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Safety relays, interlocks, control systems, electrical components
News Release from: Fortress Interlocks | Subject: XM modular mechanical key exchange unit
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 23 May 2003
Key unit protects against danegerous
machinery
A modular mechanical key exchange unit allows a number of secondary functions following an initial action, such as the simultaneous opening of several guard doors, after power is isolated.
Fortress Interlocks has launched XM (exchange module), a modular mechanical key exchange unit used to exchange one or more keys for a number of other keys Part of an interlock system protecting employees working with dangerous machinery, the unit forms the link between isolation devices and access locks
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 27 Aug 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Any combination of isolation/access keys is possible.
XM allows a number of secondary functions following an initial action, such as the simultaneous opening of several guard doors around a machine enclosure once the power supply to the machine has been isolated.
Keys used to gain access are mechanically trapped until other keys from the isolation points are inserted and turned.
Only when all isolation keys are inserted can an access key be removed.
Removing the access keys mechanically traps the isolation keys in place.
In conjunction with the XM, Fortress has launched DM (door module), a robust modular access interlock suitable for use on all types of doors.
The unit is sold as a single or multiple door interlock with up to ten multiple access locks available.
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