Gortite VF Automated Safety Door Designed to protect people from moving equipment, such as automation, without taking up as much space as traditional guarding, this roll-up vinyl-reinforced-polyester barrier opens and closes like a garage door.
What’s new? A variety of upgrades to the door, which Dynatect released nearly five years ago. Over the past year, the company has added a Lidar object-detection safety device, as well as a variable-frequency drive control that provides full control over the door’s acceleration and deceleration.
Benefits Operator safety, without sacrificing space. Compared with the space needs of light curtains, the door is more compact, creating the potential for better ergonomics. Because it creates a physical barrier, unlike a light curtain, the door can contain airborne debris, such as fluid splatter or smoke produced by a welding process.
Dynatect Manufacturing Inc., New Berlin, Wis., 262-786-1500, www.dynatect.com
Karen Hanna | Senior Staff Reporter
Senior Staff Reporter Karen Hanna covers injection molding, molds and tooling, processors, workforce and other topics, and writes features including In Other Words and Problem Solved for Plastics Machinery & Manufacturing, Plastics Recycling and The Journal of Blow Molding. She has more than 15 years of experience in daily and magazine journalism.
