Safety Integrated - safety engineering for machines and plants

Manufacturers and operators of machines must fulfill numerous requirements: reducing costs, improving productivity, and ensuring the safety of machines.

The industrial safety technology from Siemens offers innovative, economical solutions for the functional safety of machinery.

Machine safety - compliance with directives

Before any machines or plant can be supplied or operated, they must meet the fundamental safety requirements of the EU Directives.

In order to ensure compliance with the European Machinery Directive, it is recommended that the suitably harmonized European standards EN 62061 or EN ISO 13849-1 should be applied. This gives manufacturers and operators legal certainty regarding compliance with both national regulations and the EC Directive.

The machine manufacturer uses the CE marking to document the compliance with all relevant directives and regulations in the free movement of goods. As the European directives are recognized worldwide, their use is of great help when exporting to other countries.

The aim of safety technology is therefore to allow people, machines and the environment to be protected and statutory safety requirements to be satisfied.

The quick and easy way to safe machinery

In addition to the statutory regulations governing the protection of people there are also economic reasons for avoiding personal injury and the resulting down times, and for protecting both machinery and equipment from damage.

Safety Integrated benefits machine manufacturers and plant operators in many ways:

• Lower costs for hardware, assembly and engineering
• Higher availability thanks to faster diagnostics and fewer down times

At the same time, using modular safety concepts allows them to modernize their plants more easily and at lower cost.

Smart controls ensure the functional safety of machinery

Our SIRIUS Safety Integrated controls are a central element of the Siemens Safety Integrated concept, based on Totally Integrated Automation. Ob sicheres Erfassen, Befehlen und Melden, Uberwachen und Auswerten oder Starten und sicher Abschalten – unsere sichere Schalttechnik SIRIUS Safety Integrated bietet wirtschaftliche Losungen fur die Sicherheit Ihrer Maschine oder Anlage.

Take the SIRIUS 3SK1 safety relays for example: They are modularly expandable, and can integrate compact motor starters such as the fail-safe SIRIUS 3RM1 very simply via the the rear panel device connector. Or the SIRIUS 3RK3 Modular Safety System: this provides a high degree of functionality as an autonomous safety control downstream of a standard control, and also makes smart safety solutions possible via AS-Interface.

The SIMOCODE pro modular motor management system combines all required protection, monitoring, safety and control functions for motor feeders. It can be connected to fail-safe controllers via PROFIBUS or PROFINET and shut down motors in emergency situations.

Control technology for safety solutions – SIRIUS Safety Integrated

SIRIUS Safety Integrated uses fail-safe communication via standard fieldbus systems, such as ASIsafe via AS-Interface and PROFIsafe via PROFIBUS and PROFINET, to solve even networked safety tasks of greater complexity. This opens the door to flexible safety solutions for compact machines or large-scale plants – naturally compliant with current standards up to SIL 3/PL e.

A particular highlight: the world's first integrated ASIsafe link to the distributed I/O level ensures even more consistency. With the SIMATIC AS-i F-Links, AS-i networks can be connected quite simply to safety controls via PROFIsafe via the SIMATIC ET 200SP.

Your partner for machine and plant safety

With Safety Integrated, Siemens has provided the smart answer
to constantly increasing requirements for the functional safety of a machine and for its cost-effectiveness and flexibility. Our comprehensive portfolio of safe controls, control technology and drive technology provides scalable solutions for precisely tailored safety concepts for protecting people, machines and the environment. Our products meet the current safety standards in the industry, including IEC, ISO, NFPA and UL.

As a partner for machine and plant safety, Siemens also supports users with examples of functions and up-to-date know-how concerning international standards and directives. In addition to the free TUV-approved Safety Evaluation Tool for evaluating safety functions in accordance with EN 62061 and EN ISO 13849-1, requirements-based training is available on CE marking, functional safety and risk assessment, and on our Safety Integrated Products.

For more information, see
http://www.siemens.com/safety-integrated.

SIRIUS Safety Integrated application manual see
http://support.automation.siemens.com/WW/view/en/81366718.