By Sjoerd van der Zwaan, chief product officer, Solid Sands
The new EU Regulation 2023/1230 is set to enter force on 20 January 2027, replacing the long-standing Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC.
The implications for machinery manufacturers are profound because the regulation extends the scope of machine safety to include software-driven, autonomous, and AI-enabled systems.
As a result, the need to qualify machine software and its toolchain as part of a continuous, lifecycle-based process comes into sharp regulatory focus. [Read more…] about Technical perspective: From freeze to flow – new EU regulation redefines robotics software qualification