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Emergency-stop buttons now with Functional Safety

All styles of Rockwell Automation Allen-Bradley emergency-stop push buttons are now available with TÜV-certified B10d Functional Safety ratings.

According to Rockwell, this provides users with published certified safety product data for calculating the safety level of their entire control safety system, thereby helping to ensure control safety system reliability.

B10d Functional Safety data is a measure of safety-related product reliability, and a critical component in the calculation of Performance Levels required by the new EN/ISO 13849-1: 2008 ‘Safety of Machinery — Safety related parts of control systems’ standard.

Rockwell Automation has published this data in a library that is integrated with the widely accessible SISTEMA database, which reportedly allows it to be easily incorporated in calculations without manual entry.

Used to cease motion to help prevent injury to workers or damage to machinery, e-stop push buttons are acknowledged as a critical component for automation systems, says Rockwell.

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