ISO 12100 is the international reference standard for machinery safety: it sets out the method for risk assessment and risk reduction — identify the hazards, estimate the risks, then reduce them through design, through guards and through user information.
In the project
A mechatronic system with moving parts is a “machine” in the sense of the standard: the ISO 12100 approach is exactly the one applied when analysing user risks (pinching, stored energy, moving parts) from the technical specification onwards, through an AMDEC, the French acronym for FMEA, or a variant of it. The guiding principle transfers as it stands: reduce the risk through design first (hard stops, guards, emergency stop), then through information.
The full formalism of the standard (categories, performance levels, associated type-B and type-C standards) belongs to the standards course and to the ESE discipline. This wiki keeps the risk-analysis approach as applied to the project.
See also
- AMDEC — the risk-analysis tool used
- Safety and quality — product safety and risk analysis
- CE marking — the Machinery Directive relies on standards of this kind
- Standards course (colleagues) — the full ISO 12100 formalism