Safety Components
(32 companies)Specialized controllers and devices related to machine safety, such as safety relays, light curtains, safety-rated switches for doors and other safety controls.
ACE Controls Inc.
ACE Controls specializes in automation control, motion control, vibration control and safety products that are utilized in a wide range of applications in packaging and processing. Motion control solutions include industrial gas springs, hydraulic dampers, feed controls and rotary dampers. Automation control products such as miniature shock absorbers, profile dampers and damping pads manage motion sequences through devices such as cylinder position switches, air flow controllers and pressure sensors. Meanwhile vibration control products like vibration isolating pads and low frequency pneumatic leveling mounts reduce vibrations.
Autonics USA, Inc.
Autonics manufactures a wide range of sensors, controllers, and controls utilized across packaging, food and beverage, as well as medical equipment and pharmaceutical industries. Their products encompass I/O terminal blocks, safety products, light curtains, motion drives, networking components, switches, signals, software, and more. Autonics addresses the unique needs of the packaging industry by offering solutions such as vision sensors, color mark sensors, presence sensors, temperature controllers, and diverse corrosion-resistant products for applications ranging from bagging to labeling. Its diverse range of corrosion-resistant, durable products are used in food and beverage manufacturing, including raw ingredient processing, cleaning and sanitization, mass production, distribution, and more. Autonics controls are also used extensively to automate processes in the medical equipment and pharmaceutical industries.
Balluff, Inc
As a leading sensor and automation specialist, Balluff offers a comprehensive portfolio of innovative sensor, identification, network and software solutions to increase production and improve quality in hundreds of industries.
B&R Industrial Automation
In addition to motion controls and process controls, B&R offers a ready-made software solution that helps OEMs implement pick-and-place applications faster. Not only does the system control the robot itself, it also handles coordination with other axes, conveyor belts or tracks. mapp Pick&Place grants the user maximum freedom to solve the requirements of their process using any number of delta, articulated arm or SCARA robots. The software also allows developers to automatically optimize their process in different ways. They can choose whether the movement profiles should prioritize shortest pick duration, first in first out, or energy-optimized movement. B&R is a single-source supplier of controls and robotics. Robots from its parent company, ABB, are fully integrated in the B&R automation system.
Banner Engineering Corp.
Banner Engineering makes a wide variety of sensors to solve challenging problems for its customers. Sensor product line includes technology for photoelectrics, laser distance measurement, ultrasonics, and fiber optics for almost any industrial automation application.
Beckhoff Automation
Product range covers industrial PCs, embedded PCs, PLCs, PACs, motherboards, HMI hardware and software, industrial displays, stainless steel industrial displays, I/O, machine mounted I/O, stainless steel I/O, fieldbus components, industrial Ethernet, networking solutions, machine safety equipment, programmable safety, switches, servo motors, stainless steel servo motors, servo drives, stepper motors, stepper drives, DC drives, gearboxes, stainless steel gearboxes, linear transport systems, stainless steel linear transport systems, planar motor systems, automation software, machine learnings software, machine vision software, cables, connectors and accessories.
Bihl+Wiedemann, Inc.
Bihl+Wiedemann specializes in the field of automation and safety technology with AS-Interface (ASi). Its complete ASi product portfolio covers master/gateways, modules/slaves, safety components, bus couplers/master simulators as well as in-house developed software. ASi-5 is the latest innovation stage of ASi, a globally standardized fieldbus system for the first automation level. ASi connects sensors and actuators with a controller via a single two-core flat cable. The yellow ASi cable transmits power and data at the same time.The proven main benefits of ASi are, among others, dramatically less wiring, free choice of topology and cost-efficient integration of safety on the same infrastructure. In addition, compared to other fieldbus systems, ASi needs no connectors for data and power integration.
Bosch Rexroth Corporation
Automation controls and components from Rexroth include hydraulics, gearboxes, I/O, industrial PCs and HMI, safety controls, drives, motors and gearboxes and cables for linear motion, assembly and tightening technology. Rexroth’s I/O modules have a robust design and mechanics, are easy to handle, have a fast reaction time and are quick to install – both in the control cabinet as well as in the field. Also featured from Rexroth is its ctrlX DRIVE line, marketed as the most compact modular drive system available, offering virtually unlimited options for users, sophisticated engineering tools, and high energy efficiency.
