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SAFETY...
Seven key steps to scanner
success in safety applications
Believe it or not, the laser scanner is 50-years-old. Sick invented the very first laser
scanner and the technology has certainly advanced significantly since those early
days, having an impact in particular on safety. Dr Martin Kidman of Sick UK looks at
some of the developments, and details seven steps to a successful safety installation.
he laser scanner has led a quiet revolution maximum productivity and reduced stoppages e.g.
in machinery safety because scanners by enabling a machine to slow down safely but keep
reach the parts that other safety measures operating when a person enters an outer protective
Tsuch as conventional fences and gates, field. The safety laser scanner is a hugely versatile
safety mats or light curtains can’t, while allowing for device that enables a rapid response to changing
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