Certified encoders for functional safety

• The efficient solution for implementing safety functions at drives
  • Reduced costs and improved productivity by avoiding unnecessary shutdowns
  • Easy integration into existing systems or for machine retrofitting with little effort 
  • Certified functional safety encoders, incremental SinCos or square wave signals, with mounting options, electronics and signal routing certified as well
  • Perfect match for your application in shaft and hollow shaft design, cable and connector outlet, varied mounting types
• Safe speed limits 
  • Safe monitoring of maximum speed
  • Function identical to that of classic mechanical speed switches
  • Trigger input limits speed only when required
  • Extended machine service life by avoiding overspeed
  • Shorter servicing time thanks to safe access to hazardous areas
  • Increased occupational safety
• Safe direction of travel
  • The machine will safely move in the defined direction only
  • For allowing access to hazardous areas, for example
  • Shorter set-up time thanks to better access to the set-up area
  • Increased occupational safety based on customer's hazard analysis of the safe direction
• Safe speed monitor
  • Ensuring that speed is below a defined minimum value
  • For allowing access to hazardous areas while the safety door is open, for example
  • Less time required to fix a blocking production line
  • Increased occupational safety based on customer's hazard analysis of speed limits

Implementation of safety functions, for example at

• Drives
• Cranes and lifting gears
• Theater stages
• Wind power plants
• Centrifuges
• Transport and conveyor systems
• Handling systems
• Driverless vehicles
• Dosing and filling machines
• Cutting, punching and pressing
• High-frequency spindles
• Pharmaceutical machines
• Saws
• And at any other machinery where persons access the machine's working space or danger zone

Use these combinations of encoder and speed monitor for simple and reliable monitoring of underspeed, overspeed, standstill and direction of rotation. The combinations easily will integrate in existing systems, either under aspects of machine design or for retrofitting.