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EN 954–1 /​ ISO 13849–1:2006 Mandatory Implementation Date Change

Posted by on December 9, 2009 6 comments

Regular read­ers will be aware of the con­tro­versy that has sur­rounded the manda­tory imple­men­ta­tion of EN ISO 13849–1:2006, orig­i­nally sched­uled for 28-​​Dec-​​09. The EC Machinery Working Group met this week to review the opin­ions of European machin­ery experts. Following the meet­ing, it was announced that the manda­tory imple­men­ta­tion date will be extended by some time, how­ever no date was given.

Some spec­u­la­tion exists about the length of the exten­sion, with some sources say­ing that it could be as lit­tle as 12 months to as long as five years. Until the EC revises the dates and pub­lishes them in the Official Journal we won’t have the ‘final word’, how­ever we are hop­ing that an announce­ment will be made to clar­ify the deci­sion and the date.

If you are a machine builder who has already imple­mented EN ISO 13849–1:2006 and the val­i­da­tion stan­dard EN ISO 13849–2:2006, you are ahead of the game. Your efforts have not been wasted, as your sys­tems already con­form to the require­ments that will even­tu­ally be manda­tory for all machine builders. For those machine builders who have yet to imple­ment these stan­dards, you’ve gained a bit of a reprieve, but you will still be required to imple­ment these stan­dards even­tu­ally. If you have yet to begin imple­men­ta­tion, now is the time.

I will post the new manda­tory imple­men­ta­tion dates as soon as this infor­ma­tion is available.

ESA Manufacturer’s Registration Deadline postponed

Posted by on August 26, 2009 2 comments
This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series Ontario ESA Manufacturers Registry

If you’ve been fol­low­ing the dis­cus­sions on the EMC/​PSTC list server and else­where about the ESA Manufacturer’s reg­istry in Ontario, you may not be aware that ESA has dropped the August 30 dead­line for reg­is­tra­tion. It seems that the Ontario Government and ESA are review­ing the dead­line fol­low­ing a cab­i­net shake-​​up at Queen’s Park. There is no word on when or if the dead­line will be rein­stated. Need to know more? Come to the PSES Symposium and be there for ESA’s pre­sen­ta­tion on the Registry! http://​www​.PSESSymposium​.org

2008 IEEE PSES Symposium On Product Compliance Engineering

Posted by on October 27, 2008 Comments Off

Last week I was at the 2008 PSES Symposium in Austin Texas.

This was one of the most suc­cess­ful Symposia held by the PSES, with 180 in atten­dance and 15 exhibitors in the hall. Attendees came from as far as Argentina, the UK and Israel!

Dr. June Andersen gave a great keynote address on Monday morn­ing, show­ing the group how IBM man­ages world­wide com­pli­ance in more than 180 dif­fer­ent mar­kets. Dr. Andersen’s back­ground is impres­sive, and a bit intim­i­dat­ing. I found her to be a warm, friendly and inter­est­ing per­son when we shared break­fast together before the con­fer­ece opened. Dr. Andersen’s pre­sen­ta­tion will be made avail­able through the PSES web site to mem­bers, so if you would like a copy and you’re not a mem­ber, now is a great time to join!

Keith Armstrong of Cherry Clough Consultants, along with his col­leagues Jacques Delaballe and Bill Radasky pre­sented an inter­est­ing one-​​day work­shop on EMC and Functional Safety, dis­cussing the effects of EMC on the safety related parts of con­trol sys­tems. On Wednesday, Keith com­pleted the series with a short pre­sen­ta­tion on the short­com­ings of con­ven­tional EMC test­ing in reveal­ing safety-​​related design prob­lems. Definitely a worth­while series! Armstron, Delaballe and Radasky are plan­ning a new work­shop for next-year’s Symposium in Toronto that will carry on from this year, so if you are inter­ested in this area, plan to attend!

There were sev­eral ses­sions on bat­ter­ies and the on-​​going work that the bat­tery com­pa­nies and the main bat­tery con­sumers are under­tak­ing to resolve the design and man­u­fac­tur­ing prob­lems that led to the note­book and cell phone fires in the past year. These ses­sions were packed and well reviewed by every­one I spoke with.

There were lots of other pre­sen­ta­tions that I didn’t get a chance to attend — with 40 pre­sen­ta­tions and only one me, it was impos­si­ble to get to every one.

If you missed this year’s Symposium, start plannng for next year’s in Toronto — it’s going to be great!

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