High Degree of Flexibility and Safety with SafetyBridge Technology
20/04/2011 Phoenix Contact Ltd
The new safety system from Phoenix Contact with SafetyBridge technology operates independently of safety bus systems such as Interbus Safety and Profisafe and does not require a safety control in the network. The safety logic operations are directly processed in the intelligent safety output module. The safety modules can be operated at any location, distributed in the particular network, in an I/O station of the Inline automation system.With the comprehensive configuration options, the eight input or eight output channels can be flexibly adapted to the particular application. Data transfer via the network from the safety input module to the output module is secured using a special protocol, which is driven from the intelligent output module.
The standard control only has to copy non-safety I/O data bi-directionally between the input and output modules. As a consequence, the control does not handle any safety-oriented tasks.
Configuring the safety input and output channels and generating the safety logic is realised in a user-friendly fashion with the Safeconf software and does not require any programming experience. Pre-configured function blocks are available for almost any application.
For further information, please contact Becky Smith at Phoenix Contact Ltd, Halesfield 13, Telford, TF7 4PG. Tel: 01952 681756. Fax: 01952 681799 E mail bsmith@phoenixcontact.com www.phoenixcontact.co.uk
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