SafeMove

SafeMove, ABB’s safety solution, provides greater flexibility, space savings, and cutting edge commissioning tools for higher productivity at a lower total cost of investment. All this, combined with unsurpassed safety, enables closer collaboration between robots and factory workers while reducing total investment by up to 30%.

Features and benefits

First introduced in 2008, SafeMove performs safety certified monitoring of robot motion, tool and standstill supervision as well as speed limitation.

Working hand-in-hand with our customers to develop innovative robot safety technologies, ABB introduces SafeMove. It allows for the creation of more efficient and flexible production scenarios, and integrates safety fieldbus connectivity into ABB’s IRC5 robot controller family.

Enables lean, flexible, & economic robot solutions
Designed to keep humans and equipment completely safe
Saves floor space • Facilitates human/robot collaboration
Enables hazardous applications such as X-ray inspections and laser cutting

Optimal balance between hardware and software - SafeMove‘s functionality has evolved from hardware to software.

Supported robots and controllers - Able to support all robot mounting angles, SafeMove is available for use with the majority of ABB’s robot and controllers.

Collaboration - With SafeMove the tools to facilitate collaboration between man and machine are a reality.

RobotStudio® - Safety configurations are now faster and more efficient. Taking full advantage of our premier offline programming tool, RobotStudio.

Faster commissioning times - SafeMove includes a set of easy-to-use tools for fast setup, validation and commissioning.