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Read the online version if links don't work in this Machine Safety Update. | | | July 2009 | Sponsor: Omron STI | Machine & Process Safety Engineering Guide 
Omron STI's 1500+ page Engineering Guide to Machine and Process Safeguarding is now available. This two-volume set is the most comprehensive machine and process safety product and technical reference guide available in the industry today. In addition to detailing Omron STI's complete family of machine and process safety solutions, the guide contains more than 225 pages of educational resource material. Request your free guide | Sponsor: SICK | Download SICK's New Safety Guide Today! 
SICK's easy-to-use safety guide, "Guidelines for Safe Machinery — Six Steps to a Safe Machine," contains safety requirements and guidelines for North America. This guide describes laws, regulations and standards to ensure the safety of machinery and people. Click here to download this guide. Click here to download the safety guide | Visit our Automation Portals | Our Automation Portals organize information on various topics and include content published on Automation.com as well as other industry websites. Each portal includes new products, company news, articles, white papers, application stories, training, resources, events, and more. Visit these one-stop sites for all your automation information | | | In this Issue |  | | Featured Articles | Industrial Robots: Safety First
Industrial Automation Asia, June 2009
By Mike Bowman, Applied Robotics
With technological advancements and the rise of a new generation of high dynamic robots, successful integration of production processes has the potential to yield greater efficiency and productivity. Failure to ensure appropriate safety measures within the production process, however, can pose significant risks with costly ramifications. Motors For Dusty Atmospheres – A Potentially Explosive Development
Process Industry Informer, July 2009
By Steve Ruddel, Drives & Motors GB
Industries dealing with solids handling, like food, pharmaceuticals and chemicals, must now use hazardous area motors, like the oil and gas industries have for many years. Combustible dust can be just as explosive as gas and needs to be treated accordingly. 10 years of flexible functional safety
HazardEx, June 2009
Based on its openness and widespread installation, PROFIsafe is currently the global market leader with over 630,000 PROFIsafe nodes. Ten years ago, however, it was necessary to convince safety authorities, 25 renowned safety engineering companies, and users to accept the completely new technology. Machine guard fastening and the new Directive
Design Products & Applications, June 2009
By John Snyder
Within the European Union, the new Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC, which becomes effective on December 29, 2009, is part of an approach to harmonise standards and establish the regulatory foundation for health and safety requirements of machinery throughout that market. Uptime and the new age of safety control
What’s New in Process Technology, June 2009
By Gary Milburn, Rockwell Automation
Unleashed by new safety standards that embrace the latest microprocessor technologies, modern safety control systems are now intricately tied to how the plant operates — not only optimising worker safety, but improving productivity and uptime.
| | Browse more articles and white papers on the Machine Safety portal. | Live News Feed | | | | | Product Announcements |  | SICK announces FX3 Flexi Soft modular safety controller
Flexi Soft is a software programmable, expandable, easy-to-commission safety controller that can be adapted to a variety of safety applications for small- to medium-sized machines.
|  | Longwatch enhances Video System
Enhancements make it easier for users to integrate cameras in local and remote areas, combine video data with a wide variety of plant information, and enable operators to access video data from HMI terminals, cellphones or on a PC via the Internet.
| _thumb.jpg) | Keyence introduces SL-V safety light curtain
SL-V incorporates highly-visible indicators to facilitate set-up and to easily see the current operating status.
| | | Other Product Announcements | Browse more Product Announcements on the Machine Safety portal. Search all Products by keyword, category, manufacturer or release date. | | White Papers | Embracing the Benefits of Integrated Safety
By Siemens
Thanks to the easing of restrictions that once kept software-based safety systems out of automation, manufacturers now are able to move away from standalone, dedicated equipment to integrated solutions that allow safety functions and automation and control operations to run on the same system. A compelling case exists for letting go of the hardwired equipment that has defined manufacturing safety systems to this point and embracing an integrated approach. Prevent 24 VDC overloads from stopping production
By Kai Bronzel, Siemens
Advanced technologies require more intelligent protection. For today’s preferred switched mode power supplies, it means that circuit breakers and fuses are inadequate for protecting individual 24 VDC load circuits. Making safety a priority when employing tool exchange systems
By Applied Robotics
Tool exchange systems on robots should not threaten the welfare of the workers on the factory floor or adversely affect the total output of the production line. Here’s how to make tool exchangers work safely. Confusion and misconceptions about NFPA-79
By Northwire
Different interpretations of NFPA-79 have generated articles in trade publications and on Web sites, in white papers and in discussions and debates. This paper provides information to sort out the misperceptions perpetuated about NFPA-79.
| Browse more white papers on the Machine Safety portal.
| | Resources & Literature | Machine & Process Safety Engineering Guide
Omron STI's 1500+ page Engineering Guide to Machine and Process Safeguarding is now available. This two-volume set is the most comprehensive machine and process safety product and technical reference guide available in the industry today. SICK publishes Guide for Safe Machinery
The 116-page, illustrated guide contains safety requirements and guidelines for North America to ensure the safety of machinery and people. Omron STI publishes guide to Machine and Process Safety Services
Guide details the company’s suite of services including machine and process safety education, assessment and risk identification, engineering and design, as well as integration and implementation. Omron STI announces Asset Relocation Assessment services
Program helps companies determine the federal and local compliance level of its machines that qualify for relocation, and the cost to bring those machines into compliance.
