PHOENIX CONTACT | Customer magazine UPDATE 3/2012

The route to CE marking for machines The Machinery Directive stipulates that manufacturers or marketers of machines must ensure that they bear a CE mark, thereby confirming conformance with the Machinery Directive and other provisions. By signing the declaration of conformity, the person in charge certifies compliance with the legal requirements. The Machinery Directive defines the basic safety requirements for machinery. In addition, harmonized standards describe the technical implementation. Stipulations governing the functional safety of machinery can be found in EN ISO 13849-1 and EN 62061. The technical documentation to be produced must certify that a machine conforms with the Machinery Directive.This includes the risk assessment, construction drawings, e-plans and proof of the implementation of the functional safety measures. The standards require a structured procedure for establishing and implementing the safety functions.The Phoenix Contact safety lifecycle comes into play here. It explains the individual phases and the steps which are to be performed in order for functional safety to be achieved.The basis of all activities, for the purpose of attaining functional safety, is risk assessment.This should be an accompanying process that commences during a machine's design phase. Services for machine safety Phoenix Contact boasts an extensive portfolio of services for accompanying the safety lifecycle phases. A team of safety experts can be contacted at any time via the free safety hotline.With our safety services we can also provide consultation and process assistance, offer training on technology and the latest standards or even perform complete individual tasks for you.The result is the comprehensive, predictable, and comprehensible fulfillment of the safety-related requirements.This enables the person in charge to continue concentrating on their core competence as a mechanical engineer, thereby saving time and resources. Torsten Gast He had already discovered the basics of functional safety at a Phoenix Contact machine safety seminar in Bremen. However, for initial implementation on a real machine he sought assistance from Phoenix Contact in the form of machine safety services. Moderated risk assessment The first stage involved the machine's risk assessment which was conducted on site in the form of a moderated discussion.“The Phoenix Contact team provided us with a detailed introduction to risk assessment and to using the documentation templates especially developed for this purpose”, recalls Patrik Borchers, who managed the project at Eisbär Eis. These documentation templates cover the structure and all the measures which are necessary for documenting the procedure and results of a risk assessment. Based on the information and documentation templates from Phoenix Contact, Eisbär Eis was able to systematically identify all the hazards and assess and evaluate the risks involved. Armed with a great deal of expertise, Eisbär Eis can now“coolly” await the upcoming machine conversion operations. Olaf Ruth UPDATE 3|12 07On site The Machinery Directive stipulates that manufacturers or marketers of machines must ensure that they bear a CE mark, thereby confirming conformance