ANSI B11.26-2024: Machines – Functional Safety
Controlling machines is essential because it allows for accurate and efficient operation, maximizing productivity and reducing waste of materials. Ultimate machine control leads to improved…
ANSI B11.0-2023: Safety of Machinery
In the hands of Homo erectus—or its contemporary primitive cousin, H. habilis (whose name literally means “handy man”)—the hand axe, dating back 1.8 million years,…
ANSI B11.17-2023: Horizontal Extrusion Press Systems
The main purpose of every machine tool is to process materials. Inadvertent interference with, or accidental misdirection of the released energy during production, maintenance, commissioning…
ANSI B11.27-2020: Safety of Electro Discharge Machines
For nearly one century, the ANSI B11 standards have minimized the inherent risks of machinery that come with processing materials. In doing so, these machine…
ANSI B11 Standards (Safety of Machinery)
Machines might not make the world go round, but they definitely help us out on its surface. Unfortunately—even before pulley systems supported the construction of megaliths…
ANSI B11.19-2019: Safeguarding and Machinery Risk Reduction
ANSI B11.19-2019: Performance Requirements For Risk Reduction Measures: Safeguarding And Other Means Of Reducing Risk focuses on an integral topic when it comes to machines:…
ISO Type A-B-C Structure for Machinery Standards
Machinery plays a crucial role in numerous industries. However, tasks involving machinery always bear some level of risk, as hazards emerge during the design, construction,…
ANSI B11.20-2017: Safety Requirements for Integrated Manufacturing Systems (IMS)
ANSI B11.20-2017: Safety Requirements for Integrated Manufacturing Systems, the third edition of the integrated manufacturing systems standard, has been released. What Are Integrated Manufacturing Systems?…