Food & Drink Process & Packaging Issue 24 2019 | Page 17

A recent addition in the area of high- bay storage devices at WITRON is the Leuze DDLS 500 data transmission photoelectric sensor with EtherCAT interface. 2019 GIT Security Award for SPG Not only WITRON and Leuze electronic as the inventor of Smart Process Gating swear by the new SPG technology. A jury of experts with representatives from “Nothing leaves our factory before we BHE, TÜV, VDMA, ZVEI, integrators and have thoroughly tested a new component users voted “Smart Process Gating” or new technology ourselves. We only to the top 10 of the 2019 GIT Security recommend solutions to our customers Award. Readers of the GIT Sicherheit, GIT that have proven themselves in practical Security and messtech drives Automation tests – that’s our philosophy,” says trade magazines and their online Schmid: “The Smart Process Gating communities even chose the SPG muting principle also had to withstand a number process, which completely forgoes the of hardness tests. need for signal-emitting sensors, as the Today, it convinces us on all counts and is used as a standard solution in projects with material flow.” gold winner of the award, thereby also nominating it for the “Best of Industry Award 2019.” GIT Award winner "Smart Process Gating," based on the MLC 530 safety light curtains from Leuze electronic, is nominated for the "Best of Industry Award." Leuze www.smart-sensor-business.com FDPP - www.fdpp.co.uk 17