scope:

This document specifies the essential safety requirements for the design, the construction and the integration of magnetic clamping systems (MCS) for plastics and rubber machines (e.g. injection molding machines, compression presses) and provides operational limits and information for their safe use. This standard deals with the basic hazards, hazardous situations or hazardous events that are listed in Annex A, when an MCS is used utilizing magnetic force to affix a mold to the plate of a machine in which it is integrated, and provides requirements to eliminate or adequately reduce the risks associated with these hazards taking into consideration conditions of misuse that are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer. This standard also specifies requirements for the magnetic clamping system when integrated into a machine. This standard does not deal specifically with hazards associated with production processes or other processes (e.g. horizontal or vertical injection moulding processes). Other standards can be applicable to these process hazards. This document does not cover hydraulic, pneumatic or mechanical clamping systems. This standard is not applicable to MCS, which are manufactured before the date of its publication.