Issue 3/2022
Industrial Security

Secu­rity affects us all! This is a firmly held con­vic­tion at Pilz. In the 3/2022 issue of “Mensch und Automa­tion”, dis­cover how Pilz is heavily involved in this issue and sup­ports cus­tomers with imple­men­ta­tion.

Security affects us all

Indus­trial Secu­rity not only includes the pro­tec­tion of data, but at the same time also guar­an­tees the integrity of safety func­tions and mea­sures. If a pro­duc­tion ­worker starts up a plant, for example, even though they are not autho­rised to do so, this is already con­sid­ered a secu­rity inci­dent. This manip­u­la­tion, even if ­unin­ten­tional, endan­gers the safety of other employees. This makes it even more impor­tant to con­sider safety holis­ti­cally – because it also plays a key role in ­ques­tions of lia­bility.

“There is much uncertainty”

Increasing digi­ti­sa­tion in the smart fac­tory is accom­pa­nied by new chal­lenges when dealing with safety. Thomas Pilz, Man­aging Partner at Pilz, is inter­viewed about cur­rent devel­op­ments and the changing under­standing of safety and indus­trial secu­rity.

In step: Retrofit on the points

What can you do if the rail infra­struc­ture for regional and local trans­port is ageing, ham­pering the imple­men­ta­tion of attrac­tive clock-face sched­ules? When mod­ernising out­dated points con­trollers in Kraków and four other Polish cities, the com­pany ZUE put its trust in the automa­tion system PSS 4000. This now reli­ably and ­safely con­trols these points.

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Three minutes with …
… Nils Brücker

Senior Product Man­ager Soft­ware and Tech­nolo­gies

Maintenance without restart

When a machine is being main­tained, it is impor­tant that the per­sonnel can per­form the work con­sci­en­tiously and that the plant and machinery never starts up during this work. Dig­ital main­te­nance safe­guarding there­fore ensures that only autho­rised per­sons gain access.

A manager for intralogistics

In coop­er­a­tion with the start-up NAiSE GmbH, Pilz offers the world’s first traffic and order man­ager for all par­tic­i­pants in ­intral­o­gis­tics – for people as well as trans­port sys­tems. With this, Pilz is expanding its offer for safe appli­ca­tions of auto­mated guided vehicle (AGV) sys­tems.

Going with the flow

Auto­mated guided vehicle (AGV) sys­tems coast through the ware­house, inde­pen­dently pick up goods at point A and unload them again at point B. To ensure every­thing flows smoothly, safe scan­ners, safe analysis units and an indus­trial fire­wall are also on board.

20 years of “wiring by mouse”

“Wiring by mouse” – what is a global stan­dard today first came into the world of automa­tion in 2002 at the SPS exhi­bi­tion in Nurem­berg: 20 years ago, Pilz first intro­duced a con­fig­urable safe small con­troller to a wide audi­ence at the exhi­bi­tion. At that time it was a global inno­va­tion: the oppor­tu­nity to create a safety cir­cuit using an easy-to-operate, graphics-based con­fig­u­ra­tion tool – without knowl­edge of a “higher” pro­gram­ming lan­guage.

Added value through automation

Designing entire pro­duc­tion envi­ron­ments to be safe for people, machines and the envi­ron­ment: Pilz Czech Republic and Pilz Slo­vakia are experts at this. With their exper­tise on holistic safety con­cepts, they sup­port their cus­tomers in over­coming the chal­lenges resulting from increasing automa­tion.

Fast, faster, Safety Check!

A simple and quick overview of the safety and con­for­mity status of your own machines is often worth its weight in gold. Do I still have full lia­bility pro­tec­tion? Are upgrades nec­es­sary? This is pre­cisely where the new ser­vice Machinery Safety Eval­u­a­tion – or MSE for short – from Pilz comes in.

Managing access

A mod­ular system offering that pre­vents unau­tho­rised access and can be ­adapted to the respec­tive appli­ca­tion is impor­tant because of how indi­vidual ­access to plant and machinery is. The most effort is in the main­te­nance of ­per­mis­sions and this can be sup­ported by the appro­priate soft­ware tools.
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