Rockford Systems, LLC., a provider of machine safeguarding products and services, is helping manufactures achieve additional machine safeguarding protection with a complete line of pressure-sensitive safety mats and accessories.
Using weight sensors, pressure-sensitive safety mats detect the presence of workers, vehicles, or production materials and trigger an emergency stop that removes power from hazardous machinery, such as robotic welders, water jets, tube benders, conveyors, CNCs, and other machines. Only by removing pressure from the mat and switching on the control unit will power be restored to the machine. When installed correctly, the mats ensure an operator or passer-by cannot reach into the point-of-operation hazard prior to the machine coming to a complete stop, therefore preventing shearing or crushing injuries.