(Rockwell Automation: Milwaukee) -- Machine builders and end-users seeking to simplify safety relay selection and reduce component inventory and life-cycle costs will benefit from the new family of Allen-Bradley Guardmaster safety relays from Rockwell Automation. Designed to meet new global functional safety standards, such as ISO 13849-1—“Safety of machinery—Safety-related parts of control systems—Part 1: General principles for design,” the new line of safety relays includes seven basic units capable of supporting a broad range of safety devices in a variety of applications, including single and multizone configurations.

“With the wide range of safety relay options available to today’s designers, selecting the right one to meet the specific demands of each application—and applicable standards—can pose a significant challenge,” says Camilo Aladro, global product manager of safety relays, Rockwell Automation. “The new Guardmaster family of safety relays helps simplify this task by delivering the functionality and flexibility for meeting most application and compliance demands, while reducing panel space requirements, eliminating hardware, and simplifying installation and maintenance.”

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