1、American National Standardfor Plastics Machinery -Extrusion Blow Molding Machines Safety Requirements for Manufacture,Care, and UseANSI/SPI B151.15-2003ANSI/SPIB151.15-2003ANSI/SPI B151.15-2003Revision ofANSI/SPI B151.15-2000American National Standardfor Plastics Machinery Extrusion Blow Molding Mac
2、hines Safety Requirements for Manufacture,Care, and UseSponsorThe Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc.Approved October 15, 2003 American National Standards Institute, Inc.Approval of an American National Standard requires review by ANSI that therequirements for due process, consensus, and other cr
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8、standards by calling or writing the AmericanNational Standards Institute.American National StandardPublished byAmerican National Standards Institute, Inc.25 West 43rd Street, New York, NY 10036Copyright 2003 by American National Standards Institute, Inc.All rights reserved.No part of this publicatio
9、n may be reproduced in anyform, in an electronic retrieval system or otherwise,without prior written permission of the publisher.Printed in the United States of AmericaiContentsPageForeword ii1 Scope, Purpose and Application 11.1 Scope . 11.2 Purpose 11.3 Application 12 Normative references . 23 Def
10、initions. 34 Instructions - Responsibility for. 84.1 Manufacturer 84.2 Modifier. 94.3 Remanufacturer 95 Manufacture, Remanufacture, and Modifications . 95.1 Responsibility . 95.2 Mold Area Guarding . 105.3 General Guarding (Other than Mold Area Guarding) . 135.4 Safety Signs . 135.5 Setting Movement
11、s. 136 Former Installations 156.1 Responsibility . 156.2 Mold Area Guarding . 156.3 General Guarding (Other than Point of Operation Guarding). 186.4 Safety Signs . 186.5 Setting Movements. 197 Care and Use - Responsiblity for 207.1 Training of Maintenance Personnel 207.2 Training of Operators, and S
12、etup and Supervisory Personnel . 207.3 Inspection and Maintenance. 207.4 Work Area. 207.5 Parts Discharge Area . 217.6 Ventilation. 217.7 Ancillary Equipment 217.8 Personal Protective Equipment 218 Safety Signs . 21iiForeword (This foreword is not part of American National Standard ANSI/SPI B151.15-
13、2003.)This standard is a revision of American National Standard for Plastics Machinery -Extrusion Blow Molding Machines - Safety Requirements for Construction, Care, andUse, ANSI/SPI B151.15-2000. The standard was revised because:1) Some paragraphs required modification and some paragraphs were adde
14、dto conform more closely to changes in technology;2) Some paragraphs required modification for clarity and intent.The project on safety requirements for the manufacture, care, and use of extrusionblow molding machines was initiated under the auspices of the Extrusion Blow Mold-ing Section of the Mac
15、hinery Division, and the Safety Committee of the Molders Man-agement Division, of the Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc. (SPI).Both divisions of the SPI have long been concerned with operator safety on plasticsprocessing equipment. Accordingly, each section of the divisions has established astan
16、dards development committee charged with the task of establishing necessarystandards.A standard treating the manufacture, care, and use of extrusion molding machines iscomplicated by the wide variety and sizes of machines manufactured and in use, andby the virtually infinite combinations of parts be
17、ing produced, the production methodsused, and the operating conditions existing in industry today.The primary objective of this standard is to minimize hazards to personnel associatedwith machine activity by establishing requirements for the manufacture, care, anduse of these machines.To accomplish
18、this objective, the committee decided to approach the problem of ma-chine safety from two directions:1) Eliminating by design certain recognized hazards and establishing standardapproaches to design so that machines available from competitive manufacturerswill have similar operational characteristic
19、s;2) Safeguarding the machine to protect personnel from recognized hazards.To assist in the interpretation of these requirements, responsibilities have been as-signed to the manufacturer, the remanufacturer, the modifier, and the employer.Recognizing the impossibility of updating equipment and chang
20、ing operation meth-ods allied with existing machines immediately after approval date of this standard, a3-year period has been provided to employers for updating machines.Recognizing the impossibility of immediate updating of design and manufacturingmethods, Clauses 5 and 8 shall become effective on
