Safe at every turn
According to Pilz, the company is presenting a world first in Nuremberg this year - a "smart" safety mat. Also new: a safety PLC in IP67.
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According to Pilz, the company is presenting a world first in Nuremberg this year - a "smart" safety mat. Also new: a safety PLC in IP67.

Safety and the cloud - what may initially sound like a contradiction in terms was a key trade fair topic for Schmersal at SPS IPC Drives 2017. What exactly is behind it?
Machine and system manufacturers are increasingly turning to mapping safety functions via the communication bus. How can integration on the component side be achieved with reasonable effort?

With Safety over IO-Link, Balluff provides system manufacturers with an easy-to-integrate safety solution based on IO-Link and Profisafe.
Industry 4.0 is driven by the vision that systems should adapt quickly and dynamically to the requirements of changing production. This places completely new demands on functional safety.
The 'Forum Safety & Security' will once again take place in Munich on July 5 and 6. Experts from both disciplines will discuss current issues and solutions in the field of safe automation at the congress and accompanying trade exhibition.

Pilz exceeded the 300 million euro sales mark for the first time in 2016. 2017 is characterized by a generational change: At the end of the year, Renate Pilz will hand over the operational business completely into the hands of her children Susanne Kunschert and Thomas Pilz.
For the first time this year, Pilz gave all visitors to the SPS IPC Drives trade fair in Nuremberg a glimpse of the innovations of the coming years - we also took a look around!

Cooperation or collaboration between humans and robots - HRC for short - is currently a hype topic. But how can it be implemented economically? The first 'Human Robot Forum' in Stuttgart provided answers to this question.
The new name says it all: because security is also becoming crucial for functional safety in view of increasing networking, WEKA Fachmedien has developed its successful 'Forum Functional Safety' into the 'Forum Safety & Security'.