Vertical packaging machinery CE certification - Emergency stop design
The CE certification of vertical packaging machinery should have the following considerations in the design of emergency shutdown:
Each machine must be equipped with one or several emergency stop devices to avoid existing or imminent dangers; Exceptions to the following:
——A machine that cannot reduce downtime due to an emergency stop device or that cannot take special measures to solve the hazard
——Portable machines and manually controlled machines.
The emergency stop device must:
——Has a clearly identifiable, clearly visible and quickly accessible controller;
——Stop the dangerous process as soon as possible without causing additional danger;
——Trigger or allow certain security mechanisms to be triggered, if necessary.
After the emergency stop control device issues a stop command, once the effective operation is terminated, the command must be maintained by turning on the emergency stop device until the switch is explicitly disabled; The device must be unreachable without triggering a stop command; The device must only be switched off by a suitable operation. Switching off the emergency stop device must not restart the machine, but only allow it to be restarted.