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MACHINERY SAFETY...

Configure a tailored safety

relay with myPNOZ Creator

Modular safety relay myPNOZ is
the world’s first batch size 1 safety
relay: “My Safety” for automation

f you want a safety relay that’s
precisely tailored to your application,
you can now take advantage of
ImyPNOZ from Pilz. With the intuitive
online tool myPNOZ Creator, you can
assemble your myPNOZ relay, and it’s
delivered pre-assembled, set up and tested and so safety gate using logic AND/OR connections. The
is a completely individualised system, ready to online tool myPNOZ Creator uses a symbol to
install. No programming knowledge is required to indicate any logic errors in the safety function
use myPNOZ Creator, as the logic links for the sequence. Users can add any further safety
safety functions are defined on myPNOZ via the functions at will and also define details – such as
modules that are selected and the sequence in delay-on energisation and delay-on de-energisation
which they are plugged in. for example. Users can check immediately whether
The myPNOZ safety relay monitors safety a circuit or safety design meets their own
functions such as E-STOP, safety gates, light requirements in the myPNOZ Creator, using the
curtains, two-hand controls IIIA/C and enabling simulation in the online tool. As a result, errors can
switches. It consists of a head module with up to a be reduced and commissioning accelerated.
maximum of eight expansion modules, which can Pilz says that myPNOZ represents an efficient,
be freely combined. safe solution for mechanical engineering. What’s
In the corresponding online tool myPNOZ more the safety relay can be used in various
Creator you can assemble a needs-based safety industries. Users benefit with safety applications of
solution from a wide range of options. Users can simple to average complexity, when two to a
switch between a logic view and a hardware view. maximum of 16 safe input functions are to be
The option for visualisation and extensive monitored, without using engineering software. The
documentation is also available via simulation. official launch event is on 3 February. Follow the
Depending on the safety requirement, users link to register for the event.
interconnect safety functions such as E-STOP or www.pilz.com/en-INT/launch-event

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