Manufacturing equipment builders are important contributors to the development and implementation of safety standards, including setting new strategic objectives. Industrial safety standards are not fixed objects. They are dynamic principles that evolve as manufacturing processes and equipment changes, and as more information becomes available to the operators and managers. Manufacturing equipment builders are important contributors to the development and implementation of safety standards, and Rockford Systems is highlighting five machine-safeguarding trends that are strategic objectives now for manufacturers in 2018. Each one of these has the potential to influence significantly or even to disrupt established processes - and may present a new need for investment by manufacturers that risk being out of compliance with newer OSHA/ANSI codes, or being too late to adopt productivity-enhancing equipment.
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