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Safety information
2.1
General safety note
The information and tools will not fulfill the safety requirements for your application
without further adjustments being made. The project planning provided by way of exam‐
ple is intended to serve as the basis to allow you to perform your own project planning
and programming in line with your specific requirements. What this means is that the
information and tools merely provide an example to demonstrate how a safety function
can be taken care of.
When it comes to your own project planning and programming, you will need to rely on
qualified staff given that it is your responsibility to ensure that the following require‐
ments are complied with at the very least:
b
Carrying out a risk assessment
b
Taking into account applicable standards
b
Verifying and validating the safety function
2.2
Intended use
The Safe Entry Exit safety system is used in hazardous areas with material transporta‐
tion via a conveyor (e.g., conveyor belt), e.g., a robot cell. Safe Entry Exit reduces the
risk of personal injury caused by passing through the machine’s material transporta‐
tion. Safe Entry Exit can be used both at the entry area as well as the exit area of the
material transportation.
Safe Entry Exit is suitable for applications with the following properties:
•
The material is moved by a conveyor into the hazardous area.
•
The conveyor moves at a defined speed (maximum of 4 different speeds) during
the transportation of the material.
•
The material is at least 500 mm long.
•
The length of the material is always identical or can be determined automatically
(e.g. via a combination of existing process signals).
2.3
Requirements for the qualification of personnel
The protective device must be configured, installed, connected, commissioned, and ser‐
viced by qualified safety personnel only.
Project planning
For project planning, a person is considered competent when he/she has expertise and
experience in the selection and use of protective devices on machines and is familiar
with the relevant technical rules and national work safety regulations.
Mechanical mounting, electrical installation, and commissioning
For the task, a person is considered qualified when he/she has the expertise and expe‐
rience in the relevant field and is sufficiently familiar with the application of the protec‐
tive device on the machine to be able to assess whether it is in an operationally safe
state.
Operation and maintenance
For operation and maintenance, a person is considered competent when he/she has
the expertise and experience in the relevant field and is sufficiently familiar with the
application of the protective device on the machine and has been instructed by the
machine operator in its operation.
SAFETY INFORMATION
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