LITERATURE
ON MACHINE SAFETY

mrl news | Issue 2024.01 

Content

• Editorial: tec.nicum grows with the challenges
• The Schmersal Group restructures its service division / Foundation of tec.nicum – Solutions & Services GmbH
• Interview with Bruno Diniz, Head of tec.nicum – Solutions & Services GmbH
• digitalisation: the new service module no. 5 of tec.nicum
• outsourcing: the new service module no. 6 of tec.nicum
• Energy management as an IIoT solution
• New memorandum of understanding from the UK’s Department for Business and Trade
• Are standards soon to be available free of charge?
• Legal aspects of machine safety
• New directive for product liability
• Functional Safety of Machinery training course and exam for the Functional Safety Engineer (TÜV Rheinland) ­certificate
• New tec.nicum seminars for managers
• The 2024 seminar programme of the tec.nicum academy

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The “Blue Guide”
On the implementation of EU product rules

The Guide to the implementation of directives based on the New Approach and the Global Approach (the “Blue Guide”) was published in 2000. Since then, it has become one of the main reference documents explaining how to implement the legislation based on the New Approach, now covered by the New Legislative Framework.

This new version of the Guide will therefore build on the past edition, but include new chapters, for example on the obligations of economic operators or accreditation, or completely revised chapters such as those on standardisation or market surveillance. The Guide has also been given a new title reflecting the fact that the New Legislative Framework is likely to be used, at least in part, by all types of Union harmonisation legislation and not only by the so-called “New Approach” directives.

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Design Of Safety Guards Under Observation Of ISO 14119

This brochure's objective is to aid designers of machinery and plants with standard-compliant design of moveable guards, taking into consideration ISO 14119 and other relevant regulations. The guide walks through the process of designing safety guards, from initial risk assessment, safety circuit design, choosing the right safety devices, to validation and documentation.

24 pages, with wall poster.

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A New Approach to Machine Safety
A guide to EN ISO 13849-1:2006 – Safety-related Parts of Control Systems. 

In this brochure we extensively highlight the core speech at the Elan lecture event 2005, which dealt with the discontinuation of the EN 954-1 standard and the new regulations in the revised standard EN ISO 13849-1. The new standard represents a paradigm shift in the philosophy of safety-related parts of machine control systems takes place to supplement probabilistic considerations to the previous proven in use deterministic considerations.

52 pages, available as PDF only

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