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Safety Tutorial Videos

Here you will find a collection of Safety Tutorial Videos.
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Our most recent videos

  • PODCAST: Automation World Gets Your Questions Answered

    Do Collaborative Robots Need Safety Risk Assessments?

    In this episode Devin Murray defines what a collaborative robot (cobot) is, current standards for cobot safety, the hazards around cobots, the need for risk assessment of the cobot application, and several methods to make cobots safer.

    View on YouTube Duration: 15:36

  • Ask The Expert: Machine Safety Questions

    Question: What is the purpose of Safety Controllers?

    Devin Murray answers this question.

    View on YouTube. Duration 1:29

Schmersal on Machine Safety series

  • Safety Circuits: Manual Reset

    Peter Rigakos talks about manual reset for safety circuits and best engineering practices of using falling edge detection to prevent manual reset buttons becoming automatic resets.

    View on YouTube Duration: 3:52

  • Performance Levels

    Devin Murray explains performance levels, per ISO 13849, breaking down the related concepts such as diagnostic coverage, common cause failures, mean time to a dangerous failure, and categories.

    View on YouTube  Duration: 3:45

  • Control Reliability

    Peter Rigakos discusses Control Reliability, its origins, and designing safety circuits to standards.

    View on YouTube Duration: 2:40

  • Risk Assesssment

    Devin Murray talks briefly about risk assessment and identifying machine hazards so the machine can be properly safeguarded.

    View on YouTube Duration: 1:36

Ask The Expert: Machine Safety Questions

PODCASTS

Automation World Gets Your Questions Answered

The podcast series “Automation World Gets Your Questions Answered” connects Automation World subscribers with industry experts to get the answers to many questions on machine automation, Industry 4.0/networking, safety, and new technologies. The podcast is hosted by David Greenfield, Director of Content for Automation World. 

What Is A Machine Risk Assessment? 
Learn the details of machine risk assessments, what types of equipment require them, who's responsible for them, when to begin the process, and how to comply with machine risk assessment regulations in this episode. (Duration: 16:26)

> Listen to the podcast on YouTube (with captions)       > Listen to the audio only at Automation World


Do Collaborative Robots Need Safety Risk Assessments? 
In this episode, Devin Murray defines what a collaborative robot (cobot) is, current standards for cobot safety, the hazards around cobots, the need for risk assessment of the cobot application, and several methods to make cobots safer. (Duration: 15:37)

> Listen to the podcast on YouTube (with captions)       > Listen to the audio only at Automation World

From our archives: Man-Machine Safeguarding video series