Safety Roadshow a success on tour in over 20 German cities

Visitors to the Safety Roadshow were able to learn quite a bit about the subject of safety, for example regarding 2006/42/EC machine guidelines that have been valid since the end of 2009 and the open safety protocol openSAFETY. Guests were also treated to a comprehensive look at safety technology in the form of actual customer applications. These real-world applications impressed audiences and demonstrated some of the practical applications of safety technology - one example of this was the configuration of a printing machine. B&R's Smart Safe Reaction technology allows machine manufacturers to first build their standard modules and corresponding control cabinet and then to configure them - along with the safety technology - on a computer screen to handle their respective tasks after commissioning has been successfully completed. The time this saves for programming, configuring, delivering and commissioning the machine is more than considerable.

B&R technology is also being successfully implemented in the area of press manufacturing. Here, the integrated Smart Safe Reaction safety concept and integrated Safe Motion Control drive technology accelerate the entire set-up process, making it possible for machine builders to develop more flexible and energy-saving alternatives. Sandhfner says: "With demonstrations from these and other industries - packaging, textile engineering or metalworking, for example - B&R continues to prove their ability to innovate in all areas of machine manufacturing."

The Safety Roadshow highlighted the advantages of this type of technology over conventional approaches. B&R's safety systems not only exhibit faster response times, reduce engineering and wiring effort to a minimum and increase system availability, they also reduce costs throughout an entire project while ensuring effective service.

For more information about B&R's safety systems, please visit www.br-automation.com.