Pilz Automation Safety L.P.

Safety Gate System provides holding force of 7,500 N.
Architectural & Civil Engineering Products

Safety Gate System provides holding force of 7,500 N.

Suitable for small and light as well as large and heavy doors and gates, PSENmlock offers safety gate monitoring and safe guard locking for protection of personnel and processes to highest PL e in one device. Currentless guard locking system uses bistable magnet, minimizing energy consumption. With holding force of 7,500 N and integrated latching force of 30 N, safety gate system prevents guard...

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Light Grids support applications up to PL d.
Agricultural & Farming Products

Light Grids support applications up to PL d.

As type 3 light grids, PSENopt II Series offers not only hand protection, but also finger protection. Units enable applications from category performance level d (PL d), thereby closing type gap of revised version of IEC 61496-1. Available in lengths from 150–1800 mm, light grids work with continuous single beams that completely eliminate dead zones. All significant causes or system defects...

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Pilz at the Hannover Messe - Automation Your Way
Agricultural & Farming Products

Pilz at the Hannover Messe - Automation Your Way

CANTON, Michigan- – Under the motto We automate. Safely. Pilz will be presenting industry solutions and services for safety and automation at this year's Hannover Messe April 25 - 29, 2016. The automation company will also be presenting its product innovations from the fields of Sensor technology - including a world first - and Operating and monitoring . Safe human-robot collaboration (HRC)...

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Controls & Controllers

Pilz Automation System PSS 4000 Release 13 Brings Greater Value

The automation system, PSS 4000 from Pilz continues to deliver extra benefits designed to give you even greater value. The automation system, PSS 4000 from Pilz continues to deliver extra benefits designed to give you even greater value. The function non-persistent online change now means that individual changes in user programs can be transferred to the control system. Pilz has made this...

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Services

Service Solutions to Keep Packaging Employees Safe

Safe packaging machines increase the productivity of people as well as the machines themselves. Packaging companies that implement a rigorous safety policy have been proven to be more successful in the marketplace. Existing plants must be regularly checked and evaluated. The packaging industry is experiencing ever shorter innovation cycles and increasing pressure from the competition. Customers...

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Agricultural & Farming Products

Keeping Railroads Safe with Pilz

Millions of passengers and massive amounts of freight are transported on railroads daily. Whether transporting passengers or freight, trains must be in the right place at the right time. The extensive rail network must be controlled and monitored safely. Additionally, there's the safety of the train equipment to guarantee. Automation from Pilz makes an important contribution to railway safety by...

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Pilz Develops New Method to Calculate Safety in Manufacturing

Risk Assessment is fundamental to the achievement of safety through design of new machinery and for selecting safeguarding and other risk reduction measures on existing machinery. Risk estimation looks at risk from identified hazards to be qualified and quantified in order to distinguish high-risk possibilities from low-risk possibilities when considering machinery safety. Pilz Hazard Rating...

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Machinery Safety to Suit Every Packaging Machine Scenario
Electrical Equipment & Systems

Machinery Safety to Suit Every Packaging Machine Scenario

Following renewed risk assessments that led to an updated machine safety design concept for a servo-driven film wrapping machine, BVM Brunner now has the flexibility to meet a variety of customer requirements whilst also ensuring the safety of machine operators. Machinery safety specialist Pilz Automation Technology is widely acknowledged as a market leader in machinery safety, including control...

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HSE Issues New Guidance on Safety of Hand-fed Platen Presses
Machinery & Machining Tools

HSE Issues New Guidance on Safety of Hand-fed Platen Presses

HSE has now commenced on-site inspections of hand-fed platen presses in the UK and so users of this high-risk machinery need to ensure that their machines meet the required safety standards. Following extensive consultation with industry, users and suppliers, HSE has published an Information Sheet to help users manage this process. The Health & Safety Executive (HSE) is urging users of hand-fed...

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Pilz Automation Technology and SCA Display UK Co-Develop Innovative Safety Solution for Hand-Fed Platen Press
Agricultural & Farming Products

Pilz Automation Technology and SCA Display UK Co-Develop Innovative Safety Solution for Hand-Fed Platen Press

With the Health & Safety Executive about to commence on-site inspections of hand-fed platen presses, users of this high-risk machinery need to ensure that their presses meet the required safety standards. By working closely together, two companies have developed a novel, high integrity safety solution for a hand-fed platen press, which uses an array of light beam sensors and a modular safety...

