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News Release from: Omron Scientific Technologies | Subject: LCM-3 Safety Light Curtain Controller
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 13 May 2002
Controller suits power press light
curtain use
Safety light curtain controller is ideal for applications where a variety of materials are inserted through the protected field of the light curtain, such as press operations.
Scientific Technologies introduces the LCM-3 Safety Light Curtain Controller The LCM-3 features a multi-programmable channel select function
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 21 May 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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This allows up to eight different channel select patterns to be selected and stored using an eight position binary switch.
This function can be controlled with a PLC.
The LCM-3 is ideal for applications where a variety of materials are inserted through the protected filed of the light curtain, such as press operations and post-extrusion processing.
Features include two PNP solid state safety outputs; two auxiliary outputs; MPCE monitoring for control reliability; a two-digit numeric display for fault diagnostics; exact and programmable Channel Select; and one and two channel Floating Blanking.
The LCM-3 also offers Automatic Start, Start/Restart Interlock, and Start Interlock selectable modes.
With headquarters in the heart of Silicon Valley, STI was founded nearly 30 years ago and employs more than 350 people.
STI has been selected twice by Forbes and three times by Business Week as one of the "world's best small companies." STI's safety products are used to protect workers around machinery, automated equipment and industrial robots.
Their products serve a wide variety of applications and markets, including semiconductor, automotive, electronics manufacturing, packaging and consumer markets.
(This was Manufacturingtalk's Top Story on 9 May 2002).
(This was Manufacturingtalk's Top Story on 9 May 2002).
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