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Safety and automation on a single PC-based controller
Some said it couldn't be done, but Siemens has created the first PC-based, fully integrated safety and machine controller. The technology represents a huge advance for system designers, offering the ability to put everything on one platform. How can you put the concept to work?
[06.15.2009]
Incorporating Safety into Product Design Yields Big Payoffs
Safety controllers allow you to design sophisticated safety functions into your mechanisms from the ground up. You can get the best effect if you consider how to use the functionality early in your design process.
[06.15.2009]
Setting the standard on safety-rated drives
Following all the relevant safety standards while also trying to develop a safety culture in your plant is a challenge, but safety standard drives can help.
[06.15.2009]
Safety Relay Or Safety PLC? The Obvious Answer Isn’t Always The Best Choice
As U.S. standards increase the safety options available to engineers, experience may not always prove to be the best guide when it comes to making the right safety decision.
[04.21.2009]
There Is No Safety Without (Cyber) Security
Safety instrumented systems (SIS) play an increasingly important role in mitigating the risk of incidents that lead to personnel injury, damage to equipment or the environment, or disruption of production. As a result, asset owners with safety-critical operations should be evaluating the integration of safety and process control systems as a means of reducing the cost of configuration, training, and support.
[04.21.2009]
Automated Safety Goes Modular
Beyond reducing the safety system costs associated with wiring multiple safety relays, modular safety systems combine the reliability of a PLC with the functionality of the safety relay into a single package.
[04.21.2009]
Machine Safety Blog
Tim Parmer of Siemens Energy & Automation explores machine (Discrete) safety.
[ 06.25.2009 ]
Latest Education
Profisafe and Profibus for High Availability and Safety in the Process Industries
Read how the mating of industrial networking and process safety creates solutions for "built-in" safety based on all available media, including Profibus DP and PA, Profinet, and wireless technology. Customers can take advantage of these solutions to unify their network architectures and eliminate the need for a second, parallel bus while achieving safety integrity levels up to SIL3.
LIVE - Safety Functional Examples (Part 4): Protective Door with Door Interlocking Using ASiSafe, and Light Curtain Using Safety PLC - Available 07/29/09 2:00-2:45pm ET
The Functional Examples webinar series select specific topics from Siemens library of Functional Examples and spends about 15 minutes on each topic discussing the salient concerns, specific products, the wiring approaches and logic required to accomplish the task.
ON DEMAND - Safety Functional Examples (Part 3): EStop and Protective Door Circuit Using ASiSafe, and EStop Using ET200s Safety Motor Starter - Available 06/24/09 2:00-2:45pm ET
The Functional Examples webinar series selects specific topics from Siemens library of Functional Examples and spends about 15 minutes on each topic discussing the salient concerns, specific products, the wiring approaches and logic required to accomplish the task.
Process Safety Blog
Charlie Fialkowski of Siemens Energy and Automation, discusses process safety.
Why Separate when you can integrate?
[ 06.17.2009 ]
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05.14.2009
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