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Choosing a safe drive solution for woodworking machinery

When it comes to material, surface and solid wood processing, choosing the right drive solution for the woodworking machine is critical. As different as the requirements for the drive controllers are, one topic is always important: ensuring the highest possible level of safety, says Mark Checkley, Managing Director of KEB UK.

30/06/2023 10:52:25

Functional safety is intended to keep the risks posed by technical equipment to people and the environment as low as possible. Processing machines or machine tools, for example, can endanger machine operators through tools that rotate at high speed.

To prevent this from occurring in the first place, KEB UK provides drive solutions with integral safety functions with or without an encoder. To avoid dangerous operating conditions, such safety functions monitor the speeds, directions of rotation or axis positions.

As safety functions are already integrated into KEB’s drive controllers and interact optimally with its safety controllers, users can implement functional safety cost-effectively.

Read the full article in DPA's July issue

Written By Sophia Bell

Sophia Bell is the Group Editor of DPA, Connectivity, and PBSI. She joined the team in 2020 as Assistant Editor after achieving a First-Class Honours BA in English Literature and Film Studies from the University of East Anglia. In her current role, she leads the editorial strategy, driving digital growth and ensuring each title continues to deliver trusted, relevant insight for engineering and manufacturing professionals.