The advent of modern laser beam sources, like fiber and disk laser beam sources, led to laser applications for economic mass production. Their laser beam is highly brilliant, highly energetic and invisible. In some laser applications, the beam can be oriented without spatial limitations. The risk potential is increased, compared to conventional systems and the conventional safety technology is extremely challenged. Conceivable claims are personal injuries like blindness, burns, long-tail claims or even death, as well as material damage. According to the standards, those claims should be avoided by laser safety barriers. Those barriers are merely a delay element to gain time until the beam breaks through a wall. A modern holistic safety concept for a laser application meets the requirements of the process and the definitions of the accepted error margins. Furthermore, risks need to be identified and rated with risk assessments. Those risks have to be reduced via economical concepts for custom tailored laser safety, for example with conventional passive safety components or otherwise modern active ones.
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ICALEO 2009: 28th International Congress on Laser Materials Processing, Laser Microprocessing and Nanomanufacturing
November 2–5, 2009
Orlando, Florida, USA
ISBN:
978-0-912035-59-8
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Systematic development of safe high performance laser applications – Knowing the limits of conventional systems
S. Braunreuther;
S. Braunreuther
1
iwb Institute of Machine Tools an Industrial Management Technische Universitaet Muenchen
, Boltzmannstraße 15, 85747 Garching, Germany
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S. Huber;
S. Huber
1
iwb Institute of Machine Tools an Industrial Management Technische Universitaet Muenchen
, Boltzmannstraße 15, 85747 Garching, Germany
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F. Oefele;
F. Oefele
1
iwb Institute of Machine Tools an Industrial Management Technische Universitaet Muenchen
, Boltzmannstraße 15, 85747 Garching, Germany
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A. Trautmann;
A. Trautmann
2
Ingenieurbuero Trautmann
, Theodor-Dombart-Straße 2, 80805 Muenchen, Germany
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M. F. Zaeh
M. F. Zaeh
1
iwb Institute of Machine Tools an Industrial Management Technische Universitaet Muenchen
, Boltzmannstraße 15, 85747 Garching, Germany
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Published Online:
November 01 2009
Citation
S. Braunreuther, S. Huber, F. Oefele, A. Trautmann, M. F. Zaeh; November 2–5, 2009. "Systematic development of safe high performance laser applications – Knowing the limits of conventional systems." Proceedings of the ICALEO 2009: 28th International Congress on Laser Materials Processing, Laser Microprocessing and Nanomanufacturing. ICALEO 2009: 28th International Congress on Laser Materials Processing, Laser Microprocessing and Nanomanufacturing. Orlando, Florida, USA. (pp. pp. 430-439). ASME. https://doi.org/10.2351/1.5061592
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