Product category:
Machinery/plant guarding and protection
News Release from: Omron Scientific Technologies | Subject: LCM Series light curtain system Controller
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 12 June 2002
Mount safety light curtains closer to
machinery
Ultra-fast controller response time combined with 12mm resolution allows a safety light curtain system to be mounted closer to machinery pinch points.
Scientific Technologies has introduced the LCM Series Controller designed for use with their MC4700 and MS4700 Series safety light curtains Ultra-fast response time combined with the 12mm resolution of the 4700 series safety light curtain allows the safety light curtain system to be mounted closer to machinery pinch points, resulting in increased productivity
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 21 May 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Additional features include: three user-selectable operating modes (Automatic Start, Start/Restart Interlock, and Start Interlock); MPCE monitoring; remote reset; Exact Channel Select; Floating Blanking; 100 mm DIN enclosure with removable terminal blocks; and two auxiliary outputs with follow mode or alarm mode.
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An optional "Multiple Channel Select" version enables eight patterns of masked beams to be stored and recalled as needed.
This feature allows for a quick setup change when material of different sizes needs to be inserted in to the protected area.
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 "world1s best small companies." STI1s 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.
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