Enhancing Operational Safety: How to Install Efficient Safety Light Curtains on Slitter Rewinder Machine
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- Aug 8,2024
Summary
DADISICK's safety light curtains are widely used in various industrial fields, including machine tools, automated production lines, conveying equipment, and robotics. In high-risk operations such as stamping, forging, and shearing, safety light curtains effectively protect workers and prevent mechanical equipment accidents. Additionally, they can be integrated with other safety devices to provide more flexible and comprehensive safety protection measures.
The Importance of Slitting Laminating Machines in Industrial Production
Increase Production Efficiency: Slitting laminating machines use automation to quickly complete the processes of slitting and laminating materials, reducing the need for manual intervention and significantly boosting production speed and efficiency.
Ensure Product Quality: These machines provide high-precision operation, ensuring that each product's dimensions and shapes are consistent, thereby enhancing overall product quality and market competitiveness.
Adapt to Diverse Production Needs: Slitting laminating machines are multifunctional, capable of handling various materials and specifications, meeting personalized and customized production requirements, and flexibly responding to market changes.
Reduce Production Costs: High-precision operations minimize material waste, improve equipment utilization, lower production costs, and achieve effective resource use.
Enhance Production Safety: These machines are often equipped with comprehensive safety protection mechanisms, reducing safety risks from human errors and providing a safer production environment for operators.
Although automation equipment can significantly enhance production efficiency and reduce human error, it does not automatically guarantee safety. Despite reducing human intervention, complex production environments and processes can still introduce new safety challenges, which need to be comprehensively addressed and managed. Installing safety light curtains on slitting laminating machines is an effective protective measure to improve safety.
What Are the Operational Risks of Slitting Laminating Machines?
Mechanical Injuries: Slitting laminating machines involve high-speed rotating shafts, blades, or other mechanical components during operation. Improper handling or equipment malfunction can easily lead to cutting, impact, or pinching injuries.
High-Temperature Hazards: Some slitting laminating machines generate high temperatures during operation, such as heating elements used for thermal lamination. Improper handling or malfunctioning heating elements can result in burns or fires.
Material Jamming: During slitting or lamination, material jamming can occur, causing equipment blockage or damage. It is crucial to ensure that the machine is completely stopped before performing regular checks and cleaning.
How to Install Efficient Safety Light Curtains on Slitter Rewinder Machine
Solution:
By combining multi-beam safety devices or safety light curtains with deflection mirrors, a single set of sensors can protect multiple sides of a machine, significantly reducing wiring efforts.
The layout of safety light curtains and deflection mirrors depends on the type and specific requirements of the protection system needed. DADISICK’s QCE series safety light curtains and mirrors were installed at the four corners of the slitting laminating machine, successfully covering the machine's three main sides. Compared to traditional mechanical fences, this safety light curtain system makes feeding operations, tool changes, and program adjustments more flexible and convenient, thereby improving overall production efficiency.
Installation Type of a Safety Light Curtain Set with Deflection Mirrors
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✅ Comprehensive self-diagnosis feature ensures that no erroneous signals are sent to controlled devices in the event of a sensor malfunction.
✅ Strong anti-interference capability effectively shields against 99% of interference signals, including electromagnetic interference, strobe lights, and welding arcs.
✅ Easy installation and commissioning with simple wiring.
✅ Compact dimensions of 30 mm * 30 mm, with the safety light curtain connecting to the cable (M12) via an aviation connector.
✅ Superior vibration resistance through surface-mount technology (SMT).
✅ Ultra-fast response time, with a maximum response time of no more than 15 ms.
✅ Capable of effectively detecting opaque objects (larger than the resolution) passing through the light curtain area, widely used in over 80% of equipment such as presses, hydraulic presses, shearing machines, automatic doors, and other hazardous environments.
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