To celebrate Design, Products & Applications’ (DPA) 40-year milestone, the Editor – Paige West – brings you a selection of articles that look at the advancements and achievements the engineering sector has accomplished in this time.
Safety is one of the most significant issues facing machinery owners today, and the electrical element is an essential consideration for keeping machine operators and maintenance personnel safe. The key standard for machinery electrical safety in Europe is EN 60204:2018, which replaced EN 60204:2006 and was finally published across every European Member States in March this year (published in the UK September 2018).
NUM is helping the Taiwanese machine tool company Chien Wei Precise Technology to develop innovative CNC grinding machines for manufacturing specialist gears used in robotics applications.
MiniTec’s aluminium profile is the ideal product to create bespoke industrial machine guards and safety fencing in an industrial environment, especially as the product is compliant with The Machinery Safety Directive EN ISO 13849-1.
For hazardous applications such as establishing the health of electrical components at a substation, the ability to measure temperature accurately over a distance is critical. Achieving this depends on several factors and two of the most important are the resolution of the detector and the chosen camera lens.