Industrial Plant & Equipment

Dedicated bus system

Wieland Electric’s samos NET is a
new dedicated bus system designed
for use in conjunction with the
company’s samos PRO to make
machine and system interconnection
simpler. samos PRO is a compact
modular safety controlle

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Machinery safety training courses

Machinery safety specialist
Pilz Automation
Technology has published a
new machinery safety training course
schedule for 2011. The new booklet is
available now.

As well as a course introduced last
year on the new Mac

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Free machine guarding compliance surveys

Procter Machine Guarding is offering
free Machine Guarding Compliance
Surveys to organisations that operate
potentially hazardous machinery,
from standalone machines to complex
assemblies of machines.After an initial
te

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Multi-talented

The safety hasp or ‘multi-hasp’
is a simple device that enables
multiple maintenance
personnel to work on a
common isolated circuit or
device, safe in the knowledge
that power/energy cannot be
restored until they have

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Enhanced IP

Rupture disc manufacturer Elfab has
been awarded an Ingress Protection
(IP) rating of 66 for its ATEXapproved
burst detection system, Flo-
Tel+. The company believes Flo-Tel+
to be the only non-invasive, fail-safe
detec

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Trapped key interlocking systems

Baosteel, a large steel manufacturer
in China, is entrusting the safety of
personnel at its Shanghai plant to
trapped key interlocking systems
from Castell.

Many steel plants in China still
rely on warning signs to re

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Driving compliance

Car manufacturer, Jaguar, turned to
sensor and sensing systems
manufacturer, SICK (UK), to help
ensure production safety at its Castle
Bromwich facility is compliant with
the new Machinery Directive. Control
and standar

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Lockout & tagout

Complementing its Masterlock
padlocks, Securikey now offers a
series of safety lockout and tagout
products that help guard against
injury, caused by accidental machine
start up, by locking out control
switches and valve

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Safety sense

Panasonic Electric Works offers a
range of SUNX Safety Sensing
products designed to meet the
current SIL and PL safety
requirements. The range includes
single beam safety sensors, safety
light curtains and scanners.

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Virtual reality

Machinery safety and compliance
consultant, Laidler Associates, will
once again be sponsoring the Plant
& Machinery Safety Zone at Health
+ Safety 11 South. The company,
which specialises in machinery safety
legislation

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