LITERATURE
ON MACHINE SAFETY
In this section we provide you with background information on machine safety, for example in the form of brochures and information sheets from trade associations. In particular, you will find current and past issues of MRL News. In our magazine, our experts write about specific topics in the field of machine safety – and often refer you to further literature.
mrl news | Issue 2024.02
Content
- Editorial: How to arm yourself against potential hazards
- En route to more sustainable safety switchgear
- How a customer benefits from tec.nicum‘s global network in a major international project
- Fire protection in mechanical engineering – normative requirements and practical examples
- Artificial Intelligence for accident prevention
- Cyber resilience in mechanical engineering
- Lockout–Tagout–Tryout (LOTOTO)
- The tec.nicum academy seminar programme for 2024/25
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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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mrl news | Issue 2023.02
Content
- Editorial: New challenges — from collaborative robots to cyber security
- UK to retain European CE mark even post-Brexit
- Design and construction of a collaborative robotized cell
- Turnkey solutions — the key to success
- Challenges and opportunities when accessing machines remotely
- New automation and safety solutions for intralogistics
- Definition of the term “substantial modification” in the MR
- Staff reinforcement for tec.nicum
- The 2024 seminar program of the tec.nicum academy
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mrl news | Issue 2023.01
Content
- Editorial: New developments - new rules - new products
- New Machinery Directive published
- Schmersal introduces digital operating instructions
- Safe maintenance on machines
- Requirements and standards for hygiene-compliant food processing machinery
- Major changes in the new ISO 13849
- Fault exclusions in the control cabinet
- Semiconductor shortage and the selection of safety switchgear
- The 2023 seminar program of the tec.nicum academy
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mrl news | Issue 2022.02
Content
- Editorial Wind of change
- tec.nicum with a new Design
- Safety Requirements in Battery Production
- Standards within the Scope of the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC
- Series Connection of Sensors with Regard to Fault Detection
- Interesting Aspects of the new EU Machinery Directive from a Manufacturer‘s Point of View
- Practical Application of new Standards based on a Project Example
- European Union presents a Draft AI Directive
- Two new Sector Managers join the Schmersal Group
- The 2022/2023 Seminar Program of the tec.nicum Academ
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mrl news | Issue 2022.01
Content
- Editorial: Everything remains in the flow
- TÜV Rheinland issues first UKCA certificate for Schmersal
- Placing machines on the market in the USA
- Which consequences have modifications on used machines?
- Machinery Directive becomes Machinery Ordinance
- Safety-related integration of automated guided vehicles (AGVs)
- New tec.nicum seminar: Machinery CE Expert®
- The tec.nicum academy seminar programme for 2022/23
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mrl news | Issue 2021.02
Content
- There are many ways to a safe machine
- Anniversary: Five years of tec.nicum
- Why manipulation protection is important
- Safety solutions to prevent unexpected start-up
- Placing products on the UK market after Brexit
- Risk assessment in accordance with the Industrial Safety Regulation – mandatory or optional?
- Safe control technology on smaller machinery: integrated or separated?
- The tec.nicum academy seminar programme for 2021/22
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mrl news | Issue 2021.01
Content
- Editorial: New solutions for the safety of machinery, occupational H & S and infection prevention
- Revision of EN ISO 14119
- New statistics from the German Federal Institute for Occupational H & S
- Guest article: EN 60204-1: Aspects from practice in relation to ‘earthing’
- White paper: Practical safety solution for setup operation
- Testing of active optoelectronic protective devices
- New products and services for infection prevention from Schmersal
- The tec.nicum academy seminar programme for 2021
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mrl news | Issue 2020.02
Content
- Editorial: Occupational safety during the coronavirus pandemic
- New: tec.nicum Support Ticket
- Seminars from the tec.nicum academy
- Industrial robot safety - what's new?
- tec.nicum now offering companies risks assessment for infection prevention
- Lived practice rather than grey theory
- Risk assessments made easy
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mrl news | Issue 2020.01
Content
- Editorial – Practical tips and new discoveries
- tec.nicum on tour – Dates for 2020
- Modular safety solution for food processing machines
- Overtravel time measurements as a service
- Error tolerance in machine safety – White paper from ZVEI points to new pathways
- Things to consider when compiling instructions for use
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mrl news | Issue 2019.01
Content
- Editorial – Changes in standards
- Machine safety and product liability
- Fixed-position safety – two-handed switches in accordance with DIN EN ISO 13851:2019-11
- Validation in accordance with DIN EN ISO 13849-2
- DIN EN ISO 14119
- tec.nicum on tour - dates for 2020
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.
