Protection that works: Eequipment protective systems

Success also depends on service

At Füchtenkötter, service means more than taking measurements at location and preparing quotes and drawings. Füchtenkötter-service means complete assembly, and that means you can count on a professional installation from start to finish.

Dialog with the partner 

It often takes a long way to go from conception to realization. Because where specific requirements are concerned, technical and cost-effective feasibility is a key factor. Therefore, we particularly emphasize communication during the planning stage. Because when the planning is coherent, the implementation causes less problems.

Perfection in implementation  

When we install protective systems for automatic production facilities, for robots, for individual machines and – last but not least - for people, you can expect made-to-measure work. Because that’s the only protection that really works.

Füchtenkötter Equipment protective systems

Built in modular construction, the stable, newly-created equipment protective system offers a maximum of combination and structuring possibilities. Constant automation in the business world demands safe protection for people and machines.

The Füchtenkötter equipment protective system as a safety device is suitable for

• robot units
• production lines
• conveying systems
• paint and coating lines
• warehouse and operational equipment
• internal plant partitions and furthermore as
• protective devices or welding cabins.

Among the elements available, you can choose between:

• plate, coated
• plate, onsesided coating with anti-drumming
• welded hardware, coated
• acrylic glazing, clear and colored
• glare cover glazing, DIN-certified
• polycarbonate glazing, clear and colored, impact-proof and nonbreakable
• noise insulation units 

The option of large-area glazing ensures effective safety and supervision of the equipment.

Safety devices for  Equipment protective systems

We support you in terms of the essential safety devices for equipment protective systems. We provide you with complete concepts that conform to the applicable rules and regulations. The conduction of the safety facilities is based on the VDI-guideline No. 2853 with its cited and supplemental technical rules.

Our scope of supply includes:

• switching and control units for interlocking systems with robots
• self-monitoring limit switches for swing doors and sliding doors
• contact-free safety devices (safety light barriers, light curtains)
• mechanical and electrical limit switches that prevent unintentional enter into the safety areas
• self-monitoring range switches
• feed stations and parts-removal stations, positively actuated protective devices
• automatically operated glare shield units for welding robots
• alarm lights and buzzers 

Equipment protective systems with safety devices usually have to be adapted to structural conditions and require system-dependent design. Füchtenkötter GmbH supplies f. e. complete welding fumes exhaust and filter systems for welding robots, as well as the appropriate dust removal for fettling and welding cabins or ventilation systems for closed cabins.