benches, for


instance, at presses cutting, bending, and punching machines. Workstations such as these often pose a risk, which can, following a moment of carelessness, result in cuts, crushing, fractures, or worse - even with experienced users. To prevent this from happening in the first place, it is essential that fingers, hands, and other limbs entering hazardous areas be reliably detected. With the range of safety light curtains from the Datalogic SG4 BASE series, automation24.co.uk offers the ideal solution. “Safety light curtains are the most commonly used safeguards when it comes to the monitoring of access openings. Therefore, we have expanded our online shop to include the SG4 Base series, in two resolutions with a protection field height of up to 1,050 mm, soon to be followed by the SG4 Body series. With these product lines, the vast majority of standard applications can be covered, and the safe disabling of hazardous machine movements can be automated,” reports Thorsten Schulze, who, as managing director, is responsible for product range management in particular.


DETECTION USING OPTICAL SENSORS The safety light curtains consist of a transmitter and a receiver unit and are similar in their operating principle to through beam light barriers, which are used for


February 2023 Instrumentation Monthly


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