CLE Can Lines Engineering
Can Lines Engineering (CLE) not only designs control panels, HMI stations, and operator interfaces for its own equipment, but it can also provide designs for existing equipment upgrades, including safety circuits. Capabilities include electrical control panels in an array of sizes, user friendly touch screen interfaces (HMIs), distributed drive systems (conveyor mounted), local motor disconnects, light curtains, life-lines (cable operated safety switches), operator pushbutton stations, sensors for automated control and more.
Delta Systems & Automation LLC
Delta Systems & Automation LLC supplies PC-controlled solutions to motion control. Delta Systems’ open-architecture system is compatible with most computer systems and networks and offers a choice of control platforms for flowrapping and other applications.
Descon Integrated Conveyor Solutions
Descon offers specialty controls for conveyors including centralized motor, distribution motor, integrated electrical wireway, plug and play cable systems as well as software and documentation systems. Descon’s automation experts in the Electrical Controls Team are knowledgeable with equipment interfacing, integration between machine centers and clean software code. Descon is a Certified UL Builder.
Edelflex
Edelflex designs and builds power distribution and control panels, software and components, plant control and safety systems, telemetry, as well as data integration to corporate applications, connectivity solutions and integrated data visualization.
Elesa USA Corporation
Elesa U.S.A. 's catalog of instrumentation and indicators for machines and processes includes award-winning mechanical and electronic position indicators, gravity position indicators, as well as related machine components, safety components and accessories, such as handwheels for position indicators, electrical safety hinges, control knobs, and more.
Emerson Discrete Automation
Staying competitive requires industrial plant operators to harness data in real time and then move that data from the floor to an on- or off-premise cloud where it can be analyzed to identify improvements. ASCO's comprehensive suite of hardware, control software, and edge technology streamlines communication between OT, IT, the edge and the cloud. Emerson is an automation partner for leaders and equipment providers in many industries. From on-the-floor computing to plant-wide SCADA, Emerson can help customers operate efficiently, safely, and profitably.
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Euchner-USA, Inc.
The product range offered by Euchner-USA, Inc. encompasses a wide array of safety products designed for industrial applications. These include multifunctional gate boxes, transponder-coded safety switches, electromechanical safety switches, safety relays, and control systems, among others. The company also specializes in light grids and offers a variety of products for different safety applications through its online store. Euchner-USA, Inc. is also a supplier of safety solutions for metal machining, automated packaging processes, and smart safety solutions tailored to meet individual customer requirements. These offerings are aimed at addressing the modern communication needs for machine and installation automation, ensuring compatibility with various fieldbus systems and communication protocols.
Festo Corporation
In the everyday factory environment, industrial automation technology is utilized for joining, rotating, gripping, positioning, connecting, holding, testing, and checking individual parts, modules, or complete products. Festo's industrial automation controls portfolio is designed to perform all of these tasks. Festo's main product groups include electric, pneumatic, and servo pneumatic actuators; pneumatic valves and valve manifolds; devices for compressed air treatment and vacuum technology; pneumatic grippers and industrial robots; servo motors and drives; sensors and image processing systems; controllers and software. Festo products are used across a broad spectrum of industrial segments, including food processing and industrial packaging.
JHFOSTER (formerly known as John Henry Foster)
J.H. Foster equips industrial facilities with controls, electrical components, pneumatic actuators and grippers and related equipment. Product line includes electric actuators, electrical control panels, gear boxes, PLC, HMI, servo reducers, servo and stepper drivers. Photoelectric sensors come in LED, laser and fiber optic configurations and are available in beam-break and beam-make versions with a variety of sensing models. Pneumatic actuators work together with grippers to clamp parts and tools in place as actuators work during automation processes in manufacturing, such as material transfer, pick and place and indexing. J.H. Foster also supplies vacuum cups and generators as well as assorted automation accessories and components for all pneumatic applications.
