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News Release from: Fortress Interlocks | Subject: Amgard modular safety gate switches
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 06 April 2006
Pod keeps operators out of dangerous
areas
Option pod with keyswitch for modular safety gate switches ensures an operator can only enter a potentially hazardous area when it is safe.
Fortress Interlocks has introduced an option pod with keyswitch for the company's Amgard range of modular safety gate switches The option pod ensures an operator can only enter a potentially hazardous area when it is safe
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 19 Oct 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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It prevents inadvertent restart of the machinery while an operator is in there, and a second pod inside the area can be used to initiate safe robot programming using the key.
Amgard combines trapped key and gate switch technology to control access to equipment protected by safety guarding.
Removal of the key from the pod selects machine stop at the end of a run down cycle.
When the solenoid within the connected gate switch has been energised, access can be gained.
The operator takes the safety key into the hazardous area preventing restart.
Inside the guarded area, a robot's teach mode can be initiated by insertion of the key into a second pod.
This overrides the circuits that operate the robot and enables the separate circuits that allow safe teaching.
Reverse robot or machine start is only possible when the key is released from the programming pod, the door safely closed and the key inserted into the pod onto the guarding door.
The range consists of modular units, providing flexibility.
Customised interlock systems can be created to individual specifications using standard products.
The modular functionality means it can be configured to accommodate the latest safety standards and be updated in the future.
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