Robot arms and cobots
Fixed-base manipulators: fenced industrial arms, collaborative arms sharing a workspace with people, palletisers, welders and pickers. What a wrong action reaches is the person in the cell first, the product second.
Classes in this family
8; 0 adaptive by default, 6 whose wrong action reaches a person- Collaborative robot cell SL-T 2 fixed
Moves a tool or part through a taught path while sharing the workspace with a person, relying on force limits or separation monitoring instead of a fence. - Delta robot cell SL-T 1 fixed
Picks items off a moving belt at very high rate inside an enclosed frame, usually guided by a camera. - Gantry robot cell SL-T 2 fixed
Moves a gripper over a large rectangular area on linear axes, above a machine, a pallet area or a storage floor. - Industrial robot arm cell SL-T 2 fixed
Moves a tool or a part through a programmed path inside a fenced cell, at a speed and force that a person cannot survive contact with. - Painting and dispensing robot cell SL-T 2 fixed
Applies paint, sealant or adhesive along a taught path in a booth, often in an explosive atmosphere. - Robotic palletiser cell SL-T 2 fixed
Stacks cases or bags onto pallets, or unloads them from pallets, with an arm or a layer gantry at the end or the start of a line, in a caged cell with a pallet in and out station. - SCARA and pick-and-place robot cell SL-T 1 fixed
Moves small parts between fixtures at high speed on a horizontal plane, usually inside an enclosed assembly cell. - Welding robot cell SL-T 2 fixed
Moves a welding torch or gun along a taught seam inside a fenced cell, with fume extraction and a positioner.
Zones this family sits in
| cell | Cell zone: one machine or one closely coupled group with its own controller, the lowest level a conduit can be drawn at. Conduit: cell to line: the controller talks up to the line supervisor over one documented conduit, nothing else in. |
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What reaches this family
| IEC 62443 | Attaches to every automated asset the owner runs, in every zone class; the rows differ by zone, by connectivity and by behaviour. Binds Part 2-1 binds the asset owner; Part 3-2 is the owner's zoning and risk assessment; Part 3-3 is what the owner specifies for the system. Part 2-4 binds the service provider and Parts 4-1 and 4-2 the product supplier, so those rows are rendered as what to ask. |
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| SP 800-82 | Attaches to every asset as the OT-specific overlay: architecture, remote access, patching in OT and incident response. Binds guidance addressed to the operator of the OT environment: it binds nobody in law and is what most OT security programmes are assessed against. |
| AI Act | Attaches only to an adaptive controller or a safety component that is an AI system; a fixed-program machine gets no row, and the page says why. Binds Articles 26 and 4 bind the deployer, which is the asset owner using the system; Articles 12 to 15 bind the provider; a deployer that substantially modifies the system becomes its provider. |
| Machinery Regulation | Attaches to every physical machine and safety component; a controller, a server or a read-only sensor carries no row of its own. Binds the manufacturer of the machine, and whoever substantially modifies it; the owner's row is what to demand at purchase and hold, and what it becomes liable for on a substantial modification. |
| ISO 27001 | Attaches the supplier and change controls to every asset and the network controls to every connected one. Binds the organisation that holds the certificate, through the Annex A controls it declared applicable. |
Register the assets in this family
Paste the list; every asset in this family is placed in its class, given its zone and SL-T, its behaviour and connectivity, and carries the rows above. Eight assets free, no account.
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