Pressbrake safety system

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The Pressbrake Safety System AKAS meets the safety requirements of category 4 according to EN 954 and prEN 61496, and the most recent requirements of prEN 12622.

Features include:

• Innovative finger guarding system for pressbrakes by following LASER optical safety light grids in front of the tool;
• Finger guard works during the foot pedal controlled bending process — hands remain free for the operation with the slug;
• Increase of productivity due to programmable adaptation of the AKAS II to the individual overrun traverses of the machine;
• Short change-over times due to all-automatic change-over to other tool sizes.

The Pressbrake Laser guarding System AKAS-II is is a special protective device for press brakes. It consists of transmitter, receiver and LSUW N1 MUTING K controller (switching unit) or the Safety PLC FPSC.

The transmitter generates two modulated visible red laser beams. The receiver consists of three detecting elements and of one evaluation unit.

Transmitter and receiver are fixed to the ram of the machine and form a laser-optical safety light grid which is located in front of the bending punch.

With the laser-optical safety light grid AKAS-II the hands remain free for handling the slug during the operation under continuous protection of the extremities during the whole bending process.

Electromotor driven actuators located in the AKAS-II supports provide a quick and easy, all-automatic adjustment of both AKAS-II transmitter and AKAS-II receiver according to the requirements of other tool sizes.