What standards to follow in USA and Canada?
THE DOUBT: If you are a machinery manufacturer, you may be lost by the so many standards mentioned when discussing export to USA or Canada. The question yo...
UL and CSA Conformity
Assembly of Machinery
THE DOUBT: Shall a group of machinery be CE Marked? When can I say a certain group of machinery constitute an Assembly of Machinery and therefore, it must be CE...
Machinery Directive
The importance of layout analysis in risk assessment
EN ISO 11161 is the reference standard regarding the safety of the Integrated Machinery System (which henceforth in the article will be simply called IMS).
The...
Machinery Safety
The concept of SPAN-OF-CONTROL
The standard ISO 11161 of May 2007 introduces the concept of span of control, which identifies the predetermined portion of a machine under control of a specifi...
Machinery Safety
TABRA: A task based approach to risk assessement in Machinery
When applying ISO 12100 we tend to focus on the hazards that result form situations an operator or the maintenance team can incur to, while in North America the...
Machinery Safety
What has to be bonded, according to the NEC?
THE DOUBT: What is the rule to be followed in order to decide what has to be connected to a PE cable? What shall be Grounded and what shall be Bonded? We c...
Electrical Safety and Arc Flash Mitigation
FMEA, FMECA and FMEDA, what are the differences?
THE DOUBT:
The terms FMEA and FMECA may be common among component manufacturers, however the term FMEDA is only known in case the manufacturer has safety compo...
Machinery Safety
ISO 3691-4 : 2020
ISO 3691-4:2020 is the type-C standard of driverless industrial trucks. Examples of driverless industrial trucks (trucks of ISO 5053-1) can also be known as: &l...
Machinery Safety
Bonding, Earthing and Grounding, what is the difference?
THE DOUBT: What is the difference between Bonding, Earthing and Grounding? Is the motor frame grounded or bonded?
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Electrical Safety and Arc Flash Mitigation
Last edition of EN IEC 60079-10-1
In December 2021 the new edition of EN IEC 60079-10-1 has been published. All standards that conflict with EN IEC 60079-10-1:2021 must be withdrawn by 22/01/202...
ATEX Risk
Does the Manufacturer responsibility last for 10 years only?
THE DOUBT:
Is it true that the machinery manufacturer has responsibility, for the safety of its product, only for 10 years from the moment the machinery h...
Machinery Directive
Is the simbology defined by IEC 81346-2 compulsory?
IEC 81346-2 Standard: compulsory symbology and codes?
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Electrical Safety and Arc Flash Mitigation
