Control Engineering Europe – March 2019

(Rick Simeone) #1

Safety network for automated production environments


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With the launch of its Safe EFI-pro
System, SICK has delivered standard
industrial Ethernet-based safety
network integration for highly-
adaptive and dynamic safeguarding
in automated production and logistics
environments to SIL 3/PLe.
The SICK Safe EFI-pro System is a
single-source solution that provides the
foundation for simpler, more productive
and responsive machinery safety, which
is suited to use in dynamic applications
like autonomous vehicles and human/
robot collaboration. It comprises the
SICK microScan3 EFI-Pro safety laser
scanner and the SICK Flexi Soft safety
controller with EFI-Pro gateway.
Safe EFI-pro is a safety network for
industrial automation, based on the CIP
Safety protocol. It offers the prospect
of more productive and flexible safety
solutions founded on rapid, high
capacity transmission of both safe


and non-safe data across all levels of
communication.
The SICK Flexi Soft EFI-pro Gateway
facilitates simple and safe system
integration via EtherNet/IP CIP Safety
and EFI-pro, allowing
connection to SICK EFI-Pro
devices as well as third-
party CIP-Safety devices.
Soft modular controller,
the system provides
scalability, facilitating the
integration of encoders
for Safe Motion Control,
devices with analogue
outputs, hardwired I/O
as well as additional
gateways for non-safe
communication to any
other networks.
The SICK microScan
EFI-pro safety laser
scanner enables

simultaneous field evaluation with the
ability to monitor up to eight protective
fields at the same time on a single
device. The user can also configure up
to 128 monitoring cases per scanner.

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