BladeStop Features and Benefits
Offering market leading performance with the fastest blade stopping time on the market, Scott’s BladeStop™ has redefined bandsaw safety culture in multiple industries for over a decade. The innovative “dual-sensing” operator monitoring system provides second-to-none protection for its users by utilising the following technologies:

1) GloveCheck™ Vision Sensing – This vision system was developed by Scott as a solution to significantly reduce risk of serious injury. Our high-speed vision system is continuously monitoring both the colour of the operators glove along with their movements; if their trajectory is calculated to result in contact with the blade, the BladeStop™ Braking-Mechanism stops the blade before an operator comes into contact with it. This results in most operators walking away from the saw without a scratch.

2) Body-Sensing Technology – A revolutionary system which monitors not just the operators’ fingers, but their entire body. Our advanced control system is continuously looking out for contact between the operators’ skin and the saw blade, even when not in direct line of sight on our GloveCheck™ system. The innovative sensing system can distinguish the difference between human flesh and the product being processed. It is this sensing system, paired with the fastest stopping time on the market, which makes it possible for the operator to walk away from an incident with a minor cut rather than a serious amputation.

If our GloveCheck™ system is considered as the equivalent of a “seat-belt”, our Body-Sensing system can be considered equivalent to an “airbag”. Where operator safety is concerned, the benefits of dual functional redundancy is where BladeStop™ distinguishes itself as a market leader with over 1,500 units protecting operators around the world daily. BladeStop™ is available in three models, suitable for a range of processing requirements in a wide variety of industries.

To summarise the benefits BladeStop™ will provide: -
- Unique Dual-Sensing operator monitoring system.
- Ultra-fast BladeStop™ Braking-Mechanism – Fastest on the market.
- Microcontroller based control unit – Responds within a millisecond.
- Fast restart - Ready to cut again less than a minute after a stopping event.
- Sustainable - No need to change the blade after a stopping event.
- Quality, Hygiene and Safety – Designed to conform with international standards.
- Convenience – Body-sensing achieved with a single quick-release operator strap.
- Simple and Straightforward – No complexity or unnecessary distractions for operators.
- Fit for purpose – Designed for use in industrial applications with end user in mind.

Stop time specifications: -
- Sensing time < 1 millisecond
- Blade stand-still time < 10 milliseconds*

* As tested on a well maintained and cleaned saw.