The Falcon Active Speed Door − press release Jan 2020

High speed roller shutter door for automation systems and laser processing applications

The Falcon Active Speed Door is a high-speed industrial roller shutter door designed for frequent high-speed traffic in manufacturing processes including laser processing applications.

It is ideal for indoor or outdoor installations using rapid incoming and outgoing logistics operations.

The door has a speed range of between 0.6 and 1.8 m/s providing an open/close time of less than 3 seconds.

The Falcon incorporates safety systems which can be application or industry specific. For example, the Falcon can use a PLC bump switch, a safe edge or photocell (connected to the customer’s PLC) to control the door.

Furthermore, the Falcon can be connected to Lasermet’s Laser Interlock Control System for use in laser processing manufacturing installations. In this case, the interlock only allows the laser to fire when the door is closed. Being a dual-channel controller, the laser system can be wired to satisfy the safety requirements in ISO 13849-1 (Safety of machinery) Performance Level ‘e’.

Optional active laser guarding can be incorporated for very high powered (multi-kW) lasers. This is called Laser Jailer and it is a failsafe laser protection system where the laser is shutdown if the laser beam inadvertently strikes the inside of the door.

Lasermet produce a range of doors for automation systems including guillotine doors, bi-parting motorised single or double doors, turntable doors.

Doors in action can be seen on these Youtube links…

Falcon Active Speed Door - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khk0vQgoZ5k
Motorised Double-double doors - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpGUkNKOB7s
Turntable doors - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXfcs86j50Y
Auto-sliding-door safety demo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ62n18aYHs
Guillotine doors - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmf_TmGc4Hc
Visit Lasermet industrial doors - https://www.lasermet.com/industrial-high-speed-doors.php





See the Falcon Active Speed Door at the MACH 2020 exhibition on stand 17-543