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