Digitisation

What does increasing digi­ti­sa­tion mean for the pro­tec­tion of human and machine? Which tech­nolo­gies meet the safety require­ments? What role do humans play? Pilz is working with part­ners on the dig­ital future of safe automa­tion, in order to answer these or sim­ilar ques­tions.

More efficient diagnostics via IO-Link Safety

In today’s auto­mated and increas­ingly indi­vid­u­alised pro­duc­tion envi­ron­ments, safety and effi­ciency must go hand in hand. As pro­duc­tion lines become increas­ingly com­plex, con­ven­tional cabling and safety archi­tec­tures are often unable to keep up.

“A sophisticated security concept can become a competitive advantage”

Max­i­m­ilian Moser, Con­sul­tant Indus­trial & Product Secu­rity, VDMA e.V. Soft­ware and Dig­i­ti­za­tion, on the role of mechan­ical and plant engi­neering and the cyber resilience of supply chains and prod­ucts.

Focus on human and machine

Ensuring that machinery runs smoothly is a respon­sible task: pro­duc­tive processes must go hand in hand with the pro­tec­tion of human, machine and data. For mat­ters of Safety, Secu­rity and Com­pli­ance, Pilz has a dig­ital plat­form to pro­vide sup­port throughout the machine life­cycle.

Radar technology for automation

One focus area for Pilz is to expand con­ven­tional safety tech­nology using inno­v­a­tive sensor tech­nolo­gies, to make the safe automa­tion of the future more effi­cient. An example is radar tech­nology: radar sen­sors from Pilz can already be used to mon­itor zones safely.

Seamless production of the future

Modern pro­duc­tion is cur­rently under­going a par­a­digm shift. Com­pa­nies are faced with the chal­lenge of opti­mising the gen­er­a­tion and use of data in order to remain com­pet­i­tive and meet legal require­ments. A new model, that of data rooms, offers a solu­tion by enabling net­worked, trans­parent and effi­cient com­mu­ni­ca­tion between many par­tic­i­pants.

Transformation with Safety, Security and Automation

Today, indus­trial trans­for­ma­tion also focuses on appli­ca­tion sce­narios that bring together automa­tion and safety solu­tions in an “all-in-one” package. This way it is pos­sible to achieve greater con­sis­tency between automa­tion and safety – ulti­mately for a “safer” trans­for­ma­tion.

Hydrogen: Clean, Safe and Secure

If we are to exploit the poten­tial of hydrogen as the energy car­rier of the future, it must be com­pletely safe to handle. Proven safety prin­ci­ples from the automa­tion industry can achieve this.

Out of the control cabinet!

It’s not just time that’s money – space is too. That’s what makes decen­tralised automa­tion solu­tions so attrac­tive. With the right remote I/O solu­tion, users can not only save space, but also reduce their wiring work. Plus they enjoy greater flex­i­bility when imple­menting decen­tralised con­trol archi­tec­tures – even in rugged indus­trial envi­ron­ments.

Transformation of industry

Everyone is talking about sus­tain­ability. Together with digi­ti­sa­tion, the two are cur­rently leading to an exten­sive trans­for­ma­tion of industry. Safe automa­tion plays a key role in ensuring that this is suc­cessful.

Operational Safety Intelligence: Production adapts to the person

On the journey to net­worked pro­duc­tion, Safety & Secu­rity remain a crit­ical factor for suc­cess. The archi­tec­ture of new flex­ible machine mod­ules must con­sider the cor­re­sponding safety tech­nology from the start, and inte­grate func­tional safety into the pro­duc­tion processes.

Safely into the future

The automa­tion world is changing. Now more than ever. Key­words such as Indus­trial Secu­rity, Arti­fi­cial Intel­li­gence (AI), as well as open­ness and stan­dard­i­s­a­tion, are hot topics. As a reli­able partner for plant and machinery safety, Pilz takes its cus­tomers by the hand and walks the journey with them – through the trans­for­ma­tion and into the future.

The future is formed through cooperation

Where the future is con­cerned, Pilz not only looks to exchange with cus­tomers, but also works inten­sively with research ini­tia­tives. But the secret recipe for suc­cessful research is not digi­ti­sa­tion …

Digital CE conformity

In the research project SDM4FZI, around 30 part­ners are working together on the devel­op­ment of soft­ware-defined pro­duc­tion for the auto­mo­tive and sup­plier industry. Pilz is involved as a research partner for a uni­form dig­ital safety con­cept.

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