SICK has released the miniTwin for monitoring with minimum safety distances and no blind zones.
The supplier says that it has, for the first time, combined the elements of a transmitter and receiver in a miniature housing stick.
The fact that the stand-alone and host/guest versions are identical is also new.
Sick says that the miniTwin safety light curtain has been designed for tasks in which a mining machine’s risk analysis demands the greatest possible level of protection, i.e.
Performance Level pl ”e” according to EN ISO 13849-1, or alternatively SIL3 in compliance with IEC 61508 or the sector standard EN 62061.It offers resolutions of 14 mm, 24 mm and 34 mm — also in corner applications.
The protective field heights that can be achieved with the miniTwin lie between 120 mm and 1,200 mm.
Sick says that the housing size increments of 60 mm offer optimum adaptation of the protective fields to the particular machine conditions. The device has a range of 0 - 4 m.