Safety optoelectronic devices are mandatory for the protection of operators, and people in general, in potentially hazardous areas, plants and machinery, in a wide range of industries and applications from manufacturing to logistics.
Manufacturing industry applications include safeguarding of automotive and electronics plants, especially robotic cells; food & beverage, pharmaceutical, chemical goods processing and packaging machines; up to almost any machinery used in woodworking, metalworking, textile, hydraulic presses, ceramic, glass, stones, paper, etc.
Logistics applications are diffused in automated material handling, conveyors, storage and retrieval systems, automated warehouses, and automated guided vehicles (AGVs).
Safety optoelectronic devices offer the best solution, whether your organization must comply with machine safeguarding requirements or you are looking for Safety Solutions to protect operators in presence of automated machinery, robots or vehicles.
Safety Light Curtains (AOPD) are used for hazardous point protection with a finger, hand or arm resolution detection, as well as access protection with Safety Light Grids or Photocells and Control Units by detecting the body passage or fixed presence:
is protected preventing the hand or finger access to a hazardous point due to the presence of moving parts, sharp edge, at high temperatures, or where hazardous substances are present or whose contamination must be prevented.
Movements are stopped if an operator tries to access or is present in dangerous points; however, special functions such as "Muting" make it possible to distinguish the passage of materials or pallets without stopping the process.
protected from access with the possibility of creating long distance perimeter protections with the combination of barriers and mirrors, while in vertical warehouses the access is controlled with a hand or finger protection.
with one or more access points are protected with one or more Safety Light Curtains, or Photocells and Control Units that detect the access of people and create safety conditions by stopping the movement of the robotic arm.
The movement is safe thanks to Safety Laser Scanner, which detect people or obstacles in the configured navigation area, with the possibility of setting "warning" areas that slow down and "safety" that stop the vehicle.
The movement and operations are also protected with a Safety Laser Scanners, either against the possibility of causing damage to operators and against accidental bumping into obstacles in the configured area.
Working area can be delimited and protected by configuring the detection areas of the Safety Laser Scanners, thus creating "warning" and "safety" areas.
Micron Technologies is among the pioneers and major manufacturers of Safety optoelectronic devices and among the few to have proprietary technologies – that is for the user a guarantee of proven product knowledge, reliability, and best Safety Solutions.
in terms of lines, functions, detection resolution, protected height or distance range, interfaces, etc. – for the user it means obtaining the best ratio between performance and cost, having exactly what is needed without compromise.
like EDM, blanking, cascading, muting, override, daisy-chain configurability – represent benefits because the user can optimize the application, often eliminating components and external functions integrated by the safety opto-device.
application specific models with smaller "slim" size, hygienic design enclosure in IP69K stainless steel for aseptic areas, OpenSafety over Powerlink interface, strong vibration resistant models - are just examples of specific customer needs solved.
With over 25 years of expertise, Micron Technologies specializes in delivering end-to-end industrial automation solutions across diverse manufacturing sectors.
