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Machinery safety in automation technology

You may well have realised that even the best components leave you with uncertainty if it is not clear how to design and operate the machine safely and correctly. This may be, for example, because there are no application notes. Or because important figures are missing from the datasheet. That is why we provide advice and help you to implement your machine safely, with minimal effort and in line with the EC Machinery Directive, regardless of whether you choose pneumatic or electric drive technology.

Tools

  • You can find all the safety-related characteristic values for our products in a VDMA database for the SISTEMA calculation tool.
  • All the relevant characteristic values are provided in the datasheet for product reliability in the catalogue.
  • Software and sizing tools help you with product selection.

Design tools

Standards and guidelines

  • Our products are developed, tested and certified in accordance with the relevant standards.
  • Technical reports help you to implement the safety functions in accordance with the standards.
  • We are closely involved in the further development of standards. You, too, can benefit from this.

Further information about standards and regulations

Customer-specific system solutions

  • We work with you to develop custom solutions for safety-related applications.
  • This of course includes the safety-relevant documentation.

Training

  • With Festo Didactic, we offer a global range of seminars and online training courses relating to safety so that we can help you to master the topic of safety engineering.
  • We can also visit your site to provide advice about your machine.

Services

  • Our safety engineering specialists around the world will help you to select the right products and safety functions.
  • We can test all the functions for your application in our 26 application centres worldwide.

Products

  • Products for machine safety for all areas of automation from a single source
  • Our safety devices are certified according to all the current standards and thus reduce the design time.
  • All characteristic values for standard products are also available online.
  • Quick and easy calculation of the risk reduction

Certifications

  • SIL certificates from notified bodies
  • SIL manufacturer’s declarations available for numerous products and systems

Customer-specific system solutions

  • We work with you to develop custom solutions for safety-related applications.
  • This of course includes the safety-relevant documentation.

Training

With Festo Didactic, we offer a global range of seminars and online training courses relating to safety so that we can help you to master the topic of safety engineering.

Services

Our safety engineering specialists around the world will help you to select the right products for safety-related circuits.

Products

  • Type tests according to NE 95 for SIL-certified products
  • Tried-and-tested products for safety-related applications in the low-demand and high-demand area
  • All safety-related product data is available online for a quick and easy calculation of the risk reduction.

We help you to achieve a safe machine in factory automation and a safe system in the process industry.

How? Take a look at our guidelines for machine and system safety. Here you’ll find not only comprehensive information about the fundamental standards, risk assessment and risk reduction, but also detailed overviews of all safety functions with the right products to integrate these functions in your system.

The guidelines also include an overview of all the seminars offered by Festo Training and Consulting for safety engineering qualifications.

Interested?

Find out more in the guidelines for machine and system safety (PDF)

Other useful downloads

External links

Raising awareness of machine and system safety

Risk assessment and machine safety concerns more people that you might expect. It certainly wouldn’t hurt to share this link.