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Safety Gate System provides holding force of 7,500 N.
Architectural & Civil Engineering Products

Safety Gate System provides holding force of 7,500 N.

Suitable for small and light as well as large and heavy doors and gates, PSENmlock offers safety gate monitoring and safe guard locking for protection of personnel and processes to highest PL e in one device. Currentless guard locking system uses bistable magnet, minimizing energy consumption. With holding force of 7,500 N and integrated latching force of 30 N, safety gate system prevents guard...

Read More »
Light Grids support applications up to PL d.
Agricultural & Farming Products

Light Grids support applications up to PL d.

As type 3 light grids, PSENopt II Series offers not only hand protection, but also finger protection. Units enable applications from category performance level d (PL d), thereby closing type gap of revised version of IEC 61496-1. Available in lengths from 150–1800 mm, light grids work with continuous single beams that completely eliminate dead zones. All significant causes or system defects...

Read More »
Pilz at the Hannover Messe - Automation Your Way
Agricultural & Farming Products

Pilz at the Hannover Messe - Automation Your Way

CANTON, Michigan- – Under the motto We automate. Safely. Pilz will be presenting industry solutions and services for safety and automation at this year's Hannover Messe April 25 - 29, 2016. The automation company will also be presenting its product innovations from the fields of Sensor technology - including a world first - and Operating and monitoring . Safe human-robot collaboration (HRC)...

Read More »
Controls & Controllers

Pilz Automation System PSS 4000 Release 13 Brings Greater Value

The automation system, PSS 4000 from Pilz continues to deliver extra benefits designed to give you even greater value. The automation system, PSS 4000 from Pilz continues to deliver extra benefits designed to give you even greater value. The function non-persistent online change now means that individual changes in user programs can be transferred to the control system. Pilz has made this...

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Company News

Peter Pilz Production and Logistics Center Opens

CANTON, Michigan - The automation company Pilz has opened the Peter Pilz Production and Logistics Center at its headquarters in Ostfildern, Germany. The new building covers a total area of over 44,000 sq. ft. and at $22 million, is the largest single investment in the history of this family business. As a result, not only is the company enlarging its production area by 50 percent, it is also...

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Services

Service Solutions to Keep Packaging Employees Safe

Safe packaging machines increase the productivity of people as well as the machines themselves. Packaging companies that implement a rigorous safety policy have been proven to be more successful in the marketplace. Existing plants must be regularly checked and evaluated. The packaging industry is experiencing ever shorter innovation cycles and increasing pressure from the competition. Customers...

Read More »
Agricultural & Farming Products

Keeping Railroads Safe with Pilz

Millions of passengers and massive amounts of freight are transported on railroads daily. Whether transporting passengers or freight, trains must be in the right place at the right time. The extensive rail network must be controlled and monitored safely. Additionally, there's the safety of the train equipment to guarantee. Automation from Pilz makes an important contribution to railway safety by...

Read More »

Pilz Develops New Method to Calculate Safety in Manufacturing

Risk Assessment is fundamental to the achievement of safety through design of new machinery and for selecting safeguarding and other risk reduction measures on existing machinery. Risk estimation looks at risk from identified hazards to be qualified and quantified in order to distinguish high-risk possibilities from low-risk possibilities when considering machinery safety. Pilz Hazard Rating...

Read More »
Machinery Safety to Suit Every Packaging Machine Scenario
Electrical Equipment & Systems

Machinery Safety to Suit Every Packaging Machine Scenario

Following renewed risk assessments that led to an updated machine safety design concept for a servo-driven film wrapping machine, BVM Brunner now has the flexibility to meet a variety of customer requirements whilst also ensuring the safety of machine operators. Machinery safety specialist Pilz Automation Technology is widely acknowledged as a market leader in machinery safety, including control...

Read More »
Company News

Adopt Machine Safety Standards Now, Says Pilz

As the Machinery Directive EN 13949-1 standards better reflect state of the art in Machine Safety System design, machine builders should adopt these standards sooner rather than later, says Kevin Ives, Machinery Safety Consultant at Pilz Automation Technology. The latest version of the Machinery Directive has now been with us for some time. 2006/42/EC was introduced in 2006 and published in the...

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