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 Equipment
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
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
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
