Safe, automatic door operation on industrial machines has continued to be a challenge for manufacturing plants. Customer feedback has indicated, if a door was automated at all, past solutions involving pneumatic pistons prove to be unsafe, unreliable and require lots of maintenance. These technical and safety challenges combined with the increased use of collaborative robots parts tending applications reinforces the need for an automated, safe and reliable method of solving machine door automation. The SIDOOR solution from Siemens is easy to install/setup/maintain and increases operator safety. Check out this video where Rich and Dan discuss these advantages in more detail.