A safety laser scanner sweeps a laser across an area and slows or stops the machine when someone enters the zones it has been set to monitor.
Scanners typically run a warning field that slows the machine and a protective field that stops it, which makes them common around robot cells and mobile platforms. Like light curtains, their positioning comes from EN ISO 13855.
Safety distance is the minimum gap between a person and a hazard, set so the dangerous parts cannot be reached before the machine stops, or at all.
EN ISO 13849-1 is the standard for designing and validating the safety-related parts of machine control systems; the yardstick is Performance Level.
A light curtain is an optoelectronic device that projects a field of infrared beams in front of a hazard and stops the machine the instant a beam is broken.
For nearly two decades, the Machinery Directive (2006/42/EC) has been the backbone of machinery safety compliance across Europe.
Introduction Machinery is now software-defined, connected, and increasingly autonomous. The Machinery Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 treats software failures as
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