KEB America
KEB offers a full suite of automation products that are used by a wide variety of machine builders. This includes machine motion controllers, remote access and data analytics, HMIs, drives, and motors.
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Keyence Corporation of America
Keyence specializes in a variety of control products, ranging from Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs), and servo motors to counters, timers, switching power supplies, and other control devices. In addition, Keyence makes safety light curtains, measurement sensors, photoelectric sensors and related equipment. Featured products include the Keyence Modular PLC, featuring high-speeds and expanded memory. The PLC easily records all data with synchronized video to quickly diagnose and troubleshoot when a production error occurs. These PLCs also seamlessly connect to other factory automation sensors and devices.
Murrelektronik Inc.
Murrelektronik’s I/O systems connect actuators and sensors of a system to the control to help the food and beverage industry meet the requirements governing hygiene, cleanliness and corrosion protection. Featured I/O systems include the MVK Pro and IMPACT67 Pro compact IO-Link master modules with eight multifunctional master ports. These IP67 rated fieldbus modules can replace complexly wired and expensive terminal boxes are an important component in decentralized installations.
Omron Automation Americas
Omron Industrial Automation supplies an extensive range of controls, software and automation components including PLC and MAC controllers, machine safety solutions, motion controls, motors, sensors, networking solutions, remote IO, IPC, and HMI technology. Highlighted control systems from Omron include its line of machine controllers, which offer synchronous control of all machine devices and advanced functionality such as motion, robotics and database connectivity. The fully integrated Sysmac automation platform is a multidisciplinary concept that allows users to simplify solution architecture, reduce programming and optimize productivity while harnessing complete control and management in the automation plant.
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PATLITE (U.S.A.) Corporation
Founded in 1947, PATLITE is a global supplier of visual and audible signaling devices, including signal towers, signal beacons, LED lighting devices, and more. Their online catalog showcases warning devices such as indicator lights, revolving lights, sound and voice synthesizers, and diffused warning lights. As the industry's signaling needs has evolved from simple lights and buzzers to smart, network-capable devices, and IoT devices utilizing wireless technology, PATLITE has developed a range of products, including wireless data-acquisition systems, programmable signal towers, IO-Link, and POE-enabled devices. These innovations aim to deliver safety, security, and comfort to workplaces and facilities worldwide.
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Pilz Automation Safety LP
Pilz products and systems are utilized globally by plants and OEMs in equipment for the packaging, food and beverage processing, consumer goods, pharmaceutical, and bio-pharmaceutical industries. Pilz calls itself "automation specialists committed to safety." Sensor technologies include safety switches for monitoring positions and guards, optical sensors such as light curtains, and camera systems for monitoring areas and zones. Controllers and I/O systems from Pilz provide quick, easy, and reliable solutions for safety and automation tasks. Pilz's operation and monitoring products encompass simple E-STOP pushbuttons, control devices, stationary operator terminals, as well as general-purpose devices for demanding applications. PNOZ safety relays have been employed millions of times for safety applications, controlling, and monitoring facilities and machinery. Pilz's servo drive technology is designed for safe, energy-efficient solutions for automating machines, from operation via the controller through to the movement of highly dynamic drives. Pilz also supplies software, configurable small controllers, service robotics modules, and network systems.
Redzone Production Systems
The Redzone Production System is a verticalized social mobile platform for industry designed for front line team collaboration to radically change operating performance within the four walls of the manufacturing plant. Highly visual platform helps create the environment for front line teams to resolve issues on the plant floor to keep production running.
Rockwell Automation
Rockwell Automation’s flagship Allen-Bradley® and Rockwell Software® product brands offer a vast array of automation, manufacturing, safety products, automation systems and drives. Featured hardware includes the 450L GuardShield™ PAC Safety Light Curtains to protect personnel from hazardous machinery that use whole-body detection and are typically positioned around an area or in front of a machine process entry or exit area. Model 42EA RightSight™ S18 and 42EF RightSight M18 photoelectric sensors feature a wide range of sensing modes and are ideal for general purpose and cost-sensitive applications in material handling, packaging and other industries. The Allen‑Bradley ASEM™ 6300 is a complete portfolio of open architecture industrial PCs, thin clients and monitors used in food and beverage and other facilities that require a high-performance Human Machine Interface (HMI) solution for industrial environments. Portfolio integrates completely with Rockwell’s FactoryTalk® View SE and FactoryTalk View ME software, allowing for seamless assimilation within the facility.
