Simple sharing the collected data
Detecting, collecting and monitoring your industrial safety data
With the SDM (Safety Data Monitoring) service, Phoenix Contact’s Digital Safety Solutions offers a turnkey installation on a machine, or on an industrial plant, of a data detection system connected with the installed devices and safety features.
Collecting the safety data is a preliminary step to get them stored and move forward with useful analisys to better understand what happens on a machine/plant. The acquisition of the data coming from the machine/plant can be in-house or remotely, in fully compliance with the Security standards.
The correct monitoring and understanding of the data can help machine operators to respect the Functional Safety parameters for the used devices or to define planned/predictive maintenance activites.
Tailor-made service
Based on the customer needs, our support can be defined and limited to the following areas:
Data analysis according to customer needs
Warning in case of anomalies or approach to the limits of B10d or T10d
Data driven suggestions according to the safety trends
Support for the necessary maintenance operations
How to take advantage of the collected data
The availability of the safety data allows almost an unlimited series of additional analyzes, all of them are able to influence the operators’ safety and the attention to the same of the supervisors
The data processing can also help to understand machinery safety operation’s drifts (for example, a shelter that opens more and more frequently is a clear indication to check that part of the machine), allowing the signaling and the historicization of actions exceeding safety devices’ regular usage.
The correct reading of the collected data allows the definition of optimized production cycles, without modifying the machinery’s safety level, identifying attempts of fraudulent tampering on the protection devices whenever a cyclical action is detected.
The SDM system also allows to define a virtual model regarding the machinery’s safety operations, in order to evaluate the drifts between real operation and the model.
The limits set on the basis of the acquired data allow to provide a safety alert on the conditions that could converge towards a risk that is not acceptable for the operators.