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It’s Time to Step-Up Machine Safety

OEMs understand the need to comply with machine safety standards, but new requirements may necessitate bringing in a third party to help mitigate risk.

Polytron's Proven Roadmap To Machine Safety

Polytron is a systems integrator (SI) specializing in automation and controls, industrial networks, simulation, smart manufacturing, and cybersecurity. But another area of expertise the company offers as a service that is very valuable, and sometimes overlooked, is machine safety assessments and verification/validations.

Polytron’s Safety Practice helps companies—mostly large food and beverage and CPG manufacturers—to protect packaging and processing equipment, and, of course, people. The safety team hold certifications in global safety competency, with Functional Safety Engineer (FSE) certified by TÜV Rheinland and Certified Machine Safety Experts – CMSE – TÜV NORD. These certifications held by the Polytron team validate that a manufacturer’s safety projects will be delivered with proven competency and expertise in best-in-class machine safety practices and thorough understanding of safety standards.

“In the safety business, we have a safety lifecycle from risk assessment, safety definitions, designing, implementation, validation, and help with overall standards—either compliance or helping to write standards for the end users,” says Sean Daswani, project manager and safety business leader at Polytron. And while the safety lifecycle is focused on the end user, “pieces of that lifecycle go directly to help facilitate the OEM that is selling equipment to the manufacturer.”

The need for machine builders to be part of the process is the reason that Polytron is extending its service to work directly with them. And they are finding that a lot of the OEMs they work with have a few different issues.

“One is, the OEMs in the U.S. that are trying to sell machines over in Europe have an issue with certain requirements of the machinery directive that has to be met to get machines to the EU,” Daswani says. Here in the U.S., the standards are not as strict, but there are still standard enforcements, like the new ANSI B11.0 (2020), which outlines the responsibilities of the machine builder. “We’ve helped manufacturers with standards, but they require risk assessments at the OEM facility to identify hazards and they want to know what [the OEM] has done to mitigate those.”

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