Melonee Wise

Chief Product Officer
Agility Robotics

Jeff Fryman

Principal Consultant
Association for Advancing Automation (A3)

Tom Meany

Functional Safety Expert for Industrial Products
Analog Devices

Mark Lewandowski

Director of Robotics Innovation
Procter & Gamble

Demonstrating safety to customers and code authorities is key to expanding your business opportunities for industrial robots, robot systems and autonomous mobile robots. Verification and validation is an important foundation to convey safety to customers, and demonstrating enhanced safety testing can be crucial in opening up expanded sales markets in a range of industries, including manufacturing, warehousing, distribution centers, and inspection for hazardous locations.

This session will demonstrate how testing to UL robotics standards can help further demonstrate safety for robots, components and systems, including fire and shock risks, energy & battery system hazards, functional safety, object detection & avoidance, and injury hazards. Learn how testing to UL robotics standards can help complement your A3/RIA verification and validation to open up new business segment and market opportunities for your robot products.

Michael Jensen

Product Manager - Industrial Robotics
UL Solutions

Machinery safety plays a key role in the field of occupational safety and health, since accidents and incidents related to poor machinery safety have a large social and economic impact. At a first glance, the aim of machinery safety is to ensure the safety and health of all persons which operate machines. Unfortunately, this is not enough, since there is an increasing number of robotic machinery with large operating ranges or mobile and operating not only in industrial but also in public or semi-public environments. For such robotic machinery, the exposure to the related hazards is mainly related to the mere vicinity of persons to them and therefore the detection of persons as well as the detection of potentially dangerous environments and situations is a key element for their safety.

In the late 50es (of the last Century) sensors were developed that could reliably detect the intrusion of a person in a hazardous zone, either directly by detecting the person itself or indirectly by detecting the position of movable guards as the change their position. With increasing automation, sensors have been used to detect materials (goods) to allow their passage through detection fields or to detect objects and structures to prevent collisions that may result in a harm for persons.

Nevertheless, the reliability of such sensors does not depend only in the reliability of its components, subsystems, or software, but also in the reliability of the applied physical principle of the sensor. Experience shows that sensors which are based in a single physical detection principle do not achieve the required functional reliability when applied in complex situations. To cover the systematic possible failures of some sensors, other sensors having different physical principles and systematic capabilities can be combined to a sensor system that reduces the uncertainties and provides the reliable information for the safe control of robots. This is generally described as “sensor fusion”.

In the last years experts have developed the IEC 62998 series of deliverables which deal with the requirements for the design of safety related sensor systems that apply the principle of sensor fusion and give guidance for the design of hardware and software of sensors not already covered by specific standards of the IEC 61496 series.

The contribution is aimed to clarify how the standard supports the design of safety sensor systems with different levels of reliability which can be successfully applied to robotics.

Otto Görnemann

Chairperson ISO/TC199 and CEN/TC114
SICK AG

Jeff Fryman

Principal Consultant
Association for Advancing Automation (A3)

Craig Salvalaggio

President
Applied Manufacturing Technologies

Gerd Walter

President & COO
Creative Automation

Otto Görnemann

Chairperson ISO/TC199 and CEN/TC114
SICK AG

Timothy Castillejos Martinez

Sales Manager
Euchner Mexico

Thomas Wedlick

Hardware Compliance Engineering
Amazon

Curtis Bender

Sr. Manager – Product Regulatory Affairs
Tennant Company

Safety signs and labels are essential to robot system risk reduction and are a key aspect of regulatory compliance. However, many robot system designers are unclear about the application of visual risk reduction measures in the robot system risk assessment and which safety standards apply. In this training session, we explain the role of safety signs and labels in risk assessments, ANSI Z535, ISO 3864 and best practices for effective safety signs, warning labels, and instructions for robot systems.

Angela Lambert

Director of Standards Compliance
Clarion Safety Systems

Ken Hackworth

Vice President of Safety Assessment
Machine Safety Specialists