Harnessing the power of safety and operational data can substantially improve safety compliance and performance.
Accessing safety system data and transforming it into meaningful information results in increased machinery productivity and minimises downtime.
To gain more diagnostic data, traditional safety devices required more complex wiring solutions. With a SMART Safety solution, you can now access more diagnostic data and simplify your wiring system. An integrated SMART Safety solution provides all the data needed to create a comprehensive picture of the status of the machine or production line.
Benefits of SMART Safety
Increase productivity
By capturing system diagnostics
Minimise downtime
With diagnostic information from the safety system
Enhance protection
Protect your people and assets
Broad product portfolio
Benefit from the broadest portfolio of safety products, solutions and services
Challenges to Safety
Worker behaviours
The number 1 reason for safety system failures is that the solution is bypassed.
Evolving workforce
A major workforce shift is underway worldwide, and the safety implications are significant.
Machinery stoppages
Companies often have minimal visibility into why or when machinery stoppages occur.
Regulatory compliance
Compliance with complex global safety standards is increasingly essential but also challenging.
Emerging technologies
Advanced safety technologies enable companies to address safety & productivity in new ways,
Data management
Outdated data collection and reporting methods. Manual entry of safety data for logs, reports, etc.
Pillars of Safety
SMART Safety in action
Learn more about practical applications that can address your challenges and take your site to the next level.
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Inputs
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Logic
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Outputs
Drives & Motors
Safety options can help reduce machine downtime and increase productivity. To help you protect both your personnel and equipment, a variety of PowerFlex® drives are available with safety features. The PowerFlex 525 AC drives include embedded Safe Torque-Off as a standard feature. Safe Torque-Off is an optional feature for the PowerFlex 40P, 70, 700H, 700S, and 750-Series AC drives, which also support Safe Speed Monitor functionality. Additionally, you can configure drives without a safety option using the MSR57P Safety Relay.
ControlLogix Safety I/O
A wide selection of PowerFlex AC and DC variable frequency drives and Kinetix servo drives that are all designed for flexibility, productivity, safety and ease of use. Our VFDs handle both low voltage and medium voltage applications, with a wide range of power ratings. Kinetix servo drives offer the right size and feature set to handle a broad range of applications from single axis component drives to multi-axis modular drives. We offer solutions that are designed to help you simplify machine design while you improve system performance. Various motors that are designed for optimum performance and service life round out this offering.
Safety Contactors and Relays
100S Safety Contactors provide safe isolation of hazardous motion loads, using mirror contact performance. Mirror contacts provide reliable indication about the open or closed status of the main power poles.
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Software
Design
Design software helps you maximize automation productivity through reduced design time, creating new ways to lower costs by creating consistent, modularized solutions that improve manufacturing efficiency.
HMI
FactoryTalk View provides robust and reliable functionality in an HMI solution that scales from a stand-alone, machine-level HMI to a distributed visualization solution. With FactoryTalk View, HMI challenges in process, batch and discrete applications are managed in a single software package that extends beyond the walls of your facility to deliver critical visibility on demand, improving the productivity of users at every level of your organization.
Manufacturing Intelligence
Enterprise manufacturing intelligence software helps to free the data currently locked within your control and business systems and deliver actionable information to improve productivity, increase yield and reduce costs. Rockwell Automation Manufacturing Intelligence solutions produce analytics that help in decision making, when and where you need it, to improve plant efficiencies and Overall Equipment Effectiveness to save time and money.
Configuration Collaboration
The Bulletin 1756 ControlLogix™ chassis-based modules provide a full range of digital, diagnostic digital, analog, motion control, specialty I/O, and compute modules to meet your application needs. You can use any of the chassis-based modules in the local chassis of a ControlLogix controller or in a chassis linked to a ControlLogix controller across ControlNet or EtherNet/IP networks. The range now includes Safety I/O.
Safety automation builder
Invaluable software designed to help simplify machine safety system design and validation.
Pre-engineered safety functions for machines
Machine safety can be developed by combining blocks of safety functions to provide a complete safety solution.
Safety ROI tool
The evidence is clear: safety is good business. Find out how to quantify the savings and productivity gains from safety investments.
Safety Maturity Index
The Safety Maturity Index is an invaluable tool that offers visibility into safety processes.
Machinery Safebook 5 - A Guide to Machine Safety
Practical guide to the principles of machine safety, legislation, theory and practice.
People and services
Together with Rockwell Automation, the world's largest industrial safety provider, we help to reduce injuries and costs while improving productivity at every phase of the Safety Life Cycle.
Safety services are delivered by experienced staff who are safety qualified, many with TUV Rheinland Machinery Safety certifications. We have people who are TUV Functional Safety Experts, Engineers and Technicians to help customers with their holistic safety lifecycle.
The Safety Life Cycle is a clearly-defined process that helps to maximize productivity and improve safety by identifying the steps required to assess and mitigate machinery risks. The Safety Life Cycle can be seen and downloaded in this document.
Safety assessments
Services that help to evaluate plant risk and support well-informed decisions that improve employee and machine safety.
Design services
Comprehensive circuit design, proper application of devices and design review to improve overall safety.
