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What is Safe Motion?
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Increase worker protection and manufacturing productivity with safety technology
The primary goal of safe motion technology is to protect personnel against uncontrolled machine movements. Drive-based safe motion technologies fulfill this goal, while helping to make machine changes and re-starts as efficient and productive as possible.
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Safe Motion Technical Article
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Safe Motion Technologies: Competitive Advantages for Early Adopters
Introduction of drive-based Safe Motion into today’s automation market is having a greater impact on the machine safeguarding business than any other factor. The ARC Advisory Group describes how this technology is enabling manufacturers to improve worker protection without sacrificing productivity.
Read the ARC Technical Article (PDF 1.1 MB)
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Safety on board
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Key Safety Trend: Task-oriented approach to safety
Conventional safeguard systems have emphasized “absolute” operator safety, at the expense of productivity. However, robotic accident studies have concluded that many accidents do not occur under normal operating conditions, but during programming, maintenance, repair, testing, setup, or adjustment.
A more modern, effective safeguarding strategy is one that evaluates the use of equipment from a task oriented perspective: how does the operator have to interact with the machinery? This task-oriented approach lends itself to the use of an integrated system solution that relies on intelligent automation components. The risk of operator injury is reduced to a tolerable level in specific operational modes, while allowing the operator to work efficiently.
The Safe Motion animation demonstrates how this is accomplished, using Rexroth’s controller-based and drive-based Safety On Board technologies allow an operator to access a machine space without abruptly stopping the system’s motion:
Watch Safe Motion simulation
Expert Help on Machine Safety
Make safety a fundamental competitive advantage in your machine design. Our applications engineers can show you the most effective way to use Rexroth Safety On Board technology to meet the twin goals of worker safety and maximum productivity. Contact us.
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