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Functional Safety The Safety PLC Needs to Become More Flexible and Networked

A guest post by Holger Friedrich, Senior Group Key Account Manager for DACH – Industrial Automation, Delta Electronics | Translated by AI 4 min Reading Time

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Modular, flexible manufacturing environments are changing the requirements for functional safety: It is evolving from an isolated safety function to an integrated system characteristic.

Robotics in Flexible Manufacturing: As connectivity increases, so do the requirements for functional safety.(Image: Delta Electronics)
Robotics in Flexible Manufacturing: As connectivity increases, so do the requirements for functional safety.
(Image: Delta Electronics)

On Monday morning, a manufacturing cell produces aluminum housings for the automotive industry. Two days later, the same line is running a job for the medical technology sector. In between, robot programs are adjusted, grippers are swapped out, safety zones are reconfigured, and process parameters are reprogrammed. What was still the exception just a few years ago is now part of everyday life in many production environments. Production lines are designed modularly, products change more frequently, batch sizes are getting smaller, and production processes are becoming more dynamic.

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