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We are pleased to share our machine safety expertise with you. Therefore - since the year of 2007 - Schmersal provides for their customers a new activity of workshops and seminars focussed on the subject of functional safety of machinery.

Taking the comprehensive legal and normative regulations regarding functional machinery safety and the increasingly complex product offer into account, professional knowledge is of paramount importance for the design of safety functions and the selection of solutions and adequate safety components.

In this field, which belongs to our core competences, the Schmersal Group has acquired comprehensive know-how - not in the least due to its membership and partnership of many institutions and standardization bodies - which you can immediately turn to your advantage.

Our training and seminar programme is extremely extensive and ranges from the requirements of EC’s Machine Directive or e.g. EN ISO 13849-1 standard up to risk assessment requirements etc.

The seminars take place in the modern facility of our Schmersal tec.nicum at Wuppertal/Germany. By default all of them are held in German language. If desired, English trainings can be organised, in your facilities as well. Please contact your local Schmersal representative (alternatively contact directly Friedrich Adams, +49 178 6474-051, e-mail: fadams@schmersal.com).

For further information regarding Schmersal tec.nicum (in German language) please click here.

Following please receive an overview on the themes scheduled for 2011:

Topic Group 1: Current issues on machine safety

K1 - Workshop EN ISO 13849-1:2008 (2006): CONTROL CATEGORIES becomes PERFORMANCE LEVEL (PL) - Replacement of EN 954-1:1996 and its successor EN ISO 13849-1:2008 (2006)

K2 - SISTEMA-software-supported PL-estimations

K3 - Validation of EN ISO 13849-1-requiremts and PL-requirements: Conversion well done? Open questions and uncertainties?

K4 - Reflections/Lessons learned! on MD 2006/42/EC and basics on EC’s legal requirements on safety of machinery

Topic Group 2: Subjects of special interest

K5 - Integrated Manufacturing Systems (IMS) - New standard EN ISO 11161 regarding safety requirements on IMS

K6 - Hygienic-conform design of machinery - Requirements of MD’s Annex I Part 2

K7 - Safety requirements for integration of industrial robots - New standard EN ISO 10218-2 (draft)

Topic Group 3: Basics on machine safety

K8 - Safety related machine design, risk assessment and principles of safety integration

K9 - EMC and major requirements on electrical machine safety

K10 - Interlocking devices and other protective equipment against dangerous machine movements

K11 - Requirements and "rules of the game" in case of Active Optoelectronic Protective Devices (AOPD’s)

K12 - AS-i "Safety at Work": Example of a market leading safety bus system and its surroundings