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News Release from: Siemens Automation and Drives | Subject: Simatic fs6601
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 08 January 2007
New Siemens Simatic FS6601 laser scanner
The Simatic FS6601 laser scanner provides vertical safeguarding to protect personnel in the hazardous areas of plants and around machinery and driver-less transport systems
Siemens Automation and Drives has launched the Simatic FS6601 laser scanner, that provides vertical safeguarding to protect personnel in the hazardous areas of plants and around machinery and driver-less transport systems The laser scanner is equipped with a number of pre-determined safety actions, which are triggered if anybody enters into the protection field, which shuts down the machine
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 10 Apr 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The scanner is suitable for entry and exit control as well as hand, arm and leg detection - a crucial innovation when compared to horizontal safeguarding methods.
The device is also equipped with transistor outputs as well as AS-i:safe and Profisafe connections, ensuring that it can easily be integrated into higher level safety solutions.
Approved for safeguarding hazard points with hand and arm protection, the scanner is able to protect the operator against 'hazardous movements' made by the machine as well as when loading the machine or removing the work pieces.
One of the key advantages of the system is the user ability to pre-determine the protection fields, with a reference contour.
This ensures that the scanner, when in operation, can compare the scanned environment with the reference guide for every individual measurement, and thus enables reliable detection of manipulated protection equipment as well as any unsecured access of personnel.
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