Drive and safety engineering support for pickup robot development

The pickup robot is an innovative product, one which has to be safe, reliable, and fast. Time was short when it came to product design, type testing, and certification.

In determining the applicable health and safety requirements, the risks needed to be analysed in regard to manufacturing, usage, and decommissioning according to pertinent standards. Safety measures needed to be added such as safety barriers or the detection of people, body parts, or objects in order to reduce any perceivable dangers to an acceptable level.

The product needs to adhere to pertinent directives and standards. To ensure that the product is competitive, reliable, and safe it needs to be designed safely and tested carefully in different scenarios and environmental conditions for a sufficient amount of time. The different power supply standards had to be considered as well. To indicate conformity to health, safety, and environmental protection standards the CE marking was needed for the European Union. UL/CSA certification was necessary for the USA and Canada. The product has been very successful.