Machine Safeguarding
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Rockford Systems Redesigns Website
Users now have a more precise way to search out safeguarding systems based on their machinery type or product category by using a highly logical, well-defined structure.
Rockford Systems and Master Lock Enter Partnership on Safety Technologies
Their mission is to reduce workplace accidents, improve job efficiencies, and help ensure manufacturers are in compliance with the latest machine guarding and lockout/tagout standards.
Adding Safety to Common Automated Processes
The four-sided Defender Cell from Rite-Hite Machine Guarding restricts access and provides point-of-operation guarding around potentially dangerous automated and automatic processes, including stretch-wrap machine operations.
Next Steps in Industrial Dust Explosion Protection
Among its directives, NFPA 652 outlines deadlines for sampling and analysis to identify potential risk areas for dust explosions in industrial facilities. The spotlight now turns to mitigation equipment.
Milwaukee Tool Expands Warnings & Instructions for M18 HIGH DEMAND 9.0 Battery Pack
These expanded product warnings address situations that could lead to a battery pack failure and/or other safety hazards.
Rockford Systems Becomes Authorized Distributor for Lazersafe
They now sell the Sentinel Plus press brake guarding system in North America to safeguard operators from serious injury.
Rockford Systems Expands Executive Sales Team
They realign management of sales territories, shift resources to support key markets, and add Mike Spain as director of key accounts.
What You Must Know About Die Safety Blocks
They protect anyone working in the die area of a press from a free-falling upper die/slide if a brake or counterbalance fails, a pitman arm or adjusting screw breaks, or hydraulic pressure is suddenly lost. These devices look simple, but many shops struggle with what type of to use, how many to use, and where to put them. Here’s what you need to know.
Upgrading Safety Equipment in High School Machine Shops
Rockford Systems launches a campaign to help raise funding and student awareness of the importance of machine safeguarding.
Hollow-Shaft Encoders Provide Functional Machine Safety
Ideal for quick machine shut-off in dangerous situations, ECN/EQN/ERN 400 connection encoders from Heidenhain use a new shaft coupling for mechanical fault exclusion when connecting to the user’s machine shaft.
Retractable Barriers Offer Full Protection, Flexible Access
The GuardRite Retractable Barrier System from Rite-Hite is ideal for wide loading, flatbed and finger docks, and protecting sensitive internal equipment installations and pedestrian areas from forklift impact in steel and automotive industry applications.
Automated Barrier Panel for Robotic Welding Cells
An alternative to light curtains or area scanners, the Vertiguard Automated Barrier Panel from Rite-Hite Machine Guarding is ideal for small interaction points with single or double robotic cells, part assembly, and conveyor openings.
