Safety
Functional safety and compliance with the Machinery Directive are gaining relevance in all areas of machine and plant automation, but also raise a number of questions. The Safety section of the Pepperl+Fuchs blog provides answers to various aspects of the functional safety of devices in safety-relevant applications. With more than 50 years of experience, Pepperl+Fuchs is a pioneer in this field and has one of the largest safety portfolios on the market—from intrinsically safe devices to individual safety concepts.
Safety
Functional safety and compliance with the Machinery Directive are gaining relevance in all areas of machine and plant automation, but also raise a number of questions. The Safety section of the Pepperl+Fuchs blog provides answers to various aspects of the functional safety of devices in safety-relevant applications. With more than 50 years of experience, Pepperl+Fuchs is a pioneer in this field and has one of the largest safety portfolios on the market—from intrinsically safe devices to individual safety concepts.
Ensuring Product Safety in Hazardous Areas with Intrinsic Safety
Special care must be taken when using electrical devices in potentially explosive atmospheres. A proven and flexible protection method to ensure the safety of products used in hazardous areas is the intrinsic safety type of protection.
Intrinsic Safety Type of Protection: A Fundamental Overview
Learn more about intrinsic safety (Ex i) type of protection, it's main purpose, application and advantages. We take a look at the classification system, the different levels of protection, and three important terms used to describe intrinsic safety.
Smart-Ex® 03 Intrinsically Safe Smartphone with All-Around USB-C Interface
The Smart-Ex 03 intrinsically safe, 5G-capable Android smartphone features the USB 3.1 Type-C standard interface and offers you a complete desktop experience via a multiport adapter. Learn more about the advantages the USB-C connector offers for your digital applications.
How to Easily Implement Intrinsic Safety with Ethernet-APL
In the definition of Ethernet-APL, intrinsic safety is an integral component which enables all market participants to use this type of protection worldwide and to operate devices of any manufacturer in a network. Learn more about the ease of realizing an intrinsically safe Ethernet-APL network with just three steps.
Machine Guard Monitoring in the Food Processing Industry
In the food processing industry, size reduction equipment is widely used to process foods from their original shapes and sizes into their final forms, like shredded cheese, sliced and diced vegetables, potato chips, and peanut butter. Pepperl+Fuchs offers a safety system for machine guard monitoring combined of a safety monitor and magnetic field sensors for use in hazardous areas.
SIL 3 Current Drivers for Intrinsically Safe Signals – Minimal Hardware Costs and Improved Test Intervals
Pepperl+Fuchs' innovative SIL 3 current drivers featuring Ex ia control circuits make complex workarounds implementing redundancy via two SIL 2 control circuits a thing of the past. Most importantly, the new isolated barriers can improve the test intervals of SIL 2 shutdowns. Read this blog article to find out exactly how.
Three Misconceptions about Safety Integrity Level
The safety integrity level, or SIL for short, is an indicator that makes risk reduction quantifiable. Plant and machinery can pose risks that are so dangerous that people and the environment should not be exposed to them under any circumstances. In this blog article, we look at three misconceptions about SIL.
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