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Banner Engineering Corp.

Minneapolis, U.S.A.

www.bannerengineering.com • Tel: 763.544.3164

MMD-TA-11B / MMD-TA-12B Muting Module

Instruction Manual

System Installation

3.1.1 Muting Application Design

Following are typical applications where muting is used. See

Appendix B for more detailed information.
• Entry/Exit Applications. The muting devices are placed to

allow the entry or exit of a pallet or cart of work materials to

enter or exit a workstation without tripping the safety light

screen, and without allowing the entrance of personnel into the

hazardous area.

• Home or Station Applications. The muting devices must be

placed to mute the safety light screen only when a hazard does

not exist or is in another area — so that personnel are not

exposed to any hazard.

• Robot Load/Unload Station Application. The “Station” muting

application uses independent safety light screen circuits,

each with its own muting circuit and sensors to protect work

locations. When a robot is active in Station A, for example,

Station B safety light screen is muted.

• Turret Table Application. A “Turret Table” application is

similar to the Robot Load/Unload Station muting application,

except that any movement of the table ends the mute.

• Power Press Applications. The muting devices are placed

so that the mute is initiated only during the non-hazardous,

opening portion of the cycle (typically the machine upstroke).

WARNING . . .

Muting Limitations

Muting is allowed only during the non-
hazardous portion of the machine cycle (OSHA

1910.217(c)(3)(iii)(d), and ANSI B11.19.

WARNING . . .

Guarding Multiple

Areas

DO NOT safeguard multiple areas, with mirrors

or multiple sensing fields, if personnel can enter the
hazardous area while the System is muted, and not be
detected by supplemental safeguarding that will issue a
stop command to the machine (see Section 3.1.4, Pass-
Through Hazards).

3.1.2 Use of Corner Mirrors with Optical Safety Systems

Mirrors are typically used with safety light screens and single-/

multiple-beam safety systems to guard multiple sides of

a hazardous area. If the safety light screen is muted, the

safeguarding function is suspended on all sides. It must not

be possible for an individual to enter the guarded area without

being detected and a stop command issued to the machine

control. This supplemental safeguarding is normally provided

by an additional device(s) that remains active while the Primary

Safeguard is muted and could be interfaced with the SSI

input. Therefore, mirrors are typically not allowed for muting

applications.

3.1.3 Multiple Presence-Sensing Safety Devices (PSSDs)

Muting multiple PSSDs or a PSSD with multiple sensing fields

is not recommended unless it is not possible for an individual

to enter the guarded area without being detected and a stop

command issued to the machine control. As with the use of

corner mirrors (see above), if multiple sensing fields are muted

the possibility exists that personnel could move through a muted

area or access point to enter the safeguarded area without being

detected.
For example, in an entry/exit application where a pallet initiates

the mute cycle by entering a cell, if both the entry and the exit

PSSDs are muted, it may be possible for an individual to access

the guarded area through the “exit” of the cell. An appropriate

solution would be to mute the entry and the exit with separate

safeguarding devices.

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