| Browse more resources and literature on the Machine Safety portal.
| | Application Stories | Automation reduces scrap for plastics manufacturer
Control Engineering, July 2009
By Cathy Powell, Motion Control Robotics
A pre-engineered six-axis robotic system for blow-molded bottle handling improves operator safety and manufacturing efficiency. Going underground
Control Engineering Europe, June 2009
A wide-ranging information system, based on a Telent SCADA platform, has recently been implemented across parts of the London Underground boosting control, improving safety and providing superior communications. Explosion-proof enclosures simplify maintenance of fire and gas detection systems
HazardEX, May 2009
PDC Systems, a supplier of hazardous area electrical instrumentation, is using explosion-proof enclosures from Cooper Crouse-Hinds to protect fire and gas monitoring and control systems that it supplies to a wide range of hazardous gas applications. Fire detection on electric mountain
HazardEX, May 2009
It isn’t every day you need to specify a fire detection system for an industrial complex inside a mountain – but that was the challenge facing International Power, owners of Dinorwig Power Station near Snowdonia National Park in North Wales. Air shut-off valves and spark arrestors protect LNG terminal
HazardEx, April 2009
Chalwyn air shut off valves and exhaust spark arrestors have been fitted on the maintenance vehicles working at the Milford Haven South Hook LNG terminal. This is to match the high level of hazardous area safety at the facility to that achieved in the Middle East at the Qatar Gas LNG production plant.
| Browse more application stories on the Machine Safety portal.
| | Featured Training | | Fundamentals of Intrinsic Safety (Ex) seminar
August 19, 2009 Houston, TX
This educational training seminar will provide an in depth overview of the theory behind Intrinsic Safety (Ex) protection and its application within the process industry. Purge and Pressurization Systems seminar
October 21, 2009 Houston, TX
This one-day training session covers purging, how to determine the need, what is used to purge/pressurize an enclosure, and what types of enclosures and devices can be purged. Price: $350. Machine and process safeguarding seminars
One-day training seminars by Omron STI help educate plant personnel on the requirements and methods of machine and process safeguarding.
| Browse more training and seminar opportunities on the Machine Safety portal.
| | Company & Organizational News | Phoenix Contact obtains ATEX approval
Phoenix Contact received a Quality Assurance Notification (QAN) certificate to design and produce products that meet the ATEX (Directive 94/9/EC and IECEx) standard for explosive atmospheres. Aaxeon Ethernet switches receive UL Class I, Division 2 Certification
Lanolinx Ethernet switches and Optolinx media converters received UL Class I, Division 2 Certification for operation in hazardous environments. Swedish Factory Fined After Robot Grabs Worker’s Head
Robotics Trends, May 2009
A Swedish company has been fined the equivalent of $3,000 for an incident in which an industrial robot grabbed a worker’s head and broke four ribs as he was attempting to repair it. As he approached, the robot arm, normally used to lift heavy rocks, reached out and grabbed the man’s head. ISA99 plans Working Group on cyber security and safety
ISA99 Working Group 7 will promote greater awareness of the impact of cyber security issues on the safe operation of industrial processes. Factory Automation Safety Networks: The New Differentiator
Industrial Automation Asia, April 2009
By Chantal Polsonetti, ARC Advisory Group
Growth in the safety network market will parallel that of serial-based device networks from the perspective of the wiring savings a bus-based network can deliver relative to hard wiring of safety components. Growth in the worldwide market for factory automation safety networks will be 39.3 percent overthe next five years. The market totaled less than 700 thousand nodes in 2008, a figure that is forecast to grow to over 3.6 million in 2013.
| Browse more company and organizational news on the Machine Safety portal. | | Featured Events | Hazardous Areas Conference
August 11-13, 2009 Melbourne, Australia
The conference will present an industry-wide forum to examine and discuss the latest local and international practices and standards in hazardous areas. The overall objective of this conference is to share best practices and new technologies in hazardous areas. Energy and Power Distribution Conference
September 29-October 1, 2009 Houston, Texas
The conference will feature best practices from presenters who are specialists in electrical distribution, energy management and arc flash safety. ISA EXPO 2009
October 6-10, 2009 Houston, Texas
ISA EXPO is focused on the technology and techniques of automation and control. Organized around the six core themes central to automation and control, ISA EXPO 2009 provides attendees unlimited opportunity to explore key technologies, discover professional growth, and interact with like minded professionals. Hannover Messe Middle East
February 9-11, 2010 Dubai
Deutsche Messe Hannover will be staging CeMAT Middle East, Industrial Automation (IA) Middle East, and Motion, Drive & Automation (MDA) Middle East together. HazardEx 2010
February 24-25, 2010 Harrogate, UK
A comprehensive trade event with many specialist companies who supply products or services to the safety and hazardous area industries.
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