Knowledge

How can machines be designed safely? How can pro­duc­tivity remain guar­an­teed? Which stan­dards must be con­sid­ered in the process? For Pilz, safety is more than just a product. We share our knowl­edge from the field of machinery safety.

Safety for overhead cranes

Cranes are an inte­gral part of the pro­duc­tion and logis­tics chain at Marelli Mako Elek­trik Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. They must be safe, so that loads sus­pended over­head do not pose any danger to oper­ating per­sonnel. With com­pre­hen­sive exper­tise, Pilz has brought the first of sev­eral cranes up to the cur­rent stan­dards.

All set for the Machinery Regulation? Check now!

The new EU Machinery Reg­u­la­tion (EU) 2023/1230 will be manda­tory in all EU member states from 20 Jan­uary 2027. As there is no tran­si­tion phase, those who pre­pare in good time will ben­efit in par­tic­ular – they’ll ensure plan­ning cer­tainty and can use the new require­ments to their com­pet­i­tive advan­tage.

Exports to India

India intro­duces new Machinery Safety reg­u­la­tions. In future, the “Machinery and Elec­trical Equip­ment Safety (Omnibus Tech­nical Reg­u­la­tion) Order, 2024” will require BIS (Bureau of Indian Stan­dards) cer­ti­fi­ca­tion and a local rep­re­sen­ta­tive. This cre­ates new market access require­ments for inter­na­tional machine man­u­fac­turers wishing to export to India.

Fit for the CRA

In an inter­view, Matthias Kuczera, expert in “Func­tional Safety – Stan­dards” at Pilz GmbH & Co. KG, explains exactly how affected com­pa­nies can pre­pare well for the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA).

Navigating change safely with knowledge

Stan­dards and direc­tives pro­vide the frame­work, tech­nology makes it pos­sible – but it takes know-how to develop automa­tion solu­tions to pro­tect human, machine and envi­ron­ment.

Worldwide training offer

An increas­ingly net­worked world places new demands on automa­tion and those who work with it. In addi­tion to our prod­ucts and ser­vices, the Pilz training pro­gramme also has a long-standing rep­u­ta­tion. Our experts help to over­come the chal­lenges of the future – with com­pre­hen­sive knowl­edge of machinery Safety and Secu­rity.

Step-by-step retrofit

What can you do when essen­tial machine com­po­nents are no longer avail­able or when the machine in gen­eral needs to be mod­ernised in order to main­tain its pro­duc­tivity and thus increase the machine’s ser­vice life? Pur­chasing a new machine is often very costly and time-con­suming. That’s why, in most cases, a retrofit is the better and more sus­tain­able alter­na­tive.

Security legislation: What’s happening in 2024?

In terms of Safety and Secu­rity, machine builders and oper­a­tors are cur­rently facing a number of legal require­ments. What’s hap­pening in 2024?

Comprehensive service for Industrial Security

Increased cyber attacks, secu­rity require­ments in the new Machinery Reg­u­la­tion and manip­u­la­tion pro­tec­tion – pres­sure is growing on industry to deal with Indus­trial Secu­rity. But where to start? And how to imple­ment it? In Ger­many, Pilz is launching the Indus­trial Secu­rity Con­sulting Ser­vice.

What’s the situation with CE?

On 20 Jan­uary 2027, the Machinery Reg­u­la­tion will replace the long-standing Machinery Direc­tive. From this key date, dec­la­ra­tions of con­for­mity must meet the new require­ments. Training and ser­vices from Pilz help machine man­u­fac­turers and oper­a­tors with the new route to CE marking.

A brief history of machinery safety

Even today, safety in the work­place cannot be taken for granted in many parts of the world. How­ever, in more and more coun­tries there is a growing recog­ni­tion that machinery safety is worth it – for human and machine.

Spotlight on Security!

Along­side machinery safety, the stan­dards land­scape is focusing increas­ingly on Indus­trial Secu­rity. Because with digi­ti­sa­tion and net­working the envi­ron­ment is ­cur­rently under­going change. We are high­lighting what the most impor­tant changes to stan­dards in 2023 mean for machine man­u­fac­turers and oper­a­tors.

Tapping into retrofit knowledge!

It’s on tap: In Wiesel­burg in Aus­tria, for once this doesn’t apply to the beer – but to the know-how that Pilz shared with Brau Union to enable the brewery to upgrade an existing barrel cleaning and filling plant to the state of the art.

Customised validation

The safety status of machinery must be val­i­dated at reg­ular inter­vals. On three dif­ferent, com­pre­hen­sive levels, it will soon be pos­sible for machine man­u­fac­turers or oper­a­tors to imple­ment this type of val­i­da­tion even more effi­ciently.

“More precise specifications help”

A revi­sion of one of the most impor­tant stan­dards on func­tional safety, ISO 13849–1, is now avail­able in the final ver­sion. We asked what will change.

State-of-the-art Security

Secu­rity has become an indis­pens­able part of automa­tion, but with new require­ments and nor­ma­tive spec­i­fi­ca­tions, man­u­fac­turers, inte­gra­tors and oper­a­tors are faced with the ques­tion of how their staff can become qual­i­fied for the new chal­lenges. In response, Pilz has expanded its range of training courses for the pro­fes­sional devel­op­ment of spe­cial­ists to become Secu­rity experts.

A decade full of knowledge

With the estab­lish­ment of the qual­i­fi­ca­tion as CMSE, Cer­ti­fied Machinery Safety Expert, Pilz broke new ground ten years ago in terms of com­mu­ni­cating knowl­edge in the machinery safety sector. Today this type of inter­na­tion­ally uni­form and inde­pen­dently cer­ti­fied qual­i­fi­ca­tion is a suc­cess model.

Ready for use around the world

No matter whether Pilz prod­ucts are to be used in Canada, Italy or China, no Pilz cus­tomer should have to worry about the required cer­ti­fi­ca­tion. The variety of quality marks on the prod­ucts shows that cus­tomers can rely on Pilz, such as on the con­for­mity of the mod­ular safety relay myPNOZ.

Well-advised

What should you do if your machine is get­ting on in years? We show Pilz’s sys­tem­atic approach to bringing plant and machinery back up to the state of the art – including higher avail­ability and a longer ser­vice life.

Don’t get lost in the standards jungle!

Machines and prod­ucts around the world must above all be: safe and reli­able. Stan­dards are the most impor­tant reg­u­la­tory tool to ensure that they deliver on their promises. But man­aging stan­dards is a learning process.

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