The target: Monitoring devices conforming to the standards
The standards and regulations for machine safety form an important basis for the selection of safety switchgear. We are happy to provide you with assistance in this respect. We work in close co-operation with the standardisation authorities and can actively support you in the task of designing monitoring devices to particular national and international standards in each case.
Initial information on this complex subject is to be found here on our homepage. The new edition of our book “Safety on machines and engineering plants” contains appreciably more information on the harmonised safety standards in the EU. And for concrete questions, our specialist engineers for safety technology are at your disposal.
The EN 954-1 standard and its classification into control categories are common stuff to machinery and plant builders when they need to assess the risks and select the appropriate safety-related parts of control systems. In the future, a new approach however will have to be used to determine the safety of machine controls: the DIN EN ISO 13849-1 is coming into force. The basic approach however has not changed. more
2006/42/EC was finally adopted on 25th April 2006, and was published in the Official Journal of the EU (L157) in June. more
Arrangement of the EN standards The requirements of the Machinery Directive are substantiated by means of the EN standards, which are divided into three hierarchically arranged type classifications..... more
How safe must machines be? To the basic thoughts which follow through the whole standards work is the procedure for the design of a safe machine layed down in Appendix 1 of the Machinery Directive and detailed in EN 292. more