In der Praxis kommen Sie um Sicherheitsfragen pneumatischer Komponenten kaum herum, etwa bei der technischen Dokumentation oder bei der Risikobeurteilung. Maßgebliche Vorgabe ist die Maschinenrichtlinie 2006/42/EG als Grundlage für die funktionale Sicherheit von Maschinen, relevant ist außerdem die harmonisierte Norm EN ISO 13849. Die gute Nachricht: Festo hilft in allen Fällen als kompetenter Ansprechpartner. Wir bieten neben der Beratung genaue Application Notes zu unseren Lösungen.
Festo offers a wide range of individual pneumatic components that need to be assessed as part of the system. It is not like electrics where you work with certified components; instead, the functional safety of a specific pneumatic application usually needs to be designed and built with common hardware components. In this case, it is the machine manufacturer's responsibility to provide the safety-related evaluation and documentation.
Safety-related pneumatics is anything but trivial, which is why we provide our products with all the relevant data as standard. What’s more, our project engineers are on hand to offer you expert advice until you are up to date with what is required, for example by going through the Failure Mode and Effects Analysis with you. This service provides you with a quicker and more cost-effective way to ensure your system is safe.