Machine tools — Safety — Electrical discharge machines

This document specifies safety requirements and/or protective measures applicable to EDM equipment and EDM systems intended to be adopted by persons undertaking their design, construction, installation and/or supply, such as:

— manually controlled EDM die sinking or EDM drilling machines;

— numerically controlled EDM die sinking or EDM drilling machines; and

— numerically controlled EDM wire cutting machines.

This document also includes information to be provided by the manufacturer to the user.

This document is not applicable to arc eroding and electro-chemical machining equipment.

This document takes account of the precondition of the intended use as well as the reasonably foreseeable misuse, in normal workshop environments and non-explosive atmospheres, including transportation, installation, setting, maintenance, repair and dismantling for removal or disposal of EDM equipment and EDM systems.

This document is also applicable to auxiliary devices essential for EDM processing.

This document deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations or hazardous events relevant to EDM equipment and EDM systems, where they are used as intended and under conditions of misuse w