image: Advanced Recycling Machines Many manufacturers selling industrial products into the EU market have come to understand at least one of the environmental protection Directives, RoHS – the “Restriction of…
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CE, Brexit and Authorised Representatives We’re just passing the T‑1 year mark on the UK’s journey towards leaving the EU. Some of my readers are “Leavers”, while others are “Remainers”, but…
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I’ve written quite a bit recently on the topic of circuit architectures under ISO 13849 – 1, and one of my readers noticed an inconsistency between the text of the standard and Figure 5,…
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