scope:

This European Standard applies to diamond wire saws being used in quarries or in sawmill for cutting natural stones (e.g. marble, granite). Diamond wire saws can have one or more wires (diamond multi-wire saws). The multi-wire saws work in sawmill on blocks having been already extracted. The diamond wire saws can be either stationary or travelling on rails during operation. Diamond wire saws in the scope have an electric main motor. This standard deals with machines working in one main axis as well as in several axes. Diamond wire saws are intended to be used with diamond cutting wires also referred to as tools in this stand-ard. This standard deals only with machines using coated wire tools. This standard deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations and events relevant to diamond wire saws, when they are used as intended and under the conditions foreseen by the manufacturer including rea-sonably foreseeable misuse. This European Standard deals with the foreseeable lifetime of the machinery including the phases of transport, assembly, dismantling, disabling and scrapping. This European Standard does not deal with: - operation under extreme ambient conditions (outside the limits defined in EN 60204-1); - upstream and downstream conveying elements for transporting the work-pieces. This document is not applicable to machines which are manufactured before the date of its publication as EN.