Light Curtain Safety Devices | Allen-Bradley | US
Safety light curtains are photoelectric presence sensors specifically designed to protect personnel from injuries related to hazardous machine motion. Light curtains offer optimal safety, yet they allow for greater productivity and are the more ergonomically sound solution when compared to mechanical guards.
450L GuardShield POC Safety Light Curtains - Rockwell Automation
Our Bulletin 450L GuardShield™ POC safety light curtains are unlike traditional safety light curtains, which are based on separate transmitter and receiver units. Patented technology allows each transceiver to be used as a transmitter or receiver via an innovative plug-in module.
450L GuardShield PAC Safety Light Curtains - Rockwell Automation
Our 450L GuardShield™ PAC Safety Light Curtains help protect personnel from hazardous machinery. These light curtains are designed for whole-body detection and are typically positioned around an area or in front of a machine process entry or exit area that poses a moderate to high risk of operator injury. Our GuardShield safety light curtains ...
The 450L GuardShieldTM safety light curtain family is designed for use on hazardous machinery for Point of Operation Control (POC).
Provides product-specific guidelines for installing the Rockwell Automation® 450L-B and 450L-E safety light curtain system. 450L GuardShield Safety Light Curtain Quick Start, publication. 450L-QS001. Provides a summary of the basic steps that are required to configure and run a system using 450L light curtains.
The GuardShield Type 2 safety light curtain can be used in safety applications in which a risk analysis according to ANSI Z590.3, Z690.3, ISO 14121 and ISO 12100 have reached PLC in a safety Category 2 (EN ISO 13849-1) or SIL 1 (EN 62061).
440L Guardshield POC Type 4 Safety Light Curtains
Our Bulletin 440L Guardshield™ POC Type 4 safety light curtains are applied in applications where a formal risk assessment has determined that the hazard poses a moderate to high risk of operator injury.
Designed to create a safety perimeter around a machine that does not require frequent interaction between personnel and the hazard during regular operation (i.e. for maintenance and troubleshooting), PAC light curtains provide large object pass-through sensing with detection ranges up to 70 meters.
When an object intrudes into the light curtain field-of-view, the E-stop is actuated, or a fault is detected in the monitoring circuit, the dual-input safety relay de-energizes the final control devices, in this case, a pair of 100S-C safety contactors. E-stops are …
Safety Light Curtains—Standard System. The Allen-Bradley Guardmaster GuardShield safety light curtains are ordered as pairs—transmitter and receiver—and shipped under one part number. After selecting the appropriate light curtain pair, ensure that required interfaces and accessories are ordered as well.