ISO 10218-1:2011—Robots And Robotic Devices Safety
Manufacturing challenges like labor shortages, rising costs, higher consumer demand, and global marketplaces have renewed the push for companies to be automated. Industrial robots are […]
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The First Ingredient in Successful Conformity Assessment
What are the required elements, or the ingredients, of “successful” conformity assessment? In this three-part blog series, ANAB explores the three-ingredient recipe needed for successful […]
ASTM F404-21: Consumer Safety For High Chairs
High chairs were seen as early as the 1600s in homes with children. Between the 1600s to the early 1800s, high chairs were custom made […]
ANSI/PLASTICS B151.31-2014 (R2020): Blow Molding Machines
Do you know how plastic water bottles are created? Well, since the 1970s, stretch blow molding has been used for creating preforms of plastic bottles […]
ASTM F1912-21: Bean Bag Chairs And Covers
During the 1980s and 1990s, the popularity of bean bags declined tremendously. This decline occurred because deaths and non-fatal incidents involving infants and children using […]
ANSI B11.6-2022: Manual Turning Machines (Lathes) Safety
The “mother of all machine tools” is also known as the lathe, the first machine tool which led to the invention of other machine-based tools […]
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Packaging machinery runs on standards from conveyors to roller bearings, lubricants, belts, valves, design, maintenance and sanitation. ANSI has the manufacturing and production standards that […]