Safety

Six Tips for Complying with Food Safety Requirements

Kim Overstreet — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 18:39:08 +0000

Automation can improve compliance with the Food Safety Modernization Act. These tips can help you improve execution and operational practices:

Automation can improve compliance with the Food Safety Modernization Act.

Feature Article

Hammerhead Industries: Safety Gear for Your Safety Gear

Renee Robbins Bassett — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 18:02:50 +0000

A new product from Ventura, Calif.-based Hammerhead Industries offers safety gear for your safety gear in the form of a retractable hardhat lanyard.

In the unfortunate event of a fall, a fall-arrest harness will protect the worker, but as his hardhat continues the descent, a fall-arrest harness won’t protect the work site or others on the ground.

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Free Machine Safety Software

Dave Greenfield — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 15:26:35 +0000

As manufacturing became a global game for manufacturers of all sizes—whether they be a large, direct player or smaller concern playing a supply chain role—the regulated safety maze that manufacture

The Safety Automation Builder tool from Rockwell Automation is designed to help guide manufacturers through the safety system design process.

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Moore Industries: SIL 2-Rated Safety Relay Module

Peter Cleaveland — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 06:01:00 +0000

The relay repeater module accepts single contact closure inputs from logic solver trip outputs including the company's STA Safety Trip Alarm and the SPA2 Programmable Limit Alarm Trip.

The SRM Safety Relay Module has been certified by exida for single use in Safety Instrumented Systems up to SIL 2.

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Statue of Liberty Offers Lessons in Machine Retrofits

Dave Greenfield — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:25:51 +0000

Few national icons are as recognized and revered worldwide as the Statue of Liberty.

A $27 million renovation to the Statue of Liberty includes a new emergency elevator designed using Siemens’ TIA portal. The safety retrofit process used for this new elevator design holds numerous lessons for manufacturers looking to upgrade their own machine safety systems.

Case Application

How Safety Technology Improvements Increase Productivity

George Shurtleff — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 17:28:43 +0000

Things have been moving quickly in the realm of packaging industry safety. Take standards for instance.

Safety on the plant floor is its own justification. Increasingly, however, as automation technologies converge, new approaches to packaging machine safety are also helping facilitate the creation of more efficient—and more profitable—production systems.

Feature Article

Breaking Barriers by Integrating Safety and Process Control

George Shurtleff — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 05:00:00 +0000

Jens Wedege Petersen has little room for error in his work at DONG Energy’s Nybro Gas Treatment Plant on the western coast of Jutland.

The strict segregation of safety systems and process control is just plain wrong these days. Automation suppliers have developed strategies for integrating what until now have had to be totally separate worlds.

Case Application

Four Siemens Customers Awarded for ‘Delivering Success’

Renee Robbins Bassett — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 14:03:27 +0000

Safety systems, wireless communications, motion control and more were technologies at the heart of superior automation solutions called out by global industrial automation giant Siemens as it wrapp

See why ConocoPhillips Alaska, Fori Automation, GOSS International and GT Advanced Technologies got the nod over hundreds of others.

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GE Intelligent Platforms: Distributed Safety System with High Availability

Peter Cleaveland — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 22:21:19 +0000

By combining secure network connectivity, certified safety function blocks, and an easy to use graphical programming environment, users can efficiently integrate standards-compliant safety capabili

The PACSystems VersaSafe machine safety solution has SIL3 safety capabilities.

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Honeywell Partnership Boosts Safety Offerings

George Shurtleff — Thu, 03 May 2012 19:17:15 +0000

The new partnership will see the incorporation of Magnetrol’s spillage prevention and tank overfill protection products into Honeywell Enraf Safety Solutions’ Alarm Scout service group.

Honeywell Process Systems (www.honeywellprocess.com) has signed an agreement with Magnetrol International Inc., a supplier of level and flow measurement equipment, to enhance its existing terminal market product portfolio with Magnetrol’s expertise in safety and compliance.

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Tapeswitch Corporation: Safety Interface Controller

George Shurtleff — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 13:07:44 +0000

Unit includes resistor monitoring, IP20 protection rating, CAT 3 PLd SIL2 performance level, EN 13849, three output contacts, force guided relays and two normally open (safety) 1x normally closed (

The PSSR-2 safety interface controller offers integrity monitoring of any presence sensing safety switch, mat, edge and bumper product with an end of the line resistor at a CAT3 PLd SIL2.

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Automation Suppliers Announcements At ARC Forum

Gary Mintchell — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:44:31 +0000

The annual Manufacturing Forum sponsored by the ARC Advisory Group, perhaps the industry’s largest gathering of automation suppliers, was held from Feb. 6-9 in Orlando. Where ever more than 600 industry people are gathered, rumors abound. I spent much time finding facts among the rumors and learning much about the state of the industry.

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Emerson Users Exchange Turns On the CHARMs

George Shurtleff — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:51:50 +0000

The Emerson Global Users Exchange event descended on Nashville’s Gaylord Opryland Hotel and Convention Center the last week in October and brought record numbers with it, with attendee totals settling in at just under 2,900.

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ABB Opens New Solar Inverter Production Center

admin8675309 — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:54:31 +0000

Center will feature a 400 megawatt per year capacity as well as an engineering center to support inverter production and nearby motors and drives factories.

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Security: Belden Acquires Canadian-Based Byres Security

admin8675309 — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 05:00:00 +0000

According to Joann and Eric Byres, the company will continue to operate
independently as a business unit under Belden. The Tofino Security brand

Belden Inc. has acquired Byres Security Inc. today. Belden is one of several companies that has been filling out its portfolio by making smaller, strategic acquisitions.

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Powering the World Trade Center Site

admin8675309 — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 19:12:12 +0000

The new World Trade Center site is one of the most complex projects ever undertaken and involves the resurrection of America’s tallest building, the creation of a Memorial Museum featuring the two

Siemens Industry Inc. is providing more than $12 million in building technology, power distribution and automation solutions to the rebuilt World Trade Center site and memorial museum.

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Programmable Safety Controllers