SCHAUMBURG, IL--(Marketwired - September 12, 2013) - Safety-related position encoders have been available from HEIDENHAIN for several years. However, those encoders have been rated to SIL 2, PL d, ...

SCHAUMBURG, IL--(Marketwired - June 11, 2015) - When an automation system which includes an encoder must be certified to a specific Performance Level (PL) or Safety Integrity Level (SIL), the design ...

Heidenhain Corporation is making available a new version of the RCN Series of absolute angle encoders, now with “Functional Safety” offering numerous advantages to today’s machine tools. Heidenhain ...

An alternative to gates for rotating machines is to base safety controls on safety-rated encoders. Here, the encoder tracks system speed. When a worker needs to get close and triggers the ...

POSITAL announced the expansion of its family of IXARC absolute rotary encoders to include models explicitly designed for use in safety-critical motion control systems. The new encoders feature ...

BEI Sensors is introducing its new functional safety incremental encoder range that is certified by TÜV Rheinland and can be used in the highest industrial safety related applications up to SIL3/PLe ...

SICK has released safety-certified versions of its TTK70 and TTK50 magnetic absolute linear encoders with Hiperface° interface, widening the opportunities for accurate, absolute motor feedback systems ...

The EQI 1331 rotary encoder has 19 bits of resolution in the single-turn range while tracking 4096 (12 bits) revolutions; the ECI 1319 is a single-turn encoder with 524,288 (19 bits) of resolution.

POSITAL has expanded its family of IXARC absolute rotary encoders to include models explicitly designed for use in safety-critical motion control systems. The new encoders feature redundant ...