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New Assessment Service Offers Organizations with Machine Safeguarding Needs

New Assessment Service Offers Organizations with Machine Safeguarding Needs

Available for cutting and turning machines including drill presses, vertical mills, grinders, small lathes, saws, sanders and riveters. Remote Safeguarding Assessment service designed for customers with less complex machine safeguarding requirements. Helps to understand mechanical components of machinery and hazardous mechanical motion that occurs near machines to avoid injury.

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Safety Bumper System has built-in sensing device.
Mechanical Components and Assemblies

Safety Bumper System has built-in sensing device.

Industrial grade, pressure-sensitive, 4-wire safety bumper is designed to protect someone or something from hazardous machine conditions. When person or object comes in contact with safety bumper, signal is sent to stop machine. Bumper is fabricated of yellow, heavy-duty reinforced vinyl, and has 6 ft cable and aluminum mounting channel. Applications include in automated manufacturing, packaging...

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Machine Safety Device protects small machne operators.
Fluid & Gas Flow Equipment

Machine Safety Device protects small machne operators.

Designed to protect operator's fingers from point-of-operation hazards, DAF-100 Detect-A-FingerÂ-® consists of control box, drop-probe assembly, and aluminum sensing probes and provides adjustable stroke of up to 4 in. Drop-probe assembly moves sensing probe to point-of-operation hazard prior to each machine cycle, if probe encounters operator's fingers and fails to drop to preset position,...

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Flexible-Arm Shields protect operator from chips and sparks.
Health, Medical, & Dental Supplies and Equipment

Flexible-Arm Shields protect operator from chips and sparks.

Suitable for lathes, drills, mills, grinders, and band saws, Flexible-Arm Shields have spring steel arms covered with vinyl to protect against grease and oil. Arms offer virtually unlimited adjustment possibilities and direct or magnetic mounting. Direct-mount base can be fastened right on machine, while magnetic base consists of 3 in. diameter magnet with 100 lb holding force. Transparent...

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Grinder Shields can be mounted directly or magnetically.
Health, Medical, & Dental Supplies and Equipment

Grinder Shields can be mounted directly or magnetically.

Double-wheel grinder shield provides protection for both wheels of grinder and measures 18 x 6 in. Measuring 6 x 6 in., impact-resistant single-wheel grinder is available with 2 different sized arms. Shields are made of clear 3/16 in. polycarbonate and can be mounted using direct-mount base fastened to grinder table or pedestal. Able to be secured to flat ferrous mounting surface, magnetic base...

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Architectural & Civil Engineering Products

Barrier Guards safeguard personnel from machines.

Designed and constructed to meet OSHA Regulations and ANSI standards, Barrier Guards are made-to-order and are used on front, sides, and backside of machines to protect employees. Framework is extruded aluminum channel and attaches directly to machine using mounting bracket hardware. Depending on guard's application, different panel constructions are available, including Â-½ in. square mesh...

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Health, Medical, & Dental Supplies and Equipment

Lathe Chuck Safety Shields deliver operator protection.

Designed for protection against exposure to rotating chuck, flying chips, and coolant splash, lathe shields come in sliding, crosslide-travel, small and large steel, as well as transparent versions. All shields have polycarbonate window that promotes visibility into point of operation, and various mounting rods, hinges, and brackets are available for mounting to lathe headstock. Frames can be...

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Flexible-Arm Shields protect machine users from swarf.
Health, Medical, & Dental Supplies and Equipment

Flexible-Arm Shields protect machine users from swarf.

Used on lathes, drills, mills, grinders, band saws, or similar equipment, shields place barrier between operator and flying chips, sparks, and coolant generated at point of operation. Heavy-duty, flexible arms are made of spring steel and covered with vinyl to protect them from contaminants that would lessen their holding power. Offered with direct or magnetic mounting base, shields have...

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Rockford Systems Reopens Machine Safeguarding Seminars to In-Person Learning

Company also expands popular online seminar program to monthly schedule in response to growing demand ROCKFORD, IL, MARCH 29, 2021 -- -- Rockford Systems, LLC. today announced plans to reopen its in-person Machine Safeguarding Seminars following the suspension of live learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. The first two-and-half day live seminar is scheduled to restart April 21-23 with...

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New Assessment Service Offers Organizations with Machine Safeguarding Needs

New Assessment Service Offers Organizations with Machine Safeguarding Needs

Available for cutting and turning machines including drill presses, vertical mills, grinders, small lathes, saws, sanders and riveters. Remote Safeguarding Assessment service designed for customers with less complex machine safeguarding requirements. Helps to understand mechanical components of machinery and hazardous mechanical motion that occurs near machines to avoid injury.

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Rockford Systems Forms New Combustion Safety Division, Featuring Best-In-Class Valve Safety Train Delivery

Rockford, Ill., April 1, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Rockford Systems, LLC., a premier provider of machine safeguarding solutions, today announced that it has expanded its industrial safety solution portfolio to better meet its customers' manufacturing safety needs. Rockford Systems has launched a new Combustion Safety division that provides turnkey solutions for organizations that use thermal...

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Rockford Systems Lifts Curtain on Newly Expanded Training Center for Machine Safety Training

New NFPA 70E electrical safety seminar starts in August Rockford, Il, March 8, 2018 -- Rockford Systems, LLC., a premier provider of machine safeguarding products and services, is celebrating the opening of its multi-purpose Training Center located within the company's new headquarters in Rockford, IL. Launched in response to growing demand for the company's popular machine safeguarding...

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Webinar Details Advantages of New Soft Touch Pinch-Point Safety System

Inventor Roger Hirsch to Explain How Soft Touch Prevents Riveter and Welder Injuries ROCKFORD, IL, JUNE 7, 2018 -- Spot welder and riveter operators often need to hold parts close to moving electrodes or riveting tips where hands or fingers can be caught between the tips, resulting in amputations and other bodily damage. To help prevent these injuries and advance worker safety on plant...

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Press Brake and Power Press Safety is Topic of Next Rockford Systems Mini-Webinar

ROCKFORD, IL, MARCH 1, 2018 - In the face of global competition, fabricators are looking for new ways to lower per-piece costs. While automation is one option, another attactive opportunity is machine safeguarding. Having proper safetyguarding in place can not only reduce accidents, it can increase a fabricator's overall productivity and profitability, eliminate costly OSHA violations and legal...

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FREE Machine Safeguarding Devices Catalog

ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS - Rockford Systems introduces a FREE, full-color Machine Safeguarding Devices catalog (MSD) that features a wide-range of safeguarding devices and other safety-related products for updating hazardous machinery and processes. These devices are designed for point-of-operation safeguarding as well as for auxiliary guarding and large work-envelope safeguarding. The safeguarding...

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Waterjet Cutting Services

ROCKFORD, IL - Rockford Systems, Inc. announces the addition of a Flow Mach 3 Waterjet machine to their 40-year-old family-owned business. Rockford Systems now offers waterjet cutting services to consumers as well as enhancing their own production capabilities for the products they sell in the machine safeguarding industry, With a 6' by 10' machine bed, the possibilities are almost limitless,...

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