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The TCA company is winner of the campaign SafetyPLUS 4 x 4 Sick 2007
10/03/2008
March 10, 2008
SafetyPLUS 4 x 4 of Sick campaign already has a winner: the Australian Capital territory, official distributor of the brand in Murcia.
TCA, SL is a company that has more than 20 years of experience, specialized in marketing, implementation, advice and support of equipment and systems for industrial automation.
The campaign SafetyPLUS of Sick, an effort to convey the company's capacity to offer global solutions in the field of industrial safety, has generated a host of new applications.
For its distribution network Sick convened last year the campaign 4 x 4 which consisted in the realization of projects under the SafetyPLUS range. The projects were valued by a Guild of experts of security within the Sick signature at the end of the year 2007. TCA took first place by turnover and application type representing its project with the company Crown packaging, manufacturer of canning jars.
The rector, Félix Faura, received Isidro Gomez, Manager of Control technologies and drives, SL (TCA), Joan Escolá (Director of distribution) and Dieter Graner (CFO) of Sick for the signature of the grant.
The application
The susceptible industrial sectors to risks of incidents are those related to the machining industry. Working with troqueladoras machines, punching machines, lathes, or strawberries is particularly dangerous and any organizational or technical means to reduce the number of incidents has to be taken into account by all those companies that develop their activity in this area.
One of the existing means for the protection of the workers who handle this kind of machines, where a movable part of the same can be interrupted at any time a dangerous phase, are photoelectric barriers for industrial safety. They may only be used how System Assistant when the operation of such machinery be continuous or automatic.