INDUSTRIAL safety engineering business Euchner has announced plans to launch two new products at this year’s PPMA exhibition.
Both the CTS safety switch and CKS2 coded key system will be unveiled in Birmingham.
The CTS is Euchner’s first FlexFunction device and expands the company’s product range by sitting between the all-round CTP and specialist CTM safety switch solutions. The business said the product combines the ‘best of both worlds’ in a single switch while offering ‘maximum flexibility’.
The CTS is IO-Link compatible and Industry 4.0-ready. By using a transponder-coded actuator to determine the switch’s function, Euchner explained that this allows a single device to perform a variety of functions that would otherwise require several switch variants. The ‘compact dimensions, high locking force of 3,900N and suitability to mount in three orientations’ is said to ensure the CTS is suitable for use across numerous safety engineering applications.
The new CKS2, meanwhile, is described as combining with highly-coded, transponder-based keys to form a safe system that meets the ‘highest safety requirements’ for machine and installation lockout and starting. Unlike the CKS, the CKS2 can be integrated as a module within Euchner’s Multifunction Gate Box MGB2, expanding the functionality of the door interlocking solution to a small control terminal with access control.
David Dearden, Euchner’s UK & Ireland country manager, said, “The combination of MGB2 and CKS2 can be used across multiple sectors and for numerous applications to ensure process efficiency, create access rights flexibility, increase personnel and process safety, safeguard product quality and create transparency and traceability.”
The MGB2 is an interlocking or guard locking system for the protection of safety doors on machines and systems. By incorporating additional safety modules to the MGB2, Euchner said machine builders can include numerous functions, including guard locking, escape release, start/stop, and emergency stop. Its modular design means the MGB2 can remove the need for a separate operator panel.
