{"id":14199,"date":"2019-09-18T11:40:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T10:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.engineernewsnetwork.com\/blog\/?p=14199"},"modified":"2019-09-18T11:40:21","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T10:40:21","slug":"rs-components-announces-availability-of-new-guardlink-component","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.engineernewsnetwork.com\/blog\/rs-components-announces-availability-of-new-guardlink-component\/","title":{"rendered":"Enabling greater machine and plant safety"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

RS Components (RS) has made available a new Guardmaster<\/a><\/strong> smart device for the Allen-Bradley GuardLink system from Rockwell Automation, which is designed to enhance safety and increase machine- and plant-wide efficiency.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aimed at designers of machine systems and providing a simpler, effective and more productive safety solution, Allen-Bradley GuardLink technology is a communications protocol that links smart-safety devices and systems to connected enterprise networks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deployment of the technology provides maintenance engineers and professionals with visibility of the system status at all levels including down to individual guard doors and e-stops. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It provides easy access to diagnostic data across connected safety management devices and enables fast troubleshooting. This approach contrasts with a standard series of safety devices, which typically involves significantly more wiring and introduces many more potential fault points, which can lead to unnecessary and unplanned downtime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is an extensive range of Guardmaster devices that feature the GuardLink technology and offer high flexibility in delivering information and advanced functionality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now available at RS, the Guardmaster 440S tap acts as an adapter and connects safety input devices such as output-signal-switching inputs or electromechanical-safety-switch inputs to a GuardLink system. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Up to 32 safety devices \u2013 including guard-locking switches, non-contact switches, light curtains, limit switches, e-stops and key interlocks \u2013 can be connected to a GuardLink system via these Guardmaster taps. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The taps provide safety device location and status to a Guardmaster DG safety relay, which is connected via standard four-wire cables with M12 connectors. System connection to enterprise networks can then be achieved via the 440R-ENETR Ethernet\/IP network interface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shipping now from RS in the EMEA region, variants of the 440S tap series include five- and eight-pin M12 devices with either electromechanical or solid-state contacts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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