Machinery safety: Ensure maximum safety for your machines and operators

Your safety in our focus

Ensuring safety, building confidence. SMC is an innovative, reliable and strong partner for pneumatic and electrical automation technology. We provide our customers with comprehensive safety validated solutions throughout a plant’s lifecycle, ensuring flexibility, productivity, and user safety for all machine types, from simple designs to highly complex systems.

Our ISO 13849-compliant safety components and innovative solutions are built to achieve the highest possible level of risk minimisation, leading to significant improvements in your Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE).

Reduced downtime, a safer work environment, and streamlined operations are just a few of the benefits you can expect from SMC’s robust machinery safety solutions.

SMC - Your local partner in machine safety:

Our team of safety experts is readily available to answer any questions and provide local support. With a large customer care team and wide distribution network across Europe, we ensure you have the resources you need to implement and maintain your safety systems.

Focus on safety between man and machine!

Select SMC product solutions for defined safety functions

Use PneuSAFE, our free software tool, to easily choose the right ISO 13849-compliant product solution for your safety-related application. PneuSAFE offers you TÜV verified circuits, parts lists, and instructions for the most common safety functions and applications, saving you time and ensuring compliance.

PneuSAFE – your toolbox for safety solutions

See for yourself how SMC can assist you with 6 tailor-made machinery safety services

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Clement Pucher | Manager European Working Group Safety Technology

“Machinery Safety is an integral and important part of the development process of machinery, in its positive impact an essential quality feature and a source of real competitive advantages.
SMC supports you as a competent partner in the implementation of reliable and economic solutions and the creation of tangible added value.”

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Safety related information

SISTEMA library and technical documentation

Safety Components

Discover our Safety Components certified according to the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC. By clicking on the images, you can access the configurator to select the most suitable variants for your application and further information about the product.

Valves

Throughout our entire valve portfolio, you will find some that are able to control the flow direction with the addition of a feature that makes the machine more reliable and, therefore, safer. Here are some of them.

Our most popular SY valve specially for safety applications

We have several variations of the SY valve that are specially designed to be used in specific safety circuits.

SY-X350 series Spring return spool SY-X31 series Pilot air control with spool position detection
SY-X25 series Spool with detent SY-X310 series Pilot air control with pressure detection option
SY-X30 series Spool position detection

Please see the links to the respective leaflets below.

Airline equipment

SMC puts a wide range of pressure regulators at your disposal to control the line pressure of your pneumatic facility. With a modular design to be placed together with other air treatment components or clustered in a manifold to manage different pressure levels at the same time. Choose the one that bests fits you.

Flow control equipment

SMC provides a wide range of flow control valves for direct mounting into the cylinder port. As such, this eliminates the problem of a tube bursting and makes the machine safer. This section also includes residual pressure release valves to release trapped air in the case of a jam. Therefore making maintenance procedures safer.

Check valves

Check valves are usually placed in safety circuits. They are key elements in reliability, making the flow unidirectional when required.

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