GT Engineering is specialised in the risk Assessement and risk Reduction of Machines, Production Lines and Processes.
They performed several risk Analysis of Continuous Casting Machines, Rolling Mills, and Electric Arc Furnaces.
We work very close with Transfer Machine Manufacturers and, in general, Assembly Machine Producers.
We have experience in very different Industries: from Textile to Laser Cutting to Sputtering processes used in the semiconductor sector.
We regularly participate to the Technical Commettes liased with CENELEC and CEN, responsible for publication of the main Machinery Safety Technical Standards.
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
How an ISO standard is developed?
A new ISO standard has to go through six maturity stages:
(10) PROPOSAL STAGE: we are at the very beginning: the very first document is called new work item pr...
Type A, B and C Standards
Harmonized standards play an important role in the EU Legislation for the CE Marking of Machineries. ISO classifies the 800+ International technical standards h...
Technical Standards Terminology
Are you new in the Machinery Technical Standard world and do you feel a bit lost with the terminology?
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Stop functions
According to
EN 60204-1 "Safety of machinery - Electrical equipment of machines Part 1: General requirements",
there are three categories ...
Instruction manual
THE QUESTION
Often the manufacturer has doubts about what should be indicated in the Instruction manual.
One of the aspects is whether it is necessary to report...
The emergency stop function
Among the commands of a machine, probably, the emergency stop is the most visible one; however it is not the easiest to understand.
The reference standard is&n...
Safety in Collaborative Robotics
There is no “Collaborative Robot”. That is one of the first statements you hear from people working in Collaborative Robotics. The reason is because...
Whole Body access
If you deal with Machinery Safety you may wonder what Whole Body Access means. That is a relatively new terminology (this article was originally written in...
Safeguarded Space
Machinery safety is often dealing with 2 areas:
- A safe area, free of hazards
- A dangerous one
Historically, the term used...
The Alarp Principle
The Alarp principle recognizes that there are three broad categories of risks:
1. Negligible risk: Broadly accepted by most people as they go about their e...
Why Machinery safety is so important?
Machinery Safety is probably the main leverage that can reduce the number of deaths and injuries in the work place.
In the European Union machinery is a contrib...
