Encoders redundant

High performance levels and lower costs

For the implementation of a safety function in accordance with e.g. Performance Level d or SIL 3, not all components necessarily have to meet the safety requirements directly. Often the required safety level can be achieved with redundant information and the appropriate control system. In concrete terms, our redundant standard encoders provide diverse (magnetic and optical) signals that are generated completely independently of each other, but can still be correlated with each other. Even the supply voltage is available separately for each sensor unit. Almost all safety-related control or monitoring systems have conventional inputs. This makes it possible to use inexpensive standard components with high-quality redundant encoders from a process-controlled assembly and to achieve the required safety level cost-effectively.

MTTFd - for your planning

To be able to use non-certified devices in your application to perform safety-related tasks, you must observe a few things. For example, during mechanical assembly, you must ensure that the two shafts to be connected to each other have a form fit in order to reliably prevent slippage. The MTTFd value (Mean Time To Dangerous Failure) also plays a major role. We will provide you with this value.