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News Release from: Siemens Automation and Drives | Subject: Simatic FS6601 laser scanner
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 08 January 2007
Scanner is approved for hand and arm
protection
Laser scanner with vertical safeguarding protects personnel in the hazardous areas of plants and around machinery and driverless transport systems.
Siemens Automation and Drives division has launched the Simatic FS6601 laser scanner The scanner with vertical safeguarding protects personnel in the hazardous areas of plants and around machinery and driverless transport systems
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 6 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The laser scanner is equipped with a number of predetermined safety actions, which are triggered if anybody enters into the protection field and shuts down the machine.
The scanner is suitable for entry and exit control as well as hand, arm and leg detection - a crucial innovation when compared with horizontal safeguarding methods.
The device is also equipped with transistor outputs as well as ASisafe and Profisafe connections, ensuring that it can easily be integrated into higher level safety solutions.
Approved for safeguarding hazard points with hand and arm protection, the scanner is able to protect the operator against "hazardous movements" made by the machine as well as when loading the machine or removing the work pieces.
One of the key advantages of the system is the user's ability to predetermine the protection fields, with a reference contour.
This ensures that the scanner, when in operation, can compare the scanned environment with the reference guide at every individual measurement, and thus enables reliable detection of manipulated protection equipment as well as any unsecured access of personnel.
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