Pacific Blue Engineering Provides Automation & Control System Integration Services for Industrial Facilities

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Pacific Blue Engineering (PBE) is a "Turn-Key" machine safety solution provider serving all of California and other surrounding states.  We are proficient in ANSI, ISO, OSHA machine safety standards, provide safety consulting services, training, design, electrical & mechanical installation, and validation services.

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PBE provides the following safety services:

1. Safety Risk and Hazard Assessments: Identify the hazards associated with the equipment.  Estimate, evaluate, and mitigate risks.

2. Functional Requirement Specification: Specify safety input, logic, and output functionality to effectively mitigate risk through safety related parts of the control system.

3. Safety Design & Verification: Specify controls bill of material, develop electrical schematics, integrate new safety with existing controls, design OSHA compliant hard guards, and perform SISTEMA reports to verify safety circuit design.

4. Installation & Validation: Perform turn-key electrical and mechanical installation onsite. Commission the safety system.  Create detailed validation documentation and execute validation onsite.  Also, perform safety distance calculations.

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What we do:

Pacific Blue Engineering will deploy an experienced machine safety consultant to provide professional safety services.  Our safety consultant is a certified Functional Safety Engineer by TÜV Rheinland, an industry leader certifying people and products for machinery safety applications.  Our qualified safety consultant is skilled and well-disciplined in the development and implementation of automation and safety solutions.

Our safety consultant provides expert services in the following disciplines:

·         Standard requirements

·         Risk Assessments

·         Developing Functional Safety Requirements

·         Advantages of various mitigation approaches

·         Safety system design including turnkey integration services

·         Validation services

·         Safety consulting

·         Training

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The Risk Assessment Process

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The Risk Assessment is the first phase of any safety upgrade.  The outcome of the assessment will determine how the safety system is designed, ensure proper compliance with relevant standards, and effectively documents the process.

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This is a team-based approach that will include Customer Name’s core team members intimately involved with the machine.  These members are personnel such as maintenance, engineering, operators, etc.  The team-based assessment will ensure that a complete picture of the machine and how employees’ interact with it is taken into account.  This approach is crucial to effectively identifying hazards on the machine and assign an accurate risk rating.  A thorough assessment is necessary to make certain that the risk reduction techniques are effective and also functional from an operations perspective.

The risk assessment method evaluates risk based on hazards exposed to personnel while performing specific tasks.  We will address set-up, cleaning, operation, and maintenance tasks associated with the machine.  For each hazard identified, the risk assessment team will assign a risk rating and ultimately agree on mitigation techniques that are suggested.

The core components of the risk assessment include:

• Task/Hazard identification

• Risk In Rating

• Risk Out Rating

• Performance Level and Category Requirements

• Mitigation suggestions

• An evaluation of current guarding based on relevant standards

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Standards Used and Referenced by PBE:

• NFPA 79-2015: Electrical Standard for Industrial Machinery

• 29 CFR 1910.212: General Requirements for All Machines

• 29 CFR 1910.219: Mechanical Power Transmission Apparatus

• ANSI RIA R15.06-2012: Industrial Robots and Robot Systems – Safety Requirements

• ANSI B11.10: General Requirements and Risk Reduction

• ANSI B11.19: Performance Criteria for Safeguarding

• ANSI B11.TR3: Risk Assessment and Risk Reduction - A Guideline to Estimate, Evaluate and Reduce Risks Associated with Machine Tools

• EN13849-1:2009: Safety of Machinery - Safety-Related Parts of Control Systems - Part 1: General Principals for Design

• EN 60204-1:2006 Safety of machinery - Electrical equipment of machines - Part 1: General requirements

• IEC 62061-1.0: Safety of Machinery - Functional Safety of Safety-Related Electrical, Electronic and Programmable Electronic Control Systems

• ISO 12100: Safety of Machinery – General Principles for Design- Risk Assessment and Risk Reduction

• ISO 13855:2010: Safety of Machinery - Positioning of Safeguards with Respect to the Approach Speeds of Parts of the Human Body

• EN ISO 13850:2008 Safety of machinery - Emergency stop - Principles for design

• EN ISO 13857:2008 Safety of machinery - Safety distances to prevent hazard zones being reached by upper and lower limbs

• EN 953:1997+A1:2009 Safety of machinery - Guards - General requirements for the design and construction of fixed and movable guards

• ISO 14119:2013: Safety of Machinery - Interlocking Devices Associated with Guards - Principles for Design and Selection (Design to Minimize Defeat Possibilities)

• ANSI RIA TR R15.306-2014- Task based Risk Assessment Methodology

• ISO 4413:2010: Hydraulic Fluid Power - General Rules and Safety Requirements for Systems and their Components

• ISO 4414:2010: Pneumatic Fluid Power - General Rules and Safety Requirements for Systems and their Components

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