ABB INTEGRATES DRIVE SAFETY FUNCTIONALITY TO SIMPLIFY MACHINE AUTOMATION
ABB’s PROFIsafe plug-in module with integrated safety functions for variable speed drives provides cost-effective safety functionality to simplify installation and commissioning
ABB is providing integrated safety
functionality for its all-compatible variable speed drives (VSDs) to simplify the engineering design process in machine manufacturing and automation. The new plug-in PROFIsafe module (FSPS-21) removes the need for external safety components and reduces the need for configuration.
Machine builders must ensure applications
can be controlled safely and stopped quickly if anything goes wrong. To meet demanding safety requirements, engineers have traditionally designed and installed safety functions using external (hardwired) devices. This usually requires additional installation
space as well as being costly and time consuming. These challenges can now be overcome by using drive-based safety solutions. The new functionality enables safe machine
control and seamless safety communications between the drive and the programmable logic controller (PLC) in a wide range of machines from conveyors to grinders. This is enabled through the PROFIsafe over the PROFINET IO communication protocol.
“With this new plug-in module it is possible
to provide control, ensure safety and enable PC tool communication to the drive through one Ethernet cable, which simplifies installation and commissioning” said Joonas Saarela, product manager for the PROFIsafe safety functions module, ABB Drives. “The module simplifies commissioning significantly because it requires no additional safety configuration in the drive and moreover reduces the need for training.”
NEW PUMP AND MIXER ORDERS FOR LANDIA AS DENMARK BEGINS TO REOPEN
With the news that Denmark is one of first European countries aiming to slowly put the Coronavirus lockdown into reverse, leading pump and mixer manufacturer Landia reports that is has won significant new orders from Asia. The first is to supply pumps for a
new biogas project in Japan, whilst the second order is to provide submersible mixers for an industrial WWTP in Malaysia. Just before this latest new business, Landia had also won an order to supply submersible chopper pumps for an expanding pig farm project in China. Thorkild Maagaard, Landia’s export
sales director commented: “As soon as we saw the urgent situation of the spread of Coronavirus, we took immediate steps to protect our workforce – in keeping with the advice from our government. This means that we have been able to keep very busy behind the scenes”. He added: “As our Prime Minister,
Mette Frederiksen has said, it is important that we don’t keep Denmark closed any longer than we need to, but likewise, we must take things very gradually. Seeing our
Landia colleagues in China recently returning to work is very heartening news, so we hope that when the time is right, we can slowly do likewise. It is such a strange time, but we are busy and ready for better days. In addition to the new business from Asia, we also have a new order from the Dominican Republic for our recirculation pumps”. Joern Kolmos, a professor in
clinical microbiology at the University of Southern Denmark echoed the words of Denmark’s Prime Minister, Mette Frederiksen, saying he believes that the country is ready for a controlled reopening.
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