Ensuring safe loads with the SMS Safety Muting System

Before loading, pallets are secured in order to ensure that goods remain on their pallets during transport - e.g. by horizontal binders from the Swiss company Peter Born AG. The SMS Safety Muting System and an MSLZ multibeam safety photoelectric switch with an integrated muting function ensure maximum safety and smooth integration in automatic transport systems.

>> The bornbinder® horizontal binder only needs a few seconds to fully automatically tie a pallet up. This speed, and the binding power involved, pose a risk of serious injury for persons reaching into the plant during running operation. At the same time, many users (e.g. in bottle filling) depend on automatic and continuous plant processes. In order to be able to safeguard a horizontal binder and simultaneously integrate it into a stationary conveyor system it is necessary to set up access safeguarding with a muting function at both the pallet entrance and exit. An SMS Safety Muting System was used on a plant from Peter Born AG delivered to a Belgrade brewery by a filling machine manufacturer.

Plug & play muting

The SMS mounting components allow rapid installation and flexible muting. The Safety Category 2 or 4 optoelectronic muting sensors, and the muting indicator lights, offer application-specific configuration. The MSLZ multibeam safety photoelectric switch with an integrated MSM muting module, and WL 23 series muting sensors, were used with the SMS at the brewery plant. All components can be flexibly mounted on site on a stable, height-adjustable supporting framework and completely wired up. Time-saving, and thus cost-cutting installation, adjustment and commissioning is thus possible. Instead of numerous individual components from a variety of suppliers, users obtain a muting system, designed to meet their needs, from a single source.

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