We are buying some duplicate machines from overseas (one from Asia and one from Europe). Both of these machines don't have pneumatic lockouts, safety relays, dump valves, etc.
I honestly don't know how they have gotten away with this up until now. Their excuse so far has been that we already have these machines in our plant. To me this makes it worst meaning someone just bought these off the shelf.
I think at a minimum you would need a pneumatic lockout, some safety monitored relays to dump the air on an E-stop and kill the power for the conveyor motors.
Is this a common thing nowadays? Are companies still making machines without dump valves, lockouts, safety relays, etc.?
I honestly don't know how they have gotten away with this up until now. Their excuse so far has been that we already have these machines in our plant. To me this makes it worst meaning someone just bought these off the shelf.
I think at a minimum you would need a pneumatic lockout, some safety monitored relays to dump the air on an E-stop and kill the power for the conveyor motors.
Is this a common thing nowadays? Are companies still making machines without dump valves, lockouts, safety relays, etc.?