FREMONT, CA - Omron Scientific Technologies, Inc. has made available its new 2007-2008 Engineering Guide to Machine and Process Safeguarding. This 1500+ page, two-volume set is the most comprehensive machine and process safety product and technical reference guide available in the industry today. In addition to detailing Omron STI's complete family of machine and process safety solutions, the guide contains more than 225 pages of educational resource material featuring fully-illustrated articles on safety regulations and directives, risk assessment, types of protective measures, and background on safety technologies.

The guides feature a number of new machine safety solutions designed to improve plant safety and productivity, headlined by the new MiniSafe^® MS4800 series safety light curtains that offer unparalleled flexibility ideal for a wide array of OEM applications, F3SJ series safety light curtains for simplified safety light curtain selection and installation, as well as a DeviceNet-compatible safety network system that offers extremely flexible programming and unrivaled safety I/O expansion capability. Other new machine safety solutions are also available.

Featured safety technologies include networked safety controllers; safety laser scanners; perimeter access guards; safety light curtains; safety contact strips and edges; safety mats and area guards; safety interlock switches; safety monitoring relays; two-hand controls; enabling switches; process safeguards; hydraulic press brake guards; safeguards for cutting and turning machines; disconnect switches, motor starters, controls and accessories; and awareness signs. Each product category clearly details product features, options, application examples, specifications, schematic/system drawings, dimensions and ordering information. Most categories include a product selection guide.

About Omron STI

Omron Scientific Technologies, Inc. is a North American leading provider of automation safeguarding products and services. Omron STI provides safety products that are used to protect workers around machinery, automated equipment and industrial robots. Our products serve a wide variety of applications and markets, including semiconductor, automotive, electronics manufacturing, packaging and consumer markets.

Omron Scientific Technologies Inc., 6550 Dumbarton Circle, Fremont, CA 94555; 1-800-479-3658; (510) 608-3400; fax: (510) 744-1442; sales@sti.com; www.sti.com.