Smart Safety enabling smarter machines and equipment
Harnessing the power of safety and operational data can substantially improve safety compliance and performance. Accessing safety system data and transforming it into meaningful information results in increased machinery productivity, and minimizes downtime.
To gain more diagnostic data traditional safety devices required more complex wiring solutions. With a Smart Safety solution, you can now access more diagnostic data and simplify your wiring system.
An integrated Smart Safety solution provides all the data needed to create a comprehensive picture of the status of the machine or production line.
Challenges to safe operations
Worker behaviors
- Operators bypassing poorly designed safety systems
- Systems that don’t account for procedural anomalies
- Standard operating procedures not being followed
Evolving workforce
- Safety implications of major workforce shift worldwide
- Older workers nearing retirement at higher risk of musculoskeletal injuries
- Younger, less experienced workers more prone to injury
Machinery downtime
- Downtime for jams, misfeeds, adjustments, changeovers and maintenance
- Minimal visibility of downtime information
- No context of downtime issues (workers interaction, machinery fault, shift patterns)
- Limited information to remedy issues
Regulatory compliance
- Compliance with industry standards can be challenging
- Documenting and reporting on approved safety systems can be challenging
Data management
- Continuing reliance on outdated data collection and reporting methods
- Safety data often manually entered for inspections, compliance logs, incident reports, training and other processes
- Systems in which data is stored typically not connected to plant floor systems
Smart Safety devices
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Smart Safety solutions provide detailed diagnostic data to your design environment, visualization system, information software, and GuardLogix® Programmable Automation Controller – enabling Smart Machines for Smart Manufacturing and helping to increase productivity and minimize downtime while reducing total cost of ownership.
Smart Safety enables Smart Machines for Smart Manufacturing
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A solution incorporating Smart Safety devices enables safety professionals to transform the way they monitor and manage safety. Rockwell Automation provides a complete Smart Safety solution to meet safety requirements, covering safety input devices, safety logic, and safety output devices.
Benefits of a Smart Safety solution
Improve insight into worker behavior and compliance
By incorporating safety information into EHS management systems, day to day discrepancies between policies and operating procedures can be identified.
Enhance safety
Connecting people, equipment and worksites create new opportunities to enhance worker and environmental safety, including remote access, operations visibility, worker location and information delivery via mobile devices.
Reduce safety-related downtime
Better visibility into safety-system performance and stoppages can help determine the root cause of shutdowns. Safety and production data also can be combined to understand the frequency, duration, time and location of safety-related shutdowns.
Improve compliance
The safety data required for compliance and reporting purposes is largely collected through time-consuming, error-prone manual audits today. By integrating auditing functions into the HMI and controller, organizations can automate and speed up the auditing process, free up personnel to focus on other priorities, and reduce the likelihood of errors.
3 pillars of support for your safety requirements
Pillar one
The right products
Rockwell Automation has the broadest portfolio of any machinery safety solutions supplier, and can provide all three parts of a safety system.
Safety input devices
• Presence sensing safety devices
• Safety interlock switches
• Emergency stop and trip devices
• Operator interface
Safety logic controllers
• Safety relays
• Configurable safety relay
• Integrated safety controllers
• Safety I/O devices
Connection systems/networks
• ‘Quick connect’ connection systems
• Safety over EtherNet/IP
• GuardLink™ linking technology
3 pillars of support for your safety requirements
Pillar two
The right people
A comprehensive range of safety services and support is available from both Rockwell Automation and its machinery safety certified ‘Recognised System Integrator’ partners.
TÜV Rheinland certified machine safety training courses
Helping deliver staff training that qualifies towards an industry-standard TÜV Rheinland Certificate, enabling trainees to understand safety requirements and compliance.Risk Assessment Service
The global safety team of consultants and partners from Rockwell Automation can assist end users, integrators and OEMs at any step of a safeguarding project. Comply with safety standards to reduce the risk of injuries and improve productivity.
Trained staff and partners
Rockwell Automation has TÜV Rheinland machinery safety qualifications it requires its employees and partners to achieve in order to support you. Leverage their knowledge now.
Knowledge of automation and safety
The benefit of partnering with Rockwell Automation is you gain the support and expertise of people who understand automation and safety, not just safety.
3 pillars of support for your safety requirements
Pillar three
The right tools
A wide range of tools that support compliance with safety standards, reduce the risk of injuries and improve productivity.
Safety Automation Builder
FREE software tool to help simplify machine safety design and validation, reducing time and costs. Integration with RASWin Risk Assessment Software provides you with consistent, reliable, documented management of the Functional Safety Lifecycle.SISTEMA integration
The SISTEMA tool automates calculation of the attained Performance Level outlined in (EN) ISO 13849-1. Data is available to be used with the SISTEMA calculation tool.
• Helps users in the design stage
• Comprehensive Rockwell Automation database
Pre-engineered Safety Functions
Machine safety can be developed by combining blocks of safety functions. Our pre-engineered safety functions come with a SISTEMA Performance Level calculation as outlined in (EN) ISO 13849-1.
• Reduces design times
• Includes set-up, wiring, configuration, and validation information
• Complete bill of materials
Accelerator Toolkits
Easy to use system design, programming, and diagnostic tools to assist in the rapid development and deployment of safety systems.
• Reduces design time and risk
Adopt a Smart Safety solution today
Allen‑Bradley® Guardmaster® smart safety devices that feature GuardLink technology deliver information, advanced functionality, and flexibility. This technology helps enhance safety and increase machine- and plant-wide efficiency.
GuardLink technology enabled devices offer advanced features and diagnostics that can only be accessed through a GuardLink enabled connection tap. The benefits of GuardLink technology include:
• Real time, contextual diagnostics and sensor health data significantly improve troubleshooting
• Automatic Device Reset (ADR)
• Seamless integration into Rockwell Automation EtherNet/IP™ architecture
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