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• Emergency Stop and Stop Controls. Emergency stop devices provide workers a means of stopping a device during an emergency by pushing a button or pulling a rope in order to prevent injury to personnel and material loss. If you do not see what you are looking for, Ask an Expert.

• The emergency stop function shall be reset by intentional human action. Resetting of the emergency stop function shall be operated by disengagement of an emergency stop device. As described above, human’s intention is given an importance to the resetting of emergency stop function. 3.2 Description concerning reset in the instruction manual

• E-Stop Station– An enclosure assembly including the E-Stop button, which can be mounted onto any surface where an emergency off switch should be located. The three most common types of Emergency Stops are: Push-pull– the operator is pushed in and locks into stop; released by pulling back. Indicated by the circle symbol on the head.

• They are not considered machine safe-guarding devices because an Emergency Stop neither detects nor prevents employee exposure to machine hazards; rather they initiate an action to stop hazardous motion when an employee recognizes a hazard and activates the Emergency Stop. In other words, an Emergency Stop is a secondary safety measure.

Emergency stop devices provide workers a means of stopping a device during an emergency by pushing a button or pulling a rope in order to prevent injury to personnel and material loss. If you do not see what you are looking for, Ask an Expert. Narrow Results. Stop Type.

Simply put, an emergency stop function is a function that is initiated by a human action and is intended to shut down equipment in the case of an emergency. Device Defi nition The emergency stop device is a manual control device. It is the method of initiating the emergency stop function.

E-Stop Station– An enclosure assembly including the E-Stop button, which can be mounted onto any surface where an emergency off switch should be located. The three most common types of Emergency Stops are: Push-pull– the operator is pushed in and locks into stop; released by pulling back. Indicated by the circle symbol on the head.

The actuator of an emergency stop device is the component that is actuated by a person. Examples of actuators include – mushroom-type push buttons, ropes, wires, etc.… For the purposes of this paper, however, any further references to an Emergency Stop will mean a mushroom-type push button.

• When SS1 is activated, the motor ramps to a controlled stop, and then the STO function is enabled. Safe Stop 2 is much like SS1 in that it maintains power to the motor in order to bring it to a controlled stop according to a pre-defined deceleration profile. The difference lies in what happens after the motor has reached standstill.