Martin Kidman

Dr. Martin Kidman is safety solutions market product manager at Sick.

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Highly productive and dynamic automation depends on optimizing the flow of materials between individual processes. Achieving close to a continuous flow is the ultimate aim, including at the end of a production line where goods need to be packed, palletized and transferred for onward distribution. Sick’s Safe Portal is a pre-certified solution, originally developed for material transfer stations in automotive assembly. Courtesy: Sick, Control Engineering Europe
Machine Safety August 11, 2023

Safety, productivity can be compatible for machine control applications

Explore the options for safely optimizing material flows in access protection applications without affecting productivity.

By Martin Kidman
Discrete Manufacturing March 15, 2017

European Machinery Directive helps with safe machinery speeds

Control Engineering International: European Union Machinery Directive includes standards that can help with permissible safe limits of operation, according to Control Engineering Europe.

By Martin Kidman
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