Q. My company buys #CE marked machines and robots and uses them in automated production lines. How does the new #MachineryDirective affect us?

A. It is now very clear that your company creates an assembly of machines or "partly completed machines" and that assembly must be CE market. Particular consideration must be given understanding the risks created by the interaction of machines and to ensuring "...the safety related parts of the control system must apply in a coherent way to the whole of an assembly of machinery and/or partly completed machinery..."