We offer a selection of technical articles dealing with the safety of machines and plants - both in general and on particular aspects of product families for machine safety. Some of the contributions are from Schmersal employees, others are written by independent specialists, e.g. from industrial assessment organisations. The applicable PDF file can be stored on your computer by means of the download function.
Schmersal presented two new series of safety sensors. One series is intended for hygienic applications in the food-processing industry; the other one uses a new operating principle. more
In this article we would like to take the opportunity to investigate a few aspects that must be heeded in connection with this and we would like to illustrate the possibilities that today’s safety components offer for minimising risks of this nature. more
We informed you about the draft of a planned change to EN 1088:1996 in the 24/02/07 edition of the MRL (Machinery Directive – MD) News dated 14.02.2007. This information concerned the amendment AMD 1 on the subject "The use of design to minimise opportunities for circumvention" that has been passed some time ago and has also in the meantime been incorporated into the current version of the standard. more
In 2005, the BGIA (today IFA) conducted a representative survey, which revealed that the safety equipment on more than one third of machinery and plants is permanently or temporarily tampered. Although the necessary conclusions have been drawn from this survey, it can be assumed that tampering still exists today. This article demonstrates that tampering however can be prevented. more