Shall Partly Completed Machinery be CE Marked?
THE DOUBT: Shall a partly completed machinery bear the CE marking?
CONSIDERATIONS
There is a straight answer most people know and that is: No, it...
Machinery Directive
Can an Employer CE mark a Machinery or a production line?
THE DOUBT: In the ideal world, Machinery and Production Lines are engineered, manufactured, installed, commissioned and, finally, CE marked by a Manufacturer. E...
Machinery Directive
Seven reasons to Bond or Earth a metallic part
THE DOUBT: Why a metal part has to be connected to a PE (Protection Earth) cable?
CONSIDERATIONS:
There are 7 reasons why a piece of metal has to be bond...
Electrical Safety and Arc Flash Mitigation
Is an assembly without its electrical part a Machinery?
THE DOUBT:
Often, machinery manufacturers have both mechanical and electrical or hydraulic competences: therefore they engineer the whole machine, produce it a...
Machinery Directive
The Naked Machinery
When doing a risk assessment of a Machinery, regardless whether you are using ISO 12100 or B11.0, you need to use the concept of the naked machinery.
If you ar...
Machinery Safety
Risk assessement and machinery security
THE DOUBT: what behaviour should be considered when doing a risk assessment for a machinery?
CONSIDERATIONS: One of the sentences sometimes used when dealing w...
Machinery Directive
The Machinery Regulation (EU) 2023/1230
After a few years in the “kitchen”, the first draft of the new machinery directive has seen the light in April 2021. There are 3 entities at Eu...
Machinery Directive
ATEX Directive inside machinery
THE DOUBT
Do Equipment containing potentially explosive atmosphere and installed in safe areas, fall under the ATEX Directive 2014/34/EU (also called ATEX 114)...
ATEX Risk
IEC 62061: The new edition 2021
The second edition of IEC 62061 was published on the 22nd of March 2021. The work for the new edition started in early 2016.
Some years before, a working group...
Functional Safety
Substantial modifications
THE DOUBT:
What is a Substantial Modification of a Machinery and what are its implications?
CONSIDERATIONS:
Until 2021, there was no definition of &quo...
Machinery Directive
Is it mandatory to give the Instruction Handbook of a machinery in papery format?
THE DOUBT
By working everyday together with manufacturers of machineries, we get frequentily asked the question "is it mandatory to give to our customer t...
Machinery Directive
Exposed Conductive part and grounding
THE DOUBT
In the design of the electrical system, how can I distinguish which of the metal parts is an exposed conductive part? Is bonding all meta...
Electrical Safety and Arc Flash Mitigation