Ross Controls
ROSS Controls offers safety components, pneumatic controls and other components such as flow control valves, block and stop valves, safety valves for clutch/brake control, silencers, electrical connectors, pressure switches and more.
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Schmersal USA
Schmersal supplies an extensive line of safety products. Offering includes: keyed safety interlock switches, solenoid latching keyed safety interlock switches, non-contact coded-magnet sensors, emergency cable-pull switches, hinged safety interlocks, safety edges/bumpers, safety rated limit switches, safety foot switches, safety controllers/plc, safety pressure mats, safety light curtains, grids, and barriers. Other products offered by Schmersal include ip69k rated pushbutton, joysticks, and safety switches. Schmersal safety products feature unique actuating mechanisms that resist bypassing or overriding, positive-break nc contacts, fail-to-safe electrical design, positive-guided relays, and rugged sealed industrial housings, all designed to satisfy the highest levels of assessed risk.
Schneider Electric
Schneider Electric specializes in the digital transformation of energy management and automation. Schneider’s catalog includes motion controllers, drives, motors, and robotics, featuring the Altivar Machine ATV340, an innovative variable speed drive for smart machines in high-performance material handling solutions. Other industrial controls and automation products include limit switches; measurement and instrumentation devices; PLC, PAC and dedicated controllers; power supplies and transformers; enclosures; HMI terminals and industrial PCs; process control and safety devices; soft starters and more.
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SEW Eurodrive, Inc.
SEW Eurodrive provides a wide range of control solutions for the beverage industry. Online product catalog features a vast number of control and drive products, such as gear motors, servo drives, controller hardware and software and much more. Modular drive components, predefined solutions in the MAXOLUTION® drive packages, and customized MAXOLUTION® system solutions, are designed for the beverage industry. To meet the dynamics, precision, continuity requirements required of packaging machines in the food and consumer goods industry, SEW Eurodrive engineers drives and controls that resolve repetitive tasks such as filling, closing, palletizing, and transporting.
SICK, Inc.
SICK offers a wide array of sensors as well as machine and electrical components including photoelectric sensors, inductive sensors, LiDAR sensors, inertial sensors, positioning sensors, OLS line guidance sensors, and sensors for color, contrast and distance. Integration machines connect sensor networks. SICK also offers RFID code readers, transponders and antennas, encoders, motor feedback systems and connection devices. Company also makes safety light curtains, safety laser scanners and safety door switches.
Tessera Group Inc.
Penmar Automation, a part of the Tessera Group, specializes in the design, construction, installation, and commissioning of various types of control panels, consistently exceeding customer expectations. With a legacy spanning over three decades, it has been at the forefront of engineering and design, delivering customized solutions in system controls for a diverse array of equipment. Whether it's a one-off panel or multiple panels, Penmar Automation can tailor its services to meet the unique needs of clients. Capabilities extend to building control panels of any size to the highest standards, utilizing materials certified by CSA and UL. All control panels undergo electrical inspection before leaving the facility, ensuring compliance with local regulations and securing approval. The range of control panels includes PLC control panels, remote I/O panels, HMI control panels, relay panels, motor controls, robot interface control panels, start/stop stations/push-button enclosures, termination junction boxes, variable Frequency, DC and AC drive panels. Additionally, Penmar Automation is equipped to handle service calls related to fault diagnosis and breakdown resolution, providing comprehensive support.
TM Process & Controls, Inc.
TM Process & Controls offers services including controls and integration design, network and server design, cybersecurity, panel upgrades, PLC upgrades, automation solutions, Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Enterprise Resource Planning and Manufacturing Execution Systems.
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