Synopsis
Post pandemic, India’s industrial automation landscape is rewriting the rulebook, blending cutting-edge tech with grassroots ingenuity. Forget cookie-cutter robotics—think AI-powered micro factories, or electronics hubs deploying self-optimizing cobots that learn regional assembly quirks in real time. A game-changer? The rise of various testbeds is enabling near-zero latency automation in remote factories, while emerging startups are democratizing AI-driven predictive maintenance for India’s 63 million MSMEs through vernacular interfaces and pay-as-you-go models. The government is pushing more towards manufacturing excellence, and India’s Industrial Automation Market is estimated at USD 17.28 billion this year. Near to 2030, it is expected to reach USD 33.64 billion, at 14.26%. Amidst the growth, lies the rising adoption of industrial control systems, field devices, industry specific applications and advanced machines. Operational agility, and cost-effective solutions while maintaining technological adoption is very crucial these days. Along the way, comes the immediate need of safety and security in operations, implementations. Any act, performing under unnoticed and ignored functionality increases chances of risks, which can result in serious damages to both, humans and machines.
Advancements in Safety Technology
India’s swift embrace of automation is unveiling critical, sector-specific hazards, spurring advancements in safety technology. In the packaging industry, high-speed machinery in film-wrapping lines poses entanglement risks, potentially leading to severe injuries or fatalities if humans interact with these unsafe machines. Similarly, in robotics, unpredictable cobot-human collisions and cybersecurity breaches in robotic arms handling sensitive tasks can have detrimental effects. Assessing the impact force of robotic arms is crucial to prevent accidents. In intralogistics, blind-spot collisions in densely packed storage aisles are a concern, especially with automated guided vehicles moving freely. Ensuring their safety and security is paramount. In the automotive industry, mechanical presses can cause crushing injuries in stamping units and die-setting errors can lead to explosive failures. The electronics and semiconductor industries face hazards like electrostatic discharge frying microchips and hydrofluoric acid exposure during wafer cleaning. As a result, plants and manufacturing facilities are increasingly prioritizing safety and protection procedures to mitigate these risks.
Workplace Safety
As manufacturing plants confront the critical challenges posed by industrial automation, safeguarding machinery, production lines, and facilities from both internal and external threats is becoming increasingly vital. Each organization must secure areas against unauthorized access, ensuring that machines are protected from human interference as well. It’s not enough to just protect humans from machines; equal emphasis must be placed on industrial security and mechanical and electrical safety. Here, Pilz’s safe control technology, sensor technology and security solutions—which preserve workplace safety through a variety of Safety Products—play a crucial part. With the operating mode selection and access permission system PIT mode fusion, the modular safety gate system including new Product Development of Pilz such as PSENmgate, PSENmlock mini, and PSENslock 2, the small controllers PNOZmulti 2 along with Compact and Standalone controller PNOZ m C0, and the Security Bridge firewall, Pilz offers a solution that not only takes the machinery safety requirements into account but also defines permissions for service engineers as well as other persons and roles.
PILZ’s Contribution
With Identification and Access Management, Pilz offers a wide range of products and software, as well as tailor-made solutions for access management challenges faced by customers. Pilz offers safety and security functions in one system, with the operating mode selection and access permission system PITmode that controls access permissions to machines. IO-Link Safety satisfies the wish for flexible automation. With the safe, standardised point-to-point communication IO-Link Safety, you can integrate sensors up to field level – quickly and conveniently. At the same time, IO-Link Safety offers new possibilities for data diagnostics, thus helping to optimise your processes. Benefit from our expertise as a significant partner and developer of the IO-Link Safety standard. Pilz offers you the complete system with master and sensors and supports you with the integration of IO-Link Safety into your application!
Our extensive services cover machinery safety, workplace safety, international compliance, consulting for industrial security. This includes everything from risk assessment and safety validation to comprehensive engineering services. We ensure that all the conformity assessments are in line with the Machinery directive and EU Machinery Regulation. We provide machine builders and factories with services including risk assessment, safety concept, safety design, system implementation, and safety validation to help them maintain machine safety during the complete lifespan. This aids the machine constructor in guaranteeing the security of his machines. With our safety systems, businesses can rest assured that their personnel and operations are protected from potential hazards. Our team of safety consultants have certified machinery safety experts (CMSE®), Certified Experts in CE Marking (CECE), Certified Experts in Functional Safety (CEFS), and certified experts for security in automation (CESA). These professionals are having more than a decade of hands-on experience on most complex machines. Also, our safety consultants are actively involved in MED 40 committee of BIS, focusing on effective implementation of industrial safety standards.
In a world where machines are growing smarter and faster, the measure of true progress is not just in how efficiently we produce-but in how safely we do it. Pilz stands at the heart of this thought, not as a mere supplier of safety solutions but as a navigator through the intricate web of global compliance, risk assessment and human-machine coexistence. We don’t just help you tick off safety checkboxes; we help you build a safety culture that speaks fluently in the languages of Indian as well as international standards, while translating them into real-world impact on your shop floor. It is evident from our practices that Pilz doesn’t just help you keep pace, we help you set the pace, safely and securely.
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