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Even the simplest process should be in compliance with national and international standards, and now it is affordable to get reliability and high performance for maximum machine safety. These certified machine safety components meet equipment and personnel protection needs, including safety switches, safety light curtains, safety mats and edges, and safety relays.
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A Superb Line of Machine Safety Devices ... Don't let price stand in the way of making a machine or process as safe as possible. You need to be in compliance with national and international standards, but don't overpay to get reliability and high performance for maximum machine safety. AutomationDirect now offers a superb line of machine safety devices with prices that let you do even more to protect what's important. Choose from our certified offering of brand name machine safety components to meet your protection needs, including safety switches, safety light curtains and safety relays.
- A safety switch is typically an electromechanical switch used to detect unsafe conditions and isolate power from the hazard.
- A light curtain uses a row or grid of light beams to detect intrusion and halt or prevent potentially hazardous operations.
- Safety relays are coils and contacts that are designed to be positively driven and assure a reliable opening and closing for safety applications.
Safety Components Overview
Safety Switches
Interlock safety switches are developed and manufactured according to IEC and EN European standards for Type 4 machine safety/ OSHA machine guarding. IDEM is one of the most respected in safety devices.
- Stand-alone non-contact coded magnetic
- Non-contact RFID coded
- Non-contact coded magnetic
- Non-contact magnetic
- Solenoid locking RFID tongue interlock safety switches
- Non-contact magnetic locking RFID
- Solenoid locking, tongue interlock
- Tongue Interlock
- Hinge Interlocks
Safety Limit Switches
Safety limit switches are designed to be mounted for position sensing applications, such as guard doors, conveyors, machine beds, elevators, etc. They are available with a range of actuator heads and either slow or snap action contacts.
- Cost-effective plastic models; heavy-duty die-cast and stainless steel models from IDEM are ideal for industrial environments
- IDEM HLM Series - Die Cast
- IDEM HLM-SS Series - Stainless Steel
- IDEM LSPS Series - Plastic
- Comepi AP2 Series - Plastic
- IDEM LSMM Series - Die Cast
- IDEM LSPM Series - Plastic
Safety Light Curtains
AutomationDirect offers safety light curtains for finger protection, hand protection and body protection (access control). These safety curtains are used for human protection and product/machine safety where risks cannot be eliminated by machine design and the process might require open and frequent access.
Datalogic Light Curtains
Basic and Advanced configurations
Finger protection (14mm resolution) and hand protection (30mm resolution)
Datalogic light curtains start at
$530.00
(SG4-14-015-OO-E)
(price includes both sender and receiver)
Contrinex Light Curtains
Contrinex safety light curtains for finger protection, hand protection and body protection (access control).
Contrinex light curtains start at
$318.00
(YBB-30S4-0250-G012)
ReeR Light Curtains
ReeR safety light curtains for body protection (access control).
Non-muting and muting models available
Muting models available as configurable and non-configurable units
$738.00
(S-3B)
Safety Laser Scanners
Datalogic area scanners are an intelligent and cost-efficient way of protecting a zone or area by using lasers in a 275-degree viewing window.
- Operating ranges of 3 and 5.5 meters available
- A great choice for fixed installations as well as mobile applications such as AGVs
- Configurable I/O, dust filtering, warning areas and warning signals all completed through the unit's GUI
Safety Controllers
The Reer MOSAIC (MOdular SAfety Integrated Controller) system is modular, expandable and configurable for managing all safety functions of a single machine or an entire plant that offers cost reductions with minimal wiring. Master modules can be used stand-alone or with additional expansion modules.
- MOSAIC reduces number of devices and wiring used and overall size of the project
- Speeds up control panel construction
- Allows tamper-proof system configurations
- All logic is configured through a graphic interface
- Lowers the number of electromechanical components for a better performance level and a higher safety level
Safety Relay Modules
Safety relays are coils and contacts that are designed to be positively driven and assure a reliable opening and closing for machine safety applications. IDEM and Dold safety relay modules are developed and manufactured according to IEC and EN European standards and are RoHS, CE and UL Listed. These safety relay modules consist of safety relays that are controlled by built-in monitoring functions.
