Sichere roboterbasierte Produktion: Trends und Revisionen in Europäischen Normen und Richtlinien

Abstract

Safety and security are the most essential requirements for every machine and plant. The Machinery Directive 2006/42/EG regulates the placing of safe, complete, and incomplete machines on the market. At the end of June, the EU-wide machinery regulation was published, which will replace the machinery directive in the future. This innovation is relevant to all areas of the machinery. Especially for robotics, there is currently an intense revision in the field of standardization. On the one hand, ISO 13849, the most widely used ISO standard for functional safety, has been revised. On the other hand, ISO 10218, the standard that regulates the requirements for the design of industrial robots and the integration of their applications, is being revised. This article gives an insight into the current trends and revisions of the European standards and directives relevant to stationary industrial robots and their applications.