prEN ISO 23582-1

This document specifies the essential safety requirements for the design and construction of magnetic clamping systems (MCS) for plastics and rubber machines (injection moulding machines, compression moulding machines etc.) and provides information for their safe use. This standard deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situation or hazardous events that are listed in Annex A, when a MCS is used utilizing magnetic force to affix a mould to the plate of a machine in which is integrated, taking into consideration even conditions of misuse that are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer. This standard does not cover hydraulic or pneumatic or mechanical clamping systems. This standard is not applicable to MCS, which are manufactured before the date of its publication.