Safety Isolators
STAHL isolating barriers provide intrinsic safety and galvanic separation between the control system and the field device.
- Digital and analog modules in single and dual-channel versions are rated for SIL applications
- Temperature modules also available
- The pac-Bus connection system saves time and wiring by allowing multiple modules to share a common power source
Safety Mats
Newest Additions!
- Additional sizes of the standard black straight and tapered edge mats
- New mats in safety yellow
Safety mats are used to protect people and machinery from harm. Mats detect the presence of personnel on horizontal surfaces (usually the floor). Mats are wired to specialized safety relays for fail-safe triggering of the intended safety function.
Types available include:
- Tapered edge
- Straight edge
- Diamond plate
Safety Edges & Bumpers
Newest Additions!
- Additional 25 x 30mm profile edges with a sealing lip and a new 30 x 70mm profile option
- New lengths of 60 x 100mm bumpers and a new 100 x 200mm profile option
Safety edges and bumpers are pressure-sensitive devices used to safeguard equipment from damage and prevent injury to personnel.
Edges can be used on any surface to ensure safety at potential crushing or shearing points; commonly used on the edges of automatic gates and doors.
Bumpers are used in applications involving vehicles or other moving equipment. Both edges and bumpers are wired to specialized safety relays for fail-safe triggering of the intended safety function.
Trapped Key Safety Interlock Switches
Dold Trapped Key System Gate Sets provide a full trapped key safety system, in one to five gate sets. They are available in either standard (SX) or solenoid-locking (ZRH) versions. All keys and their corresponding receivers and modules are identical within a set, but unique to any other set. Also available are tongue key actuators (purchased separately from the gate sets), and optional items such as door actuators, captive safety key sets, key modules for key exchange box setup, and mounting plates.
- Interlock safety switch body, coded trap key modules, coded keys, and tongue (key) gate actuator modules are all 316L stainless steel
- Easy installation through comprehensive accessories
- Mechanical safeguarding
- One- to five-gate sets available
- Solenoid and standard versions available
Two-Hand Controls
Schmersal two-hand control systems are used with a control monitoring relay, and require an operator to use both hands at the same time when initiating a hazardous operation.
- Aluminum and plastic panel enclosures
- Available with or without pushbuttons
Hazardous Area Devices
Hazardous location safety devices are designed to be used in a hazardous location. They operate just like traditional safety devices but are designed to be able to be used in hazardous areas. Hazardous area safety devices available include:
- Cable-pull switches
- Safety limit switches
- Tongue interlock safety switches
Cable-Pull Safety Switches
Safety switch, cable-pull interlock operated
Cable-pull (grab-wire) safety rope switches are designed to be mounted on machines and sections of conveyors which cannot be protected by guards.
- Seven max protection length classes: 15m, 25m, 50m, 80m, 100m, 125m, 250m
- Housing materials: fiberglass-reinforced plastic, die-cast aluminum and stainless steel options
- IEC IP67 environmental rating (IEC IP69K washdown with stainless body)
- Rope Pull kits sold separately and recommended for increased reliability
- Agency Approvals: cULus, CE, RoHS
Warning: Machine safety products sold by AutomationDirect are safety components only
The purchaser/installer is solely responsible for the application of these components and ensuring all necessary steps have been taken to assure each application and use meets all performance and applicable safety requirements and/or local, national and/or international safety codes as required by the application. AutomationDirect cannot certify that our products used solely or in conjunction with other AutomationDirect or other vendors products will assure safety for any application.
Any person using or applying any products sold by AutomationDirect is responsible for learning the safety requirements for their individual application and applying them, and therefore assumes all risks, and accepts full and complete responsibility for the selection and suitability of the product for their respective application.
AutomationDirect does not provide design or consulting services, and cannot advise whether any specific application or use of our products would ensure compliance with the safety requirements for any application.
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