A collaborative robot, or cobot, is an industrial robot designed to work safely alongside people, using force and load monitoring to detect impacts and maintain safe operation.
An original equipment manufacturer is the company that designs and builds machinery, often relying on specialist compliance support to navigate CE, UKCA and PUWER requirements.
Isolation is the act of disconnecting a machine’s energy sources, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic or stored, so it cannot operate during maintenance.
A Declaration of Conformity is the signed legal statement that a machine complies with every directive and regulation that applies to it.
For nearly two decades, the Machinery Directive (2006/42/EC) has been the backbone of machinery safety compliance across Europe.
Introduction Machinery is now software-defined, connected, and increasingly autonomous. The Machinery Regulation (EU) 2023/1230 treats software failures as
A question we hear regularly from clients is which assessment do they actually need for their machinery —
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