Luiz Shida is a marketing specialist at IDEC Corporation and responsible for safety product marketing. Since joining IDEC Japan HQ more than seven years ago, he has become certified as a safety sub-assessor in Japan.

IDEC family of HR5S category 2 safety relay modules

Training Strategies

Focus on safety standards when creating equipment

Elements of design

Luiz Shida

May 13, 2020

Machinery and OEM designers know that building safety into their equipment is a fundamental requirement. To ensure a consistent approach, the ISO 13849 standard provides guidance for machinery control systems that are applied to provide safety functions for machinery.

How to de-energize equipment

Force guided relays maintain machine guarding circuit integrity

Luiz Shida

September 9, 2019

Safety circuits used in machine guarding applications incorporate devices such as sensors and relays to de-energize equipment if any hazardous condition is detected. These conditions normally involve a machine guard not being closed, a presence sensor detecting personnel in an unsafe area or the triggering of an emergency stop function.

Always in the forefront of our minds is keeping the workplace safe and protecting employees. Learn how to establish steps that you can take to reduce worker exposure during a pandemic.

ISHN Magazine

2020 May

Among the articles in the May 2020 issue of ISHN Magazine, we talk to some EHS experts on the state of the safety industry amid the pandemic, detail the benefits of a Respiratory Protection Program, look at how portable gas monitor technology has evolved, and much more.

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