How can this be? How could machine safety be more simple and easy than hard wiring 50 or 100 relays back to a machine control system? We’ve been doing it this way for over 30 years and our machine up time is above average at 68%!

How many of us have heard this story? We’ll, the safety landscape has changed! Industry has new options for safety compliance that are permitted by regulations. Companies can now ask themselves:

1.      Is the wiring still accurate for those 100 relays after 35 engineering changes?

2.      Are those relay jumpers for engineering changes or defective relay contacts?

3.      Is my safety compliance active or jumpered out of operation?

4.      Can I eliminate downtime caused by intermittent relays without diagnostics?

5.      Is an improvement to 90% machine up time really feasible?

6.      Can I eliminate 1500 lineal feet of conduit and 18,000 feet of home run wiring?

7.      Where’s Frank? He installed this system in 1972 and knows everything!

Wake up and smell the roses for gosh sakes! Frank retired in 2004 and hoola hoops are history. Today – trade journals are packed each month with articles supporting the changing landscape of machine safety. And, the industry regulations support these changes. How better can it get in these competitive times? Do you have a better idea? What’s holding you back?