Industrial Safety Fencing and Interlocked Gate Systems for Machine Guarding

Vector-Safety designs, supplies, installs, and integrates industrial machine guarding fencing, modular safety panels, robot cell fencing, perimeter guarding, and interlocked machine access gates for manufacturing and automated equipment throughout Atlanta, Georgia, the Southeast, and across the United States.

Our modular machine guarding systems can be configured around industrial robots, robotic cells, conveyors, automated production equipment, CNC machinery, assembly systems, palletizing equipment, automated material handling systems, AS/RS systems, AGVs, AMRs, and other hazardous machinery where physical separation is needed between personnel and machine hazards.

Vector-Safety provides more than fencing. We can complete the entire safeguarding project—from machine risk assessment, layout and CAD design through equipment selection, safety-distance evaluation, installation, safety interlock integration, safety PLC programming, functional safety engineering, and final validation.

Our industrial wire mesh machine guarding panels provide a strong, highly visible physical barrier around machinery while allowing operators and maintenance personnel to see the equipment and process.

Velox wire mesh panels are constructed from 2-inch × 2-inch × 8-gauge welded wire mesh. Unlike many conventional framed fencing systems, the panels use formed reinforcing ridges to add rigidity while reducing unnecessary frame weight. The unframed design also allows panels to be modified in the field when machinery, columns, conveyors, utilities, or other obstacles require a custom fit. 

The panels are also non-progressive, allowing an individual machine guarding panel to be removed or replaced without dismantling the adjoining fence line. That is particularly useful where equipment requires periodic maintenance, expansion, or reconfiguration. 

Published panel dimensions include 66-inch-high main panels and 24-inch extension panels, allowing systems to be configured around nominal 6-foot and 8-foot guarding heights. Standard published panel widths range from 10 inches through 94 inches, giving designers considerable flexibility when laying out machine enclosures. The standard 6-foot configuration provides a published 6-inch sweep above the floor. 

Common applications include: robot safety fencing, robotic work-cell guarding, conveyor perimeter guarding, CNC machine enclosures, automated assembly lines, palletizing cells, material-handling equipment, packaging machinery, welding cells, and industrial automation.

For applications where physical separation is required while maintaining greater process visibility or containment, the Velox system is also available with clear Lexan panels. 

Clear machine guarding panels are particularly useful where operators need an unobstructed view of an automated process while remaining physically separated from hazardous motion.

Vector-Safety can incorporate clear polycarbonate machine guarding into complete perimeter systems or combine transparent sections with wire mesh or solid panels depending on the machine and hazard.

Applications can include robot cells, CNC equipment, automated assembly equipment, machining processes, production lines, inspection systems, and areas where process visibility is important.

Velox systems are also available with solid sheet-metal panels for applications where an open wire mesh barrier may not be the preferred guarding method. 

Solid machine guarding can provide separation where the risk assessment identifies hazards beyond personnel access alone, such as applications where additional containment or visual isolation may be desirable.

Vector-Safety can incorporate solid panels with wire mesh, transparent guarding, custom fabricated components, and access gates to create hybrid machine guarding systems tailored to the equipment.

This is especially valuable because we can tie it into your fabrication capability:

When a standard modular panel cannot solve the entire application, Vector-Safety can design and fabricate custom steel, aluminum, polycarbonate, CNC-machined, or 3D-printed guarding components to complete the enclosure.

Velox modular machine guarding can be configured in 6-foot and 8-foot overall system heights. Standard primary panels are 66 inches high, with the published 6-foot configuration providing a 6-inch floor sweep. An 8-foot system can use an 8-foot post with an additional 24-inch panel above the primary panel. 

Vector-Safety determines guarding height, floor clearance, distance from the hazard, panel configuration, and access requirements based on the machine risk assessment and the specific hazard being controlled rather than simply selecting a fence height from a catalog.

That distinction matters.

OSHA requires guarding methods to protect employees from hazards created by points of operation, rotating parts, ingoing nip points and other hazardous machine motion.  ISO 14120 addresses the design and construction of fixed and movable machine guards, while ISO 13857 addresses safety distances intended to prevent people from reaching hazard zones through or around protective structures. 

Velox offers four primary post configurations allowing a machine guarding system to follow straight runs, corners, irregular layouts, and access points:

Line/Corner Posts support straight fencing runs and standard 90-degree corners.

Adjustable Corner Posts allow the machine safety fencing to follow non-90-degree angles and irregular machine layouts.

Swing Door Posts support personnel access gates and machine access points.

Slide Door Posts support sliding access gates where a swinging gate would interfere with production space or equipment. 

Published post heights are 6 feet and 8 feet, with heavy-duty anchors supplied with the posts. Standard Velox posts use a high-visibility safety-yellow finish. 

This flexibility is particularly valuable for robot cells and automated manufacturing systems, where guarding frequently needs to route around conveyors, electrical cabinets, columns, tooling, material-transfer points and operator stations.

Vector-Safety can design machine guarding gates as part of the machine's safety-related control system, rather than treating the gate as nothing more than a physical door.

Depending on the risk assessment and required safety function, access gates can be integrated with:

safety interlock switches, guard-locking devices, safety relays, safety PLCs, emergency-stop systems, monitored reset functions, safe-stop functions, and other functional-safety controls.

Velox doors are available with standard mechanical latching, and the manufacturer also offers electric shut-off locking options.  Vector-Safety can engineer the safeguarding system around the machine's actual hazards, access requirements, stopping performance and required safety function.

Velox offers single and double swing gates for personnel and equipment access.

Single swing doors are published in:

3-foot and 4-foot widths
6-foot and 8-foot heights
Left- or right-hand configurations

Published clear openings are approximately 34¼ inches for the 3-foot gate and 46¼ inches for the 4-foot gate. Six-foot gates provide clear overhead access, while the published 8-foot configuration incorporates an overhead structural section. 

Double swing doors increase access for larger equipment and material movement, with published 6-foot and 8-foot nominal widths and clear openings of approximately 70¼ and 94¼ inches. 

These can be used for robot cell access, maintenance entrances, tooling changes, forklift access, conveyor service, automated equipment maintenance and production-line access.

Vector-Safety designs and installs modular perimeter guarding for:

industrial robots and robot cells, collaborative robot applications where physical guarding is required, palletizing robots, welding robots, pick-and-place systems, automated assembly cells, CNC tending robots, automated packaging equipment, conveyors, transfer systems, AS/RS equipment, automated warehouses, AGVs, AMRs and integrated material-handling systems.

The current ANSI/A3 R15.06-2025 standard specifically addresses industrial robot applications and robot cells and places increased emphasis on functional-safety requirements and risk assessment.