The European directive 2006/42/CE promulgates the machine safe design principles to prevent professional risks. However, outside machines that have specific safety standards, the designers of special machines and manufacturing systems can…
The European directive 2006/42/CE promulgates the machine safe design principles to prevent professional risks. However, outside machines that have specific safety standards, the designers of special machines and manufacturing systems can…
With technological improvements and regulation evolutions, the work of product designers change too. They have to work on different aspects of a product such as technological, legal, environmental and safety at work. The European directive 2006…
This paper describes a new approach aimed at small and medium sized companies to characterize a risk level for all types of working equipment during the architectural and detailed design stages.
Based on the hypothesis that dangerous phenomena…
This paper presents a new approach to detect hazard phenomena of a working equipment during the architectural and detailed design stages. Based on the hypohesis that hazard phenomena are linked to the presence of energy, we present the first…
With technological improvements and regulation evolutions, the work of product designers change too. They have to work on different aspects of a product such as technological, legal, environmental and safety at work. The European directive 2006…