Thanks for your replies, Steve and Gordon. Gordon, you have done quite the extensive research on this topic! Thank you for sharing your notes. However, after assessing the options I'm now aware of, th

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Ryan, I'm working on a similar project. I have some notes on our wiki that you might find helpful. We're about to test a system made by a local community makerspace (Nova Labs in Reston, VA). For info

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Ryan, I remember Dan Brown was working on one as well when we had SSMC 2017 @ Northwestern. During the conference we all tried it out and it looked very hopeful but I have not heard anything more sinc

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Thank you Ben(s) and Lewis. The Fabman system looks pretty cool, but appears to be Austrian in origin. Penn State has very strict rules about data storage and management by third party vendors, and re

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Hi Ryan My first set up used a Liftmaster card swipe that would toggle the the safety control circuit or a contactor for the power. You would have to program each individual card for the machines the

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Ryan, I don't remember what it's called, some Yale students at the Yale ISAM conference were working on an access control system that they were trying to turn into a business. Anyone on here know if t

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Hi Ryan, We looked at Fabman.io a couple of years ago. They do exactly what you’re looking for in terms of access control, scheduling, reporting, etc. The draw back for us was the lack any university-

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This is very helpful, Leland. Thank you. Best,

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Ryan, Look at safety spot they have been slowly developing a system that recent demonstrations is close as functional as I have looked for in 20 years. The device control at the machine level from a q

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Hello all, I'm currently researching tool/equipment access controls and am not coming up with many compelling solutions. If you have any experience with a system that controls usage by requiring a swi

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Thanks for the feedback, everyone. Jon: I like the idea of "training and understanding." It takes longer than slapping on a policy, but students learn the why and they learn how to manage their own ri

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Other than being cautious about hair and dangling clothes I never considered the spindle sander to be a very risky tool until a student sanding with a spindle not much smaller than the hole in the ply

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Other than the already in-place guidelines for the spindle sander, which does not differentiate between innies and outies i wasn’t aware there might be some special issues to consider. I kbow the sand

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We handle this mostly with training and understanding rather than strict policy. The problem is most likely to occur when the enclosed area is far from the workpiece's center of mass, when the spindle

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Hi All, I was curious what policies you have in place for your spindle sanders--specifically the sanding of enclosed or mostly-enclosed shapes. If you permit sanding inside enclosed shapes, are there

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Kody, Oh okay....... Ga Tech is also not allowing undergraduates on campus this summer. We also have a ramp up plan, which includes Graduate Students and staff. If you have cameras that stream video,

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Steven, This question is not around COVID interactions or spread, it is around how my campus is going to allow reactivation of research. I typically have student worker(s) that work for me during the

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It's my opinion that working alone presents a much greater risk. There are simple actions we can take to prevent the spread of Covid-19. (face masks and cleaning ) Steven

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HI Kody, I am in the same position right now and will be for another month. Here at the University of Calgary we have a program that is link with our security staff. We let them know via an online sit

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Joe, Our main office is in a completely different building. Our shop is in our lab building where people come and go all the time. I am the only person that has a permanent office in our lab building.

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