Functional Safety - HEIDENHAIN

ESR strain sensor can help prevent structural disasters

admin — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 09:07:07 +0000

Schaumburg, IL (February 2022) – Developed to help prevent civil disasters and save lives, HEIDENHAIN’s ESR digital strain sensor is available to monitor the structural health on structures, such as on bridges and buildings, in order to provide preventative maintenance information. With a renewed emphasis on improving the national infrastructure, this digital ESR strain ...

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New ECM 2400 magnetic ring encoder

admin — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 00:00:53 +0000

SCHAUMBURG, IL (April 2021) – For those needing contamination-resistant encoders with functional safety (FS) for machine feedback, HEIDENHAIN introduces an absolute modular magnetic angle encoder. This new ECM 2400 encoder supplements HEIDENHAIN’s portfolio of absolute angle encoders and is designed for machine tool applications that require a sturdy encoder with medium accuracy. The ECM ...

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New EnDat 3: Future of digital manufacturing

admin — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 00:00:37 +0000

Globally-recognized encoder interface to serve as a universal industrial solution With the introduction of the new EnDat 3 interface, HEIDENHAIN has built upon its proven EnDat platform with a new protocol that is ideal to meet the feedback needs of the future in industrial manufacturing. This includes serving the needs of the newest innovations ...

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AMO encoders for Functional Safety-rated machines

admin — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 00:00:24 +0000

SCHAUMBURG, IL (June 2020) — For those needing Functional Safety-rated (FS) contamination-resistant encoders for machine feedback, AMO — a HEIDENHAIN brand — introduces FS absolute angle and linear encoders. While Functional Safety-rated machines are a standard requirement in the European Union, machine manufacturers outside the EU are now seeing the benefit of including FS ...

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Leine Linde sensor better measures equipment strain

admin — Mon, 22 Jul 2019 00:00:23 +0000

Schaumburg, IL (July 2019) – Leine Linde’s new ESR digital strain sensor is now available to monitor structural health on equipment where needed. Offered in North America through HEIDENHAIN CORPORATION, it is coupled with an encoder using the digital interface EnDat, and offers significantly higher signal quality, accuracy and robustness when compared with conventional ...

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Constantly reliable position acquisition

admin — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 00:00:57 +0000

Encoders from HEIDENHAIN satisfy OEMs with user-friendly solutions for the most diverse functional safety-related applications.

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Motion control design: The top 5 challenges (and opportunities)

admin — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 00:00:13 +0000

From lowering the cost of advanced technologies to improving functional safety in automated environments, here are the top five challenges and opportunities in today’s motion control design industry.

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Magnetic spindle encoder now with Functional Safety

admin — Mon, 14 Aug 2017 10:35:56 +0000

HEIDENHAIN CORPORATION is pleased to announce improvements to its ERM 2200 and 2400 series of magnetic modular angle encoders with Functional Safety in mind.

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ABB’S machine safety increases productivity

admin — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 00:00:24 +0000

Imagine that you work in pulp and paper production with drive systems for producing and moving paper at nearly 2000 metres per minute and the slightest unevenness in how the motor runs can tear the paper apart and stop the process.

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HEIDENHAIN’s hollow-shaft encoders provide functional machine safety

admin — Mon, 16 Jan 2017 05:00:02 +0000

HEIDENHAIN introduces a new series of functionally safe hollow-shaft connection encoders to the manufacturing equipment industry: the ECN/EQN/ERN 400 series.

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