scope:

This 3-A Sanitary Standard applies to the sanitary use of industrial robot systems integral with food processing, preparation, or other applications or industries where process equipment cleaning and sanitization is required. This standard addresses the robot and ancillary robotic system equipment, including the robot base, end of arm tooling (EOAT), tool changers, and robot dressing.

This standard does not apply to robots associated with milking systems on dairy farms.

To conform to this 3-A Sanitary Standard, the robot system shall conform to the following criteria for design, materials of construction, fabrication techniques, and installation and the current revisions or editions of all referenced documents cited herein.

This standard includes materials and fabrication requirements as well as special requirements unique to robot systems, including zone considerations, programming requirements, controller requirements, wiring/robot dressing requirements and tooling, and installation.