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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
THE MACHINERY PRODUCT REGULATION (MPR)
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
ATEX Directive inside machinery
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
IEC 62061: The new edition 2021
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
SUBSTANTIAL MODIFICATIONS
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
Is it mandatory to give the Instruction Handbook of a machinery in papery format?
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
EXPOSED CONDUCTIVE PART AND GROUNDING
Leakage rate and pressure loss
THE DOUBT Technical standards often require external leakage test on components to be used in a gas plant, or even on the plant itself; however, the measureme...
Gas Furnaces - CE Marking
Leakage rate and pressure loss
ATEX Zone 2 - 22 and Notified Body
THE DOUBT: My Machine will be installed in Zone 2 (22). Do I need to involve a Notified Body? CONSIDERATIONS: Here what the ATEX Directive 2014/35/EU states ...
ATEX Risk
Brexit and UKCA mark
Starting from 1 January 2021, United Kingdom is officially outside of the European Union; the new UKCA mark will substitute CE mark for products placed on marke...
Machinery Directive
Brexit and UKCA mark
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...
Machinery Safety
EN 60204-1: Is it possible to delegate safety aspects to the users?
  THE DOUBT Can the machinery manufacturer require the user to install a Fuse or a Circuit Breaker to protect its Electrical Equipment? Can he require th...
Electrical Safety and Arc Flash Mitigation
EN 60204-1: Is it possible to delegate safety aspects to the users?
Is manual reset a safety function?
THE DOUBT: Should the Reset button in a machinery be handled by a safety module, or can it be one of several inputs to the Automation PLC? The question can be ...
Functional Safety