21、e year after the approval date ofthis standard.Suggestions for improvement of this standard will be welcome. They should be sentto the Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc, 1801 K Street, NW, Suite 600K, Washing-ton, DC 20006-1301.Consensus for this standard was achieved by use of the Canvass Metho
22、d.iiiThe following organizations recognized as having an interest in the standardization ofextrusion blow molding machines were contacted prior to the approval of this stan-dard. Inclusion in this list does not necessarily imply that the organization concurredwith the submittal of the proposed stand
23、ard to ANSI.Alcona AssociatesAmerican Safety & EquipmentAssociation for Manufacturing TechnologyFord Visteon DivisionMoody & AssociatesPackaging Machinery Manufacturers InstituteRobotic Industries AssociationSociety of the Plastics Industry: Machinery Division The Blow Molding Section, Standards Dev
24、elopment Committee of the Machinery Di-vision, The Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc, which was responsible for this stan-dard, had the following members:Douglas L. Sten, Chairperson(Uniloy Milacron, Inc.)Others who worked with the Blow Molding Section of the Machinery Division on thedevelopment
25、 of this standard were:Walt Bishop, The Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc.Secretariat to the committeeGlenn Atkinson(Husky IMS)Ronald Beaulieu(Improved Blowmolding)Karl Bruning(Bekum America)Frank Kennedy(Davis Standard) Tim Koury(Blue Water Plastics, Inc.)Robert Monteith(Milacron, Inc.)Peter Sc
26、hmidt(Krupp Plastics & Rubber Machinery/USA)ivExplanation of Standard FormatAmerican National Standard ANSI/SPI B151.15-2003 uses a two-column format toprovide both specific requirements and supporting information.The left column, designated “Standard Requirements,“ is confined solely to these re-qu
27、irements and is printed in bold type.The right column, designated “Explanatory Information,“ contains only informationthat is intended to clarify the standard. This column is not a part of the standard.Operating rules (safe practices) are not included in either column unless they are ofsuch a nature
28、 as to be vital safety requirements, equal in weight to other require-ments, or guides to assist in compliance with the standard.AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARD ANSI/SPI B151.15-2003American National Standard for Plastics Machinery Extrusion Blow Molding Machines Safety Requirements for Manufacture, Care
29、, and Use 1 STANDARD REQUIREMENTS 1 Scope, Purpose, and Application 1.1 Scope The requirements of this standard shall apply to all EBMMs that process plastic materials to form a parison that is blown into the shape of a mold cavity held by a clamp(s). Safety requirements for the manufacture of ancil
30、lary equipment for EBMMs are not covered by this standard. 1.2 Purpose The purpose of this standard is to mini-mize hazards to personnel. 1.3 Application Extrusion Blow Molding Machines shall be referred to as EBMMs throughout this standard. 1.3.1 New Installations The requirements of this standard
31、per-taining to manufacture shall apply to all new or remanufactured EBMMs installed in the United States of America. Date of manufacture of the new or remanufac-tured machine (month and year) shall be affixed permanently and legibly to the machine along with the name of the manufacturer or remanufac
32、turer. Compli-ance shall be achieved within one year after the approval date of this standard. EXPLANATORY INFORMATION (Not part of American National Standard for Plastics Machinery Extrusion Blow Mold-ing Machines Safety Requirements for Manufacture, Care, and Use, ANSI/SPI B151.15-2003.) E1.3 Appl
33、ication Inquiries with respect to the application of, or substantive requirements of, this Standard should be addressed to the Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc., 1801 K Street, NW, Suite 600K, Washington, DC 20006-1301. E1.3.1 New Installations EBMMs may be manufactured or remanu-factured anywh
34、ere in the world. ANSI/SPI B151.15-20032 1.3.2 Former Installations Existing EBMMs that do not comply with this standard shall be modified by the employer in accordance with the re-quirements of clauses 6, 7 and 8 of this standard. The employer shall be respon-sible for bringing existing EBMMs into
35、compliance with this standard within three years after the approval date of this standard. The effective date is estab-lished by the standards-developing or-ganization and not by the American Na-tional Standards Institute. 1.3.3 All Installations An employer shall not permit an EBMM to be operated u
