Step-by-step safety: download the software

TOOLS Rockwell Automation presents a new tool to help designers set up machine safety systems. The solution automatically supplies layout options, performance level analysis and guided components selection and BOM.

Downloadable (at no cost) from Rockwell Automation’s website, this new configuration tool has been designed in order to simplify designing machine safety systems. Called SAB (Safety Automation Builder), it guides the user, step by step, in correctly identifying, selecting and positioning all necessary components to secure individual critical points of an installation and the system as a whole, in compliance with regulations and internationally accepted best practices.

Four of the multinational’s managers presented the solution to industry press, giving a practical demonstration of its effectiveness and “friendliness”: Ian Murgatrovd, EMEA Product Manager Safety Components; Enrico Merati, Local Business Leader in Italy for Sensing Safety & Connectivity; Marco Rizzi, Solution Architect, Integrated Architecture; Roberto Motta, Local Business Leader, Integrated Architecture. SAB enables reducing the time necessary for designing, and most importantly, it makes it easier, even for the non-specialized technician, to set up a complete design in line with the set safety objectives and including the bill of materials for manufacture, including the cost. Extremely simple and intuitive, and soon to be available in Italian, this system supplies options for layout and analysis of the desired Performance Level (PLr), using SISTEMA software (Safety Integrity Software Tool for Evaluation of Machine Applications), which is IFA-certified through the global standard ISO 13849-1. SAB also enables verifying the congruity of selected solutions and, where necessary, modifying them; by downloading the special Proposal Works software, it is also possible to access guided selection of Allen-Bradley products.

Rockwell Automation has also released new Safety Functions, preconfigured design documents with detailed information on many safety implementation methodologies. These include specific functions, Performance Level category data and the required input, output and logic components; moreover, they include component lists, electrical diagrams, SISTEMA project files and verification and validation plans.