Siemens Aktiengesellschaft

Michael Lehner

Klaus Aufschneider

Manfred Prölss

The invention relates to a safety-related switching device () which is equipped with an electromagnetic coil (), a control unit () and a first switching means (). The first switching means () is designed to activate and deactivate the electromagnetic coil (). Moreover, the first switching means () is designed to receive a coil control signal (), a monitoring signal () and a first higher-level control signal (). The safety-related switching device () also has a receiver unit () for receiving an external control signal (). The receiver unit () is designed to generate the first higher-level control signal () and a second higher-level control signal () from the external control signal (). The control unit () is designed to receive the second higher-level control signal ().

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Kohlberg, Germany

Michael Lehner