PILZ Safety light curtain PSENopt Alternatives & Competitors

The SFLA series safety light curtains are installed in potentially dangerous or hazardous areas to safeguard personnel from injury. The light curtains feature proven technology from Autonics area sensors and mapping sensors. The light curtains are built to meet internationally safety standards and regulations. Various detection models (finger/hand/hand-body detection) and safety functions are available for diverse applications. The dedicated software atLightCurtain allows real-time status monitoring user settings such as automatic muting/blanking area functions.

BANNER's EZ-SCREEN LS light curtains are a reliable and easy-to-use safety device designed for machine safeguarding in challenging manufacturing and packaging environments. With three resolutions available, ranging from 14 mm to 40 mm, and a range of up to 12 m, these light curtains provide end-to-end sensing with no blind zones. The aluminum housing and metal end caps protect each emitter and receiver against impacts, while highly visible alignment indicators and intuitive diagnostics make setup and troubleshooting a breeze.

The EZ-SCREEN LS system requires no PC software or DIP switches for quick and easy configuration. The dual scan technology ensures high immunity to EMI, RFI, ambient light, weld flash, and strobe light. The no blind zone design eliminates gaps in detection, while the system can cascade up to four systems of any length, resolution, and number of beams.

These light curtains are certified to Type 4 per IEC 61946, Category 4 PLe per EN ISO13849.1, and SIL3/SILCL3 per IEC 61508/IEC 62061, exceeding OSHA/ANSI control reliability requirements. The EZ-SCREEN LS pair model numbers come with an LS receiver, LS emitter, end-cap bracket kit, and center-mount bracket kit, making them a reliable choice for a range of manufacturing and packaging applications.

30 mm Resolution Type 2 Safety Light Curtains

Compact optical safeguarding solution is designed for lower-risk applications where risk of injury is limited but some guarding is necessary.

Designed for lower-risk applications such as bump or bruise, knock-down, trapping but not crushing, or minor cuts and abrasions
Features simple, two-piece integrated system with no control box
Detects narrow objects, such as a hand or ankle
Offered with 30 mm resolution and 15 m range
Provides economical, compact optical safeguarding
Meets Type 2 requirements per IEC61496-1/-2 and Category 2 per EN954-1
Available in trip (auto reset) or latch (manual reset) models

The SFL series safety light curtains are installed in potentially dangerous or hazardous areas to safeguard personnel from injury. The light curtains feature proven technology from Autonics area sensors and mapping sensors. The light curtains are built to meet internationally safety standards and regulations. Various detection models (finger/hand/hand-body detection) and safety functions are available for diverse applications.

Safety light curtains protect personnel from injury and machines from damage by creating a sensing screen that guards machine access points and perimeters. Banner offers intuitive, easy-to-use safety light curtains for a wide variety of safety applications.

Type 4 safety light curtains protect personnel from injury and machines from damage by guarding points of operation, access, areas and perimeters. Type 2 safety light curtains are a cost-effective light curtain safety solution for guarding lower-risk applications, where the result of an accident is only a slight injury.

Measuring Light Curtain

- Features low-profile, programmable measuring light screen systems for inspections and profiling

- Includes a controller, emitter/receiver pair and interconnecting cables

- Offers programmable controller with a selection of measurement modes, scan modes and output configurations

- Available in heights from 133 to 1819 mm, depending upon model

- Offers emitters/receivers for detecting objects as small as 12.7 mm

- Includes advanced configuration software

- Available in models for central monitoring and control over a DeviceNet control network

- Features optional heated enclosures for outdoor applications

Measuring Light Curtain

- IO-Link, Modbus-RTU, and RS-485 models are available

- Applications include edge and center-guiding, loop tension control, hole sizing, parts counting and on-the-fly product sizing and profiling.

- Closely spaced infrared beams detect objects as small as 5 mm wide edge resolution is 2.5 mm.

- Controller functionality is built into the receiver, so basic setup requires no controller, software, or PC.

- Easy-to-use software is included for advanced configuration, using a PC.

- Configuration options include 14 measurement modes, three scanning methods, two analog and two discrete outputs and a serial output.

- Range is 4 meters.

- Array heights range from 150 to 2400 mm.

• A muting system can be configured easily in combination with the safety light curtain.

• Muting functions can be stably performed even when workpieces with holes pass.

Our Bulletin 445L Guardshield™ POC Type 4 Micro 400 safety light curtains are economical three-box safety light curtains in a small housing. Designed for use in benign industrial environments (IP54), this light-duty system is targeted to the semi-conductor, micro electronic and small assembly machine markets. We also offer these light curtains in cascadable configurations and in IP69K enclosures. The Micro 400 requires a dedicated controller such as the MSR41 for ON/OFF applications or the MSR42 for advanced safety functionality.

Compact Type 4, SIL 3, PLE safety light curtains
M12 connector on 20 in. pigtails
Minimal dead space of optic heads
Typical applications for the POC Type 4 GuardShield™ Micro 400 Light Curtains include:

Food and beverage (IP69K)
Light assembly machines/equipment
Micro-electronics
Pharmaceutical
Semi-conductor

The C4000 Entry/Exit safety light curtain is used to prevent human access to dangerous areas, while still enabling the automatic transport of materials into these areas. Instead of using additional muting sensors, these safety light curtains use pattern recognition to reliably differentiate between people and material.

At a glance:

• Type 4 (IEC 61496), SIL3 (IEC 61508), PL e (EN ISO 13849)
• Self-teaching, dynamic blanking
• 7-segment display
• Multiscan function increases availability
• External device monitoring (EDM), restart interlock
• Beam coding
• Configuration and diagnostics via PC