Machine safety functions play a central role in reducing risk, protecting operators, and ensuring that equipment operates within safe parameters. Yet many safety functions are misunderstood, improperly designed, or incorrectly validated, leading to gaps in protection and a lack of compliancy.
Learn more about key safety functions such as:
- Safety stop initiated by a safeguard
- Guard locking
- Safety light curtain muting and blanking
- Safe speed
- Safe enable
- Emergency stop
- Reset
Join as we explore the fundamental designs for machine safety functions and how to properly implement them into industrial applications.
Date: April 30, 2026
Time: 2:00 PM ET / 1:00 PM CT / 12:00 PM MT / 11:00 AM PT
Duration: 1 hour
Hosted by: Machine Design magazine, New Equipment Digest & EHS Today
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Presenter: Devin Murray
Devin is the tec.nicum Services Manager for Schmersal’s engineering services group in North America. He has written many whitepapers related to safety standards and general machine guarding, conducted risk assessments and validations, and developed and reviewed the implementation of corporate safety standards. As a founding member of our tec.nicum team, Devin helped develop a curriculum of machine safety training courses and recently lead our successful efforts to be an IACET Approved Provider. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and an MBA from Alfred University and is a TÜV certified Functional Safety Engineer for Machinery.
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