Leuze electronic now offering safety consulting services

Every designer, manufacturer, supplier, importer and installer of machinery must take reasonably practical steps to ensure that the machine will operate without risk to the health and safety of all personnel. The safe design of the machine to appropriate functional safety standards plays a critical role in achieving this.

Leuze electronic has now expanded its range of services to include safety consulting services. Leuze is providing solutions to help machine users meet their legal requirements to provide a safe workplace, evaluating possible risks and providing safe solutions that improve employee and machine safety, which in turn reduces unplanned downtime and enhances productivity.

Leuze’s consulting services for safety critical controls help manufacturers comply with the current functional safety standards and can assist in all stages of the safety machine lifecycle with the following services:

• Machine safety design review
• Team-based risk assessment
• Safety requirement specification documentation
• Safety circuit review and verification
• Safety circuit analysis
• Safety system validation
• Stop time measurement
• Customised safety training.
   

Leuze’s TÜV-certified FSE engineer can also arrange a machine safety system specific to customer requirements. The system is fully compliant and easy to maintain, and comes complete with official validation documentation for future safety audits.

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