Metals Production

The highest level of safety and people protection

✅ Our interlocks meet the highest level of safety. Many of our interlocks are certified independently by TUV to PLe. Our amGardpro range is even rated to PLe for guard locking, so there is no need to fit two interlocks on gates as amGardpro is so strong that one is enough.
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✅ Our customisability ensures you can create an application which meets your exact safety requirements to ensure your people get the highest level of protection.

✅ Talk to our safety experts to help you navigate complex safety standards and ensure your people get the best possible protection.

Long lasting equipment​

✅ Hot, oily, acidic, wet, and galvanic environments are very common in facilities both producing and processing metal. These environments often easily break equipment, incurring large replacement costs, downtime, and in the case of safety devices potentially dangerous situations.

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✅ Fortress has a range of heavy duty equipment, amGardpro, design to cope with such environments and last several years in very harsh metal processing plants. This will reduce your replacement costs significantly.​

Less downtime​

✅ In the metals industry machinery is very large. Whole body access is a common occurrence and due to the harsh environment and a large number of moving parts presence detection can be very difficult.

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✅ Ensuring you prevent unexpected start up is vital as someone maintaining or fixing a machine can be put in a lot of danger if this occurs.

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✅ This makes Fortress’ extracted personnel (or safety) key a great solution for the warehousing sector, the hazardous zone cannot be accessed until a key has been removed from Fortress’ interlock, this will then prevent the machine from being restarted while the operator has the personnel key with them.​

Safety systems for heavy machinery applications with no PLC​

✅ Often heavy machinery is not controlled by a PLC but is turned off and on using a large isolator when access is required. Other sources of energy may also need to be controlled before access.

✅ Trapped key systems allow complex logic to take place without a computer system, hazardous energy can be shut down in a specified sequence and used to obtain access to a hazardous space.​

Cheaper and faster installation​

✅ Long cable runs due to equipment being so large in the steel industry can incur hefty installation costs. 

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✅ Networked Fortress products can reduce any cable runs by large amounts and help save commissioning and installation time.​