Machine Guarding Solutions
Modular Machine Enclosures
Point of operation equipment guarding custom designed with t-slotted extrusion framing, wire mesh and/or polycarbonate panels and doors, including safety switches, to mitigate hazards for operators and maintenance personnel.
Machine Perimeter Guarding - For bollard corner guard protection
Safety fencing designed with black wire mesh and hi-vis yellow posts to keep operators from machine hazards. Large access doors can be added with electronic safety devices for PIT and crane traffic.
Robotic Safety Guarding
Single or multi-configured robotic workcells designed with steel, t-slot, or a hybrid based on custom layout requirements preventing interaction between the human and robot. Presence sensing devices can be added.
Industrial Sound Enclosures
Custom designed from t-slotted aluminum and black ABS panels. These systems include dual-membrane noise dampening materials, temperature controls, ventilation, and lighting to help mitigate hearing conservation concerns.
Air Pollution Safety Enclosure
Semi-sealed enclosures designed to desired cubic volume in accordance of required fume stack testing. We can assist partnering you with an environmental testing facility when looking for EPA approvals.
Machine Guarding for Consumer Goods
Designed and fabricated for dry or wet processing with washdown or sanitary schedules. Made from 304/316 SS with viewing slots, 360-degree passivated welds, laser etched part IDs, fastened with hygienic screws, IP69k e-safety devices.
Hazardous Chemical Containment Enclosures
Modular safety enclosures designed and built using stainless steel framing and hardware, along with black ABS and polycarbonate panels to contain hazardous chemicals, minimizing human exposure to health risks.
Adjustable Press Guarding
Configured for the infeed and outfeed of material requirements on stamping and forming presses. A modular system combining t-slot aluminum with "U" shaped adjustable rods spaced based on reachability for modularity.
Shear Finger Guard
Hi-Strength, round bar style finger guard protecting workers from cut, shear, and crush hazards when operating a shear. Custom made to bolt on a variety of models with various lengths, heights, and colors.
Fabricated Metal Safety Guards
Point guarding for exposed hazards such as cut, pinch, crush, and shear hazards in tight locations. Typical material used is formed sheet metal, welded and/or bolted, with wire mesh or expanded metal, powder coated black or safety yellow.
Electronic Safety Device Options
Safety Light Curtains
Presence sensing devices used to create a virtual barrier around a hazard. Designed for standard, blanking, or muting operations using safety controllers to provide proper safety redundancy checking. Stop time distance service available
Safety Laser Scanners
Low-profile programmable presence sensing safety unit used with a safety relay for redundancy, scanning a 190-degree radius to detect foot traffic located in hazardous areas, blind spots, or danger zones.
Safety Switches (Non-Contact RFID)
Tamper-resistant, non-contact switch integrated through a safety relay to assist in achieving proper category levels. Typical applications tied to emergency stops or signal machine cut-offs with dynamic braking functions.
Door Locking Safety System
System engineered to keep the door closed until the machine is at a safe stop state achieved thru a feedback signal to an EMF relay, a programmable timer circuit, or a safety-encoder to detect zero-speed.
Safety Mats and Edgeguards
Custom sizes with trim kits, wiring, and safety controller specific to each application providing proper access protection to workers with a physical presence to alert operational zones while preventing leaning or reaching.
Trapped-Key Safety Interlock System
A system using a single control key along with a group of mechanical keys requiring no field wiring beyond the control panel. Configurations to include single operator access to multi-user key exchange panels and deadbolt latches.
Speed Monitoring Safety System
Monitor the speed of your machine through the use of EMF relays, timer-based countdown circuits, and safety-encoders to prevent injury keeping operators outside the hazardous conditions until control release has been given.
PowerControls Safety Enclosure
Isolated safety enclosure with the required safety relays or safety controllers, power supplies, reset switches, and any other safety devices required to power and control the added safety circuit.
Multi-Safety Switch Door Controls
Design and build a custom safety enclosure with 1:1 switch to safety relay, safety controller, or safety PLC functions with auxiliary outputs to monitor the state of the safety devices at each entry point of the machine guarding.
Process Equipment Safety Solutions
Safety Enclosures for Web Converting Equipment
Designed and built to custom fit film slitters, doctors, rewinders, turret unwinders and rewinders, continuous winders, duplex slitters with rewinders, flame laminators, and cold nip roll coater.
Machine Enclosures for Bottling and Canning Equipment
Consisting of intrinsically safe guarding packages for explosion-proof applications with an understanding of the hazard zones including low voltage switches, safety barriers, and special cabling & conduit.
Press Safety Solutions
Solutions to include die blocks, power cutoffs, wedges, physical machine guarding, safety laser scanners, safety light curtain systems (floating blanking options), and control system upgrades.
Upender Lifting Safety System
Units such as dumpers, hoppers and tippers to be guarding preventing operator injuries through use of safety laser scanners, photos eyes, hydraulic safety valves, and safety fencing.
Steel Processing Equipment
Machines to include payoffs or uncoilers, take-ups or recoilers, forming and sizing tube mills, h-coils or accumulators, and coil slitters using safety fencing, laser scanners, and safety mats to mitigate hazardous conditions.
Safety Guarding for Material Handling Equipment
Palletizing systems, wrapping machines, dumpers & tippers, and conveyors present risks such as pinch, crush, wrap, and cut points, as well as trip hazards, and are guarded with physical guards and presence sensing devices.
Coil Car Safety
Steel production transportation hazards such as crush and nip points, as well as trip can be minimized through the use of stack indicator lights, safety mats, and safety laser scanners, while still leaving access for PITs and overhead cranes.
