Good afternoon
I am looking for someone who can help advise regarding an installation of materials handling equipment. Within the installation you have numerous conveyors, automated cranes, robots cells as an example. Each having a control panel which would isolate that individual item. The question I have is when you take each of these 'machines' so various conveyors and automated cranes aand they are interconnected can you still treat them as individual machines, thus the electrical design falls under the machinery directive, or do you treat it as a distributed systen and therefore it would be classed as a system and perhaps therefore meet different criteria for electrical design.
I am trying to ensure that our designs which are designed within mainland Europe under the machinery directive meet the requirments as an installation in the UK, where some are looking at it as a distibuted system and therefore applying 17th addition for example.
Any help greatly appreciated.
Paul.
