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Safety in system: Protection for man and machine!

Under this motto, the Schmersal Group offers its customers the largest range of safety switching appliances and systems worldwide for the protection of human life and machines.

Innovations

The safety sensors with non-contact operating principle also are available in versions with coded magnets, in which the sensor for instance does not react onto conventional magnets. And for the CSS technology developed from Schmersal, a version is now available, in which the sensor and the target have a paired coding.  more The MZM 100 is a solenoid interlock with non-contact operating principle, in which the locking force of 500 N is electromagnetically generated. The absence of a mechanical locking offers for instance the advantage that the magnetic interlock can be smoothly integrated in the surrounding construction and that no annoying rattling is produced on vibrating machines. For the non safety-related latching, which is required to keep the door closed, this electromagnet is used as well.  more The Schmersal Group has developed a new solution for the protection of large safety guards. This solution is based upon the modular system of the AZM 200 solenoid interlock, which uses an innovative, Schmersal-patented operating principle for the non-contact detection of the interlock status and the safety guard position.  more

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Safety standards

With the standards EN ISO 13 849-1:2006 and EN IEC 62 061:2005 coming into force the subject of designing safety-related parts of control systems takes on a new shape, in which a SRP/CS in future is composed of a combination of deterministic(1) and probabilistic(2) approaches. Added to this are a few equally important new requirements under the keyword “Systematic Faults” and “Software”. This paper is intended to provide you with background information. on the subject of the “New SRP/CS standardisation” which will be useful for your everyday work.  more

Press

The new online catalogue from the Schmersal Group is released and offers mechanical engineers an abundance of data, documents and information. The comprehensive product programme of switchgear for automation and safety technology from the Schmersal Group is presented in a wellstructured manner at www.schmersal.net.  more

Technical articles

Ergonomics on meat-processing machinery The control units of the machinery from Seydelmann are designed from scratch according to the principles of hygiene-compliant design and offer a highly ergonomic operation as well. In this way, the man-machine interface also meets the highest requirements.  more