Partly completed machinery is equipment, such as a bare industrial robot, that only becomes a working machine once integrated into an installation.
It is supplied with a Declaration of Incorporation and assembly instructions, and carries no CE mark of its own; conformity of the finished machine rests with the integrator. That is the daily reality for robot cell integrators, and Knox Thomas runs a risk assessment service aimed squarely at them.
Placing on the market is the point at which discrete machinery is first made available in the UK or EU, triggering full legal responsibility for its compliance.
Own-use machinery is equipment a business designs, builds or modifies for use on its own site; the law treats the business as the manufacturer regardless.
Harmonised standards are European standards with legal weight: follow them and your machinery is presumed to meet the essential requirements.
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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