Control Panels
Bring all the loading bay elements into one single panel.
A fully compliant solution
- Strip back each axis to its basic element
- Single enclosure with unified wiring colours and numbering
- Common E-Stop
- Functional safety applied to each axis using a integrated control scheme
- Prevents unexpected start-up
- Single user interface allows the deployment of Standard Operating Procedures
- Removes non compliance issues
- Easy to maintain and service
- Brings uniformity to each loading bay
- Reduces down time on the loading bay
Risk assessment considerations
Any electrically operated shelter, dock bridge and door is defined as a machine in it’s own right and is covered by the Machinery and Low Voltage Directives which cover machine and electrical safety.
The door is also covered by the Construction Products Regulation (CPR) for manual and electric doors.
Three separate control panels with bad wiring installed onto a single door.
When these products are brought together to complete a loading bay solution they combine to make a single machine and this is where a new risk assessment needs be done to ensure any new risks that are introduced are covered.
- Light and lamp management
- Motor short circuit and overload protection
- Interlocks between each motorised axis
- E-Stop
- Unexpected start up
- Fault tolerance
- Operator interface
- Wiring
Installation on site. The control panel also has a simple menu driven interface which can be adapted to suit different languages.
