Panasonic Industrial Automation

Compact Safety Light Curtain

Panasonic offers their SF4 series safety light curtains from rugged to small

Image of Panasonic Compact Safety Light CurtainMachine safeguarding is a top priority in protecting factory workers and meeting OSHA standards. Panasonic offers a wide variety of machine safety products including light curtains, which incorporate a large multi-purpose indicator (orange) positioned around workers’ eye level. The indicator shows the presence of the light curtain, helping to prevent unintentional beam interruption. The indicator can be used in a variety of applications such as a muting indicator and work indicator.

Features and Benefits
  • Safety level Type 4, PLe, and SIL3
  • Finger and hand types available
  • Very fast version with down to 7 ms off time
  • Integrated muting function
  • Aluminum, aluminum / polycarbonate, and polycarbonate housing available
  • Operating range up to 9 m
  • IP67 degree of protection
Applications
  • Muting function for feeding machines
  • Table-top workstations
  • Guarding space around welding robots
Published: 2016-05-03