Intertek Launches Functional Safety Design Evaluation and Certification Program for Industrial Automated Machinery and Robotics
15 July 2020 - 12:15AM
Business Wire
Intertek, a Total Quality Assurance provider to industries
worldwide, has launched the Functional Safety Conformity Assessment
Program for industrial automated machinery and robotics. The new
program will offer manufacturers design evaluation, testing, and
certification with the Intertek Functional Safety (FS) Mark, to
illustrate compliance to rigorous standards assessing product
safety and performance. The program launch is made possible through
accreditation to ISO 17065, granted by the ANSI National
Accreditation Board (ANAB).
Functional safety is the part of the overall safety of a system
or piece of equipment that depends on automatic protections
operating correctly, and in response to inputs or predictable
failures. As part of the engineering process, it emphasizes safe
design, operation, and control of protection systems as individual
components, subassemblies, and complete machines to mitigate
unreasonable risk of direct or indirect physical injury or damage
to people’s health. It is a critical part of the design of
automated machinery and robotics.
Under the new Intertek program, applicable products will be
assessed to ISO 12100, which is focused on the safety of machinery
with emphasis on risk assessment and reduction principles for
design. Following evaluation, from an integrated machine system to
a component, compliant products will be certified, labelled with
the Intertek FS Mark, and listed in the Intertek Functional Safety
directory.
Pierrick Balaire, Global Business Line Leader for Energy and
Industrial at Intertek, said: “Intertek’s commitment to Total
Quality Assurance helps ensure the safety of our customers’
products. The industrial machinery and robotics industries are
facing increased market and regulatory demands around functional
safety and need to illustrate the safety and reliability of their
products. That is why we’re introducing this program and its
accompanying FS Mark: to give customers a way to illustrate reduced
hazards and risks to operating personnel, the machine, and the
surrounding environment.”
Intertek’s expertise and diverse services support industrial
production, equipment, assets, and processes through innovative and
bespoke quality assurance solutions. From quickly and efficiently
bringing industrial equipment to markets worldwide, to asset
integrity management of facilities, to ensuring regulatory
compliance, Intertek’s network of global expertise and services
enables customers to power ahead safely. For more, visit
www.intertek.com/industrial.
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