1. Safety

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1.1. Introduction

The main purpose of this chapter is to describe the safety precautions for users and operators who repair and manipulate the industrial robot.

This manual describes safety precautions for robot manipulator and controller, in comply with the requirement of ANSI/RIA R15.06-1999, Standard for Safety, Industrial Robots, and qualified with safety regulations. The technical description and installation method of robot system is presented in detail at the specifications regarding installation of robot manipulator and controller.

Every operator, who installs, replaces, adjusts, manipulates, maintains, and repairs, must read thoroughly and fully understand the manipulation and maintenance manual, in particular, the special attention must be paid to the WARNING symbol, the most important marking related to the safety.

Installation, replacement, adjustment, manipulation, maintenance, and repair of robot system must be performed by the personnel who was duly trained for these purposes, following the indicated operating procedure.

This company is planning and carrying out the relevant training such as maintenance, repair, and manipulation for the above operations, so robot users make sure that robot operators should get the relevant training. And make sure that the robot handling work should be carried out only by the operators who completed this training course.

The Users of HR and HX industrial robots have a responsibility under the safety relavant regulations valid in the country where the robot is installed, and a responsibility to properly design, install, and operate the safety devices to protect workers.

The dangerous zone of robot system, that is the working range in which the robot, tool, and peripheral equipment are operated, must be safeguarded to prevent workers or objects from entering the zone. If a person or object should nevertheless enters the dangerous zone, make sure that the robot system is immediately shut down by emergency stop system. The operators of robot system have a responsibility to take all necessary steps to make correct installation, examination and operation of the relevant safety devices.

This manual is provided for the utilization of HR and HX Series Manipulator models and Hi4a controller.

Valid application and invalid environment of HR and HX Series robots are as follows.

Application

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