Standards & Guidance

    Common standards help manufacturers avoid errors and enter foreign markets.

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Standards Relevant to Equipment & Machinery

Common standards help equipment and machinery manufacturers avoid errors, build buyer trust, and enter foreign markets. A few carry particular weight across EMMA's four sub-sectors:

01

Machinery Directive

The core safety and conformity framework for machinery sold in the EU.
150
02

Lean

A methodology for reducing waste across machinery and equipment production lines.
157
03

Six Sigma

A data-driven standard for minimising defects in equipment and machinery manufacturing.
112
04

ERP Integration

Reliable data exchange between production planning and order management, to ISA-95.
116
05

ISO 50001

An energy management system standard for equipment production sites.
103
06

Industry 4.0

Frameworks for digital production, data management, and smart manufacturing.
126

Conformity marking

Machinery standards and conformity marking come from external regulators. We track them and brief members.