Ghyman, I am very sorry to hear of the death of a friend.
I am not convinced however that e-stop is bad based on that problem. I have seen many situations where it did good. I personally work in very large machining. My machine, a horizontal Ingersoll, has nearly 30 feet of "X" travel. It has multiple interchangable spindle units. One day I accidentaly cycled started my machine while in a very bad situation--kind of hard to explain the real situation--. (The remote pendant can start the machine). Without the E-stop I would have been toast my friend. Now, this may be an rare situation but for me, it only took that one time. I'm not saying anything is 100% but I personally think it serves more good than bad.
Just my two cents
-AJames |