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    6 safety devices to protect operators, equipment and processes

    Eric J. Halvorson
    Safety first: Enhancing workplace safety in manufacturing environments
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    AGR’s take on derisking: what works and what doesn’t

    Arthur G. Russell's focus on adaptability and lifecycle support aligns with the needs of modern manufacturing
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    How machines stop in emergency situations

    Tobey Strauch
    Safety configurations for Category 0, Category 1 and Category 2 stops
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    Safety-circuit upgrades present design challenges

    Rick Rice
    More open and flexible safety components can make for easier integration
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    E-stop devices can take many forms

    Anna Townshend
    Know your standards, when it comes to emergency stops, and find the right button for the application
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    What are the different acceptable types of e-stop devices?

    Anna Townshend
    Guidelines inform requirements for design, and the application-specific environment plays a role
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    The fine art of the emergency stop

    Jeremy Pollard
    Why the e-stop button needs to be reliable and swift
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    Intrinsic Safety

    How intrinsic safety aims to protect low-energy systems or signals from sensors, actuators and associated control signals for use in hazardous locations

    Ryan Brownlee
    Design equipment using entity parameters to guide combinations of intrinsically safe apparatus and associated apparatus to form intrinsically safe circuits
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    What is an emergency stop?

    Anna Townshend
    E-stop features, locations and best practices in industrial safety
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    I/O

    Open season on automation

    Rick Rice
    Supply-chain shortages have taught us to embrace interoperability
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    Functional-safety requirements dictate conveyor systems

    Pam Horbacovsky Klancewicz
    From pinch point guarding to training: key methods for ensuring conveyor safety
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    Presence Sensing

    How AMRs and AGVs collaborate with humans

    Anna Townshend
    New robotics standards and the specific application with guide design and deployment
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    Safety in engineering and operations

    Steve Ellis
    The importance of training workers for machine operation