Plate Roller Safety
Machine safety package to include custom designed safety mats surrounding the rollers monitored by a safety controller and a pedestal-style 2-hand operator control stand to activate rollers.
Integrated Machine Safety Controls
Intrinsically Safe Machine Guarding Systems
Custom machine guarding enclosures designed with specific low voltage safety switches routing to required safety barriers and safety relays, using the proper wiring and conduit for the environment.
Vertical Safety Doors
Space-saving, 2-hand controlled vertical door preventing a pinch point, actuated with a double acting cylinder using a PO check valve to minimize gravitational drift. Options such as rod locks, proximity sensors, and safety valves can be added.
Pneumatic Energy Control
Filter and regulator air preparation unit with a safety redundant exhaust valve, equipped with a lockout / tagout (LOTO) module, commonly used on port sizes of 1/4" and 3/8" NPT. Other sizes available is required.
Emergency Stop Devices
Wired emergency stop devices such as push button with boxes, push buttons integrated into control panels, and rope pull devices, all with the required labeling and hardware to provide the required quick stop action to a machine function.
Wireless Emergency Stop
Use a wireless emergency stop when moving in a long run where e-stop buttons are too far away. These safety-rated devices hop frequencies to avoid bandwidth interference while communicating with a control module located at our custom enclosure.
Grip Enabling (Deadman) Switch
A handheld device or joystick, used for an operator to perform a machine function at a jog speed. If trigger is not continuously held in place while safeties are bypassed, the machine will emergency stop all functions.
CNC Port Spin Windows
Improve visibility of your machining environment by removing coolant and chips from a viewing area of your access door, boosting productivity, and reducing machine downtime in the process.
Camera Monitoring System
Implementation of a non-safety rated visual verification of personnel traffic in hazardous blind spots, as well as part visuals eliminating the need for operating access during machining operations.
Machine Tool Safety Guards
Manual and CNC Lathes
Chuck guards with safety switches and lathe guards without safety switches due to primary and secondary operations to prevent cuts from sharp metal curling, pull-in hazards, and oil spraying at operators.
Manual Mills and CNC Bed Mills
Modular machine guarding used to prevent hot flying chips, hazards, and coolant from spraying out. Designed with or without safety switches based on manual operation.
Radial Arm Drills and Drill Presses
Universal guards keeping metal shavings from the operator, minimize cut hazards at cutting tools, and spraying of coolants. Safety switch options based type of machining and fixturing required.
Steel Ejection Mesh Curtain
Ballistic curtain for shop press used to guard against material ejection while still providing visibility of operation. Split-curtain rod front and back for optimized protection when pressing protruding parts.
Bench Grinders and Buffers
Machine shields used to prevent flying debris from operators face and eyes. The deflectors angle the material ejection downward and helps manage widespread mess as well.
Belt and/or Disc Sander
Single use or combination machines in a variety of belt and disc sizes require protection covering the unused areas of the sanding surface when performing secondary finishing operations.
Vertical Bandsaws (Shop)
Adjustable shield in multiple directions with polycarbonate panel for clear view to part to prevent from accidental contact with the saw blade. Hi-vis orange without a safety switch due to variety of product shapes.
Vertical Bandsaws (Production)
Large vertical bandsaw integrated with safety light curtains at point of operation and machine guarding around sides and back while still giving access to the chip tray and blade changes without interrupting the hydraulics.
Horizontal Bandsaws (Shop)
Hinged machine guards with polycarbonate panel for clear view to part to prevent from accidental contact with the saw blade. Hi-vis yellow with a safety switch to keep operators from access to blade during cutting operations.
Surface Grinders
Safety enclosures to prevent nip points, cuts, and burns found with these manual machine tools due to common interaction between operator's hands, grinding wheel, magnetic base, and adjustment wheel.
Power Transmission Covers and Shields
End Shaft Bearing Covers
Commonly found on one or both sides of powered conveyors may present protruding shafts with keyways or burred edges creating a cut or wrap point and can be mitigated by these covers.
Pillow Block Covers
Pillow block bearings are typically used on jib cranes, industrial fans, and rolling mills where pull-in and wrapping hazards are exposed, which can be eliminated with these covers.
Transfer Pump and Coupling Covers
Chemicals such as oil, coolants, and hydraulic fluid can be found in tank farms through the use of transfer pumps for filling, transferring, and emptying presenting pinch, shear, and crush points.
Chain and Belt Covers
Drive, roller, and conveyor chain along with v-belts, timing and serpentine belts used to drive systems need to be covered due hazards presented through constant motion at high-speeds.
Split Shaft Covers
Large bearings, sprocket hubs, and drive shafts are unable to be easily removed but still are required to be covered to eliminate risk of injury using split shaft cover guards.
Conveyor Covers
Conveyor covers used to cover moving parts such as drive components over long spans of a conveyor spans in a straight or curved configuration to prevent pull-in or trapped hazard exposure.
Take-up Bearing Covers
Take-up bearings with adjustment mechanism exposed presents rotating hazards which can be covered while still allowing for full rotation of bearings within a given system.
Control Reliability for Functional Safety
Circuit Verification Services
Control Engineering to provide circuit verification through analysis of machine controls for the proper functional safety to meet required control reliability PL (performance level) ratings.
Control Technology
Control Technology to specify and supply safety-rated output devices such as motor contactors, safety valves, drive motors, and servos specific to your machine needs while meeting your control requirements.
Control Upgrades
Have our Controls Engineers and Automation Engineers upgrade your machine controls and output devices to your desired and/or required control reliability safety standards discovered in your risk assessment or circuit verification.
Validation and Schematics
Our Engineers can perform a review of your upgraded machine control system to validate the new PL rating, as well as produce new electrical and fluid power schematics of your new safety circuit.