Omron Corporation

Keiichi Teranisi

Toshiyuki Nakamura

Takehiko Hioka

Naoaki Ikeno

Yasuki Yoda

Isao Yamashita

A safety master configured to communicate with a plurality of safety slaves over a safety field network or with a plurality of safety local I/O units connected by a safety back plane bus of the safety master, wherein each of the plurality of safety slaves and safety local I/O units allow connection to safety I/O devices in a plurality of cell equipment, and wherein the safety master receives a status signal indicating a 'safe state' or an 'unsafe state' related to cell equipment from each of the corresponding plurality of safety slaves or safety local I/O units, and controls operation/stop of cell equipment by executing an interlock operation program with the received status signal as an input to output an operation instruction signal.

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Numazu, Japan

Keiichi Teranisi