36、nless it is in compliance with this standard. 2 Normative References The following standards contain provi-sions which, through reference in this text, constitute provisions of this Ameri-can National Standard. At the time of publication, the editions indicated were valid. All standards are subject
37、to revi-sion, and parties to agreements based on this American National Standard are en-couraged to investigate the possibility of applying the most recent edition of the standards indicated below. ANSI Z535.3-2002, Criteria for Safety SymbolsANSI Z535.4-2002, Product Safety Signs and LabelsANSI Z97
38、.1-1984 (R1994), Glazing Materi-als Used in Buildings Safety Perform-ance Specifications and Methods of Test ANSI/NFPA 79-2002, Electrical Standard for Industrial Machinery E2 Bibliography ANSI B11 TR1-1993, Ergonomic Guidelines for the Design, Installation and Use ANSI/ASME B20.1-2003, Safety Stand
39、ards for Conveyors and Related Equipment ANSI/SPI B151.27-2003, Plastics Machinery Robots Used with Horizontal Injection Molding Machines Safety Requirements for the Integration, Care, and Use AN-105, SPI Recommended Guidelines for Guarding of Safety Circuits in Programma-ble Controllers AN-108, SPI
40、 Recommended Guideline for Using Hydraulic Accumulators on Injection Molding Machines AN-134, SPI Recommended Guideline for Technical Manuals Supplied with Plastics Machinery and Related Equipment AN-137, SPI Recommended Guideline for Safety Signs for Plastics Machinery and Re-lated Equipment ANSI/S
41、PI B151.15-20033 3 Definitions 3.1 Alarm An indication that a failure or misadjust-ment of a device has occurred. 3.2 Automatic Cycle A selectable mode of operation of the EBMM that allows it to perform more than one cycle. 3.3 Barrel The cylinder portion of the plasticating unit within which the ma
42、terial is proc-essed. 3.4 Clamp Unit That portion of the EBMM that holds the two halves of the mold and opens and closes the mold. 3.5 Control Circuit The means controlling sequential mo-tion/cycling of the EBMM by signaling the device (hydraulic/pneumatic valving, electric servo motors, etc.) to ef
43、fect EBMM motion. 3.6 Control Reliability A method of ensuring the effective inte-gration of the performance of guards, devices and control systems for safety. 3.7 Control Systems Sensors, manual input and mode selec-tion elements, interlocking and decision making circuitry and output elements provi
44、ded to the EBMM operating devices or mechanisms. 3.8 Cooling Station The part of the machine in which the hol-low articles are cooled after being with-drawn from the blow mold. 3.9 Cutting Device The apparatus that cuts the parison at the exit of the extrusion head. 3.10 Cycle A complete movement fr
45、om the initial start position back to that same start po-sition of the EBMM. ANSI/SPI B151.15-20034 3.11 Delivery Station The part of the machine in which the hol-low plastic articles are withdrawn from the molds and removed from the ma-chine. 3.12 Die Head The section of an EBMM (general ex-truder)
46、 where the melt is transformed into a hollow parison(s). 3.13 Double Acknowledgment System A hardwired safety reset control button located outside of the point of operation that can only be actuated after all the op-erators gates are closed. This control button is positioned to afford a clear view o
47、f the point of operation. Cycle start shall only be possible after closing the rele-vant operators gate(s), followed by: (a) actuating the safety reset control button and then (b) activating the cycle start button. Actuating the safety reset control button shall not initiate movement in the point of
48、 operation and shall be monitored to ensure proper sequence of operation. 3.14 EBMM Extrusion Blow Molding Machine. 3.15 Emergency Stop Button A red, mushroom-shaped button that, when depressed, will stop all EBMM haz-ardous movement/motion. 3.16 Employer Any person who contracts, hires, or is respo
49、nsible for the personnel associated with EBMM installation, operation, ser-vice, troubleshooting, setup and/or main-tenance. 3.17 Extrusion Unit That portion of the EBMM that plasticizes and then extrudes material through a die head in between the molds. 3.18 Finishing Station The part of the machine in which excess material flash is removed from the hollow plastic article. E3.13 Double Acknowledgment System A control system that is initiated prior to each cycle in the semi-automatic mode and only during cycle start in the automatic mode. E3
