PECM Issue 18 2016 | Page 67

Health & Safety Plug and Play safety Setting up access guarding with muting has never been easier thanks to MLDSET A ccess guards for machines and systems are often complex systems with different individual components, which must be individually assembled and com-patible. This also requires long installation and start-up processes. “Leuze elec-tronic has developed MLDSET protective sensor sets, which are easy to install via Plug and Play with or without the muting function”, explains Markus Pollmeier of BEUMER, where the efficient sets are used in palleting and packaging systems. “The special thing about the MLDSET systems from Leuze electronic is that all of the access guarding components are pre-mounted for typical muting applications in a practical way”, states Markus Pollmeier, head of department for palleting and pack-aging technology at the BEUMER Group in Beckum. “This saves a lot of time during installation as well as during start-up on site”, states Pollmeier happily. He sees another advantage in that fact that ready-made systems can also be in-stalled extremely easily by technicians that have not been specially trained – world-wide. After all, the BEUMER group is a company that operates all over the world. Typical areas of application for BEUMER The BEUMER Group is an internationally leading manufacturer of intralogistics in the areas of conveyor and loading technology, palleting and packaging technology and also sorting and distribution systems. Together with Crisplant a/s and Enexco Teknologies India Limited, the company group has around 4,000 employees in numerous branches and is present in over 70 countries worldwide. Typical systems in which the safety photoelectric sensor sets from Leuze electronic are used are high palletizers such as the BEUMER paletpac® system, palletizing robots in the BEUMER robotpac® series and packaging systems such as the BEUMER stretch hood®. Those systems are individually customized to the respective requirements, and take the product properties of the individual packaged goods into consideration as well as the desired packaging patterns and pallet sizes. Normally, these systems are completely enclosed in safety barriers. In “gaps” and open locations, particularly for moving materials in an d out, MLDSET systems are used with light scanners as muting sensors for unimpeded material transport. www.leuze.co.uk SMARTER PRODUCT USABILITY AS-i SAFETY INSIDE – MLC SAFETY LIGHT CURTAINS With the integrated AS-i interface of the MLC safety light curtains with direct M12 connection, you reduce your mounting, wiring and connection costs considerably. integrated connec tivity. Joachim Koperski, Head of Product Center – Light Curtains For more information call 01480 408 500 or go to www.leuze.co.uk Issue 18 PECM 67