Category: Control Functions

This cat­egory dis­cusses vari­ous aspects of con­trol func­tions.

Events

Five reasons you should attend our Free Safety Talks

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Banner for the Free Safety Talks

Reas­on #1 – Free Safety Talks You can’t argue with Free Stuff! Last week we partnered with Schmersal Canada and Frank­lin Empire to put on three days of Free Safety Talks. We had full houses in all three loc­a­tions, Wind­sor, Lon­don and Cam­bridge, with nearly 60 people par­ti­cip­at­ing. We had two great presenters who helped […]

Emergency Stop

Emergency Stop Failures

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This entry is part 13 of 14 in the series Emer­gency Stop

I am always look­ing for inter­est­ing examples of machinery safety prob­lems to share on MS101. Recently I was scrolling Reddit/r/OSHA and found these three real-world examples. Broken Emer­gency Stop But­tons The first and most obvi­ous kinds of fail­ures are those res­ult­ing from either wear out or dam­age to emer­gency stop devices like e-stop but­tons or pull […]

Canada

Safe Drive Control including Safe Torque Off (STO)

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Graph illustrating STO Function
This entry is part 12 of 14 in the series Emer­gency Stop

Ed. Note: This art­icle was revised 25-Jul-17 to include inform­a­tion on safe stand­still. Safe Drive Con­trol includ­ing STO Motor drives are every­where. From DC vari­able speed drives and index­ing drives, through AC Vari­able Fre­quency drives, servo drives and step­per motor drives, the cap­ab­il­it­ies and the flex­ib­il­ity of these elec­tron­ic sys­tems has giv­en machine design­ers unpre­ced­en­ted […]