Innovative Safety Solutions with ABB's SafeMove2

ABB has recent­ly launched an unri­valed safe­ty cer­ti­fied soft­ware that increas­es over­all pro­duc­tiv­i­ty for up to a 30% reduc­tion in total invest­ment cost! SafeMove2 pro­vides increased flex­i­bil­i­ty, greater space sav­ings, numer­ous cut­ting edge com­mis­sion­ing tools, and even more improved safe­ty func­tions such as safe speed lim­its, safe stand­still mon­i­tor­ing, safe axis ranges and posi­tion, and ori­en­ta­tion super­vi­sion. These safe­ty fea­tures are inte­grat­ed direct­ly into the robot con­troller to encour­age the devel­op­ment of inno­v­a­tive robot appli­ca­tions. There is a safe­ty field­bus con­nec­tiv­i­ty inte­grat­ed into ABB’s IRC5 robot con­troller fam­i­ly as well as the IRC5 Sin­gle, Com­pact, and Paint controllers.

In addi­tion, SafeMove2 pro­vides the nec­es­sary tools to facil­i­tate col­lab­o­ra­tion between man and machine. It decreas­es the need for fences or cages as it allows close col­lab­o­ra­tion between robots and fac­to­ry work­ers. SafeMove2 is able to restrict the robot motion to sole­ly what is need­ed for a spe­cif­ic appli­ca­tion. Safe­ty sen­sors can be incor­po­rat­ed into the work­cell to pro­vide imme­di­ate detec­tion of a worker’s pres­ence. These sen­sors enable the super­vi­sion and mon­i­tor­ing of the robot’s speed while the work­er is present and then quick­ly restart­ing work after the work­er is gone. This ulti­mate­ly results in less down­time and high­er pro­duc­tiv­i­ty gains. 

This advanced soft­ware also increas­es the speed up the com­mis­sion­ing work­flow for a faster set­up and val­i­da­tion, as well as for the cre­ation of more effi­cient and flex­i­ble pro­duc­tion scenarios.

ABB is doing an incred­i­ble job of keep­ing up with the fast-paced and quick­ly advanc­ing indus­tri­al robot­ic world by devel­op­ing pro­grams, such as SafeMove2, to enhance col­lab­o­ra­tion solu­tions, pro­duc­tiv­i­ty, and safe­ty. Solu­tions like these help to sup­port the advance­ment and inte­gra­tion of future tech­nolo­gies, such as the Indus­tri­al Inter­net of Things by pro­vid­ing ful­ly inte­grat­ed, flex­i­ble soft­ware solutions. 

It is easy to see that the fac­to­ry of the future is chang­ing. ABB con­tin­ues to stay at the fore­front of devel­op­ing tech­nol­o­gy, ulti­mate­ly help­ing to reshape the way the world con­quers automa­tion man­u­fac­tur­ing with its inno­v­a­tive safe­ty solu­tions. Con­tact us online or at 877−762−6881 to get start­ed today!