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.
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.
A controlled stop, or Stop Category 1, keeps power on to decelerate a machine before removing it, avoiding the hazards a straight removal of power can introduce.
EN ISO 13857 defines the safety distances that stop people reaching hazard zones over, under, around or through guard openings with their upper or lower limbs.
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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