Control Engineering presents – Safety: How to Spend $2,000 to Save $20,000
| August 12, 2005 In this issue:
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| Top Stories Safety: How to Spend $2,000 to Save $20,000 By Paul Davis, Machine Safety Expert, Paul Davis Automation Imagine arriving at work and finding the OSHA area district compliance officer waiting to tell you that your facility has been selected for an audit. If you’ve never experienced an OSHA walk-through at your facility before, you think the process will be relatively painless. After all, your OSHA 300 log looks good and there have been no formal complaints made to OSHA by any of your employees. Read more Distributed Safety for Increased Production, Decreased Downtime and Wiring By John D’Silva, Siemens Energy & Automation Inc. One of the hottest topics in automation today is the debate over whether to centralize or decentralize key control functions—and the handling of safety systems in these automation architectures is often a pivotal discussion point. This article examines how an automotive manufacturer approached the issue in a distributed manner. Read more Changing Safety Standards Introduce New Opportunities For Increased Profit And Greater Safety By J.B. Titus, Siemens Energy and Automation It is important for machine builders and end users to understand the implications of the changes that have taken place with consensus standards in the past decade, as they have a legal obligation to know how the standards impact their businesses. Equally important is the fact that recent options for safety compliance have been shown to improve profits for both OEMs and manufacturers. Read more
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