It is a software tool designed in line with international standards to monitor the safety components of a machine during their working life. By importing projects produced using RASWIN, users can check the safety project automatically and obtain status reports. The tool monitors the status of the safety functions in real time and, if unauthorised modifications are found, it automatically informs maintenance, engineering and safety hygiene managers. It schedules preventive maintenance, indicating the remaining lifetime of the safety components, estimating the real PL of safety functions, and controlling programmable or configurable elements and the undue use of devices, among other functions.
ISM stands for Industrial Safety Manager, it’s a software and hardware package designed to monitor safety devices lifetimes. In addition, through the use of plugins, ISM can be extended to communicate with any other devices and retrieve its data for integrating it into its own database. Currently ISM can connect and retrieve data from any device using generic Modbus TCP, with robots from Universal Robots (using its own real time data exchange protocol), a custom protocol is also provided, it allows the user to control safety parameters for UR robots which are not exposed by the default UR implementations.