Issue 1/2023
 Standards in flux

In the 01/2023 issue of “Mensch und Automa­tion”, read about the changes to the two stan­dards EN IEC 62061 and EN ISO 13849–1, the new Machinery Reg­u­la­tion and the Cyber Resilience Act, and what they mean to machine man­u­fac­turers and oper­a­tors.  

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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.

Three minutes with …
… Arndt Christ

Vice Pres­i­dent Cus­tomer Sup­port Inter­na­tional

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.

“Working with passion”

Since October, Manuela Bernasconi has been the Man­aging Director of Pilz Switzer­land. In her state­ment she spoke about what makes Pilz Switzer­land spe­cial and what is on the mind of her cus­tomers.

All fired up for Safety

Let’s take a look at a cold rolling mill in which steel strip coils are processed. The pro­duc­tion process includes five steps: pick­ling, cold rolling, annealing, tem­pering and then fin­ishing. The chal­lenge? The fre­quent shut­ting down of the start-up burners, which ignite the main burners.

IO-Link Safety is ready

IO-Link is the open market stan­dard for sensor com­mu­ni­ca­tion. It should soon be pos­sible to also use the com­mu­ni­ca­tion system for data exchange in func­tional safety.

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Industrial Security

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