Safety Requirements for Electro Discharge Machines

This standard specifies safety requirements and/or risk reduction measures, applicable to EDM equipment and EDM systems, such as:

a) manually controlled
- die sinking;
- drilling machines.
b) numerically controlled
- die sinking;
- drilling machines.

This standard addresses all hazardous conditions during the use and foreseeable misuse in normal environments and non-explosive atmospheres, including transportation, installation, setting, maintenance, repair and dismantling for removal or disposal.

This standard is also applicable to auxiliary devices essential for EDM processing and includes information to be provided by the manufacturer to the user.

This standard is not applicable to arc eroding and electro-chemical machining equipment.