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[2/10/10]
Safe Motion Seminar Offers New Insights into
Machine Safety
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The Safe Motion Seminar will focus on how to increase worker protection and productivity with drive-based safety.
(Burlington, Ontario – Canada – www.boschrexroth.ca) To help industries meet the ongoing challenge of workplace safety and regulatory compliance, Bosch Rexroth Canada is offering a free Safe Motion Seminar on two occasions: March 30 and May 11, 2010. The seminar will demonstrate how worker safety can be greatly enhanced with drive-integrated machine safety functions.
The Safe Motion Seminar demonstrates technological and procedural machine safety concepts for control engineers, engineering managers, safety officers, maintenance supervisors, and machine designers. Particular emphasis is placed on applications such as machine tools, printing and converting, food and packaging, handling, metal forming and automated assembly, where protection of plant personnel against uncontrolled machine movements is crucial. In addition to addressing workplace safety, the Safe Motion approach can improve uptime and productivity by offering an alternative to traditional safety procedures such as simply turning machines off and locking out to perform maintenance and changeovers.
“Safe Motion aims at building safe operating procedures right into machines and operating processes themselves,” explains Safe Motion seminar presenter Allen Rutherford, Senior Applications Engineer at Bosch Rexroth. “Just turning off a machine and locking out for service or routine cell entry, and then turning it back on again, can be both unsafe and very inefficient.”
Safe Motion is built around integrating safety into the drives, using commercially available machine control products. This makes it easier for industries to improve workplace safety, ensure compliance, create comprehensive safety procedures, and even design or retrofit safer, more efficient machines. “This seminar will help everyone from floor supervisors to OEMs and machine designers view machine control in a new light,” Rutherford says.
For end users of moving machinery, the seminar offers productive ways to maximize workplace safety. For machine designers, the Safe Motion seminar presents new ideas for succeeding in a competitive market where safety and compliance are essential.
The Safe Motion seminar takes place between 9 AM and 2 PM, with breakfast and lunch included, and features slide and video presentations as well as live demonstrations of Safe Motion-equipped machines, including a 2-axis linear motion system demo with integrated Safety on Board technology that can be stopped and started without rebooting the machine. The seminar also provides an excellent introduction to Bosch Rexroth’s in-depth Safe Motion training sessions.
To learn more about the Bosch Rexroth 2010 Seminar Series, including dates and locations, and to register for the Safe Motion event, visit Bosch Rexroth Canada at www.boschrexroth.ca/seminars. Other seminar topics slated for 2010 include Plastic Machine Safety & Optimization Upgrades and Tier 4 Emission Fundamentals.
Bosch Rexroth Canada is the Canadian subsidiary of Bosch Rexroth AG, one of the world’s leading specialists in the field of drive and control technologies. Under the brand name of Rexroth the company supplies more than 500,000 customers with tailored solutions for driving, controlling and moving machinery used in industrial and factory automation as well as in mobile applications. Bosch Rexroth is a partner for industrial applications and factory automation, mobile applications and using renewable energies. As The Drive & Control Company, Bosch Rexroth develops, produces and sells components and systems in more than 80 countries. In 2008 Bosch Rexroth AG, part of the Bosch Group, achieved sales of around 5.9 billion Euro with 35,300 employees.
For more information please visit: www.boschrexroth.ca
Company Information:
Bosch Rexroth Canada
Ontario, CANADA
www.boschrexroth.ca
info@boschrexroth.ca
(Magazine Note) Please send any Bosch Rexroth reader inquiries to:
Karen Park
Bosch Rexroth Canada
3426 Mainway Drive
Burlington, ON
Canada L7M 1A8
Telephone (905) 335-5511 x332
Fax (905) 335 4184
karen.park@boschrexroth.ca
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