Safety & Maintenance
Peter Nadolny Madsen CEO & Co-Founder Made4CNC ABOUT THE AUTHOR Peter Nadolny Madsen is CEO & Co-Founder of Made4CNC, a new Danish company that recently launched the world’s first completely automatic CNC door opening solution for robots.
Game-changing Benefits of the Safedoor SD100 System In a recent interview, Madsen explained the game-changing benefits of the Safedoor SD100 system and talked about Made4CNC’s ties to the renowned Danish collaborative robotics sector, coping with supply chain stresses, and why Denmark has become such a hotbed of innovation.
mounted on some sort of beam. The Safedoor 100’s linear actuator design eliminates these concerns which are commonly found in traditional, non-electric, DIY solutions. The SD100’s intelligent Safedoor Controller monitors all aspects of the door motion, ensuring smooth and reliable operation.
What is the Safedoor SD100? The Safedoor D100 is a complete solution for automating CNC machine door opening and closing. Its main hardware component is a box that’s easy to mount above the door of your existing CNC machine. Inside the box, a linear actuator provides the force required to open and close CNC machine doors. The Safedoor SD100’s linear actuator design helps to ensure consistent, durable, and safe operation. With a linear actuator, forces are confined within the actuator itself. Alternative systems require external forces to keep the belt tense and the pulleys must be
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What problem does it solve? The Safedoor SD100 an easy-to-use solution to a long-standing component feeding challenge in machine tending automation. Most of the world’s CNC machine applications require either an operator or a robot arm to physically open and close the machines’ heavy doors every few minutes. In fact, despite the increasing proliferation of automated solutions across all sorts of industrial applications, only a tiny fraction of the world’s CNC machines are automatically fed components. That’s a missed opportunity.
