Material handling and storage
Conveyors, sorters, automated storage, picking cells and cranes: the machines that move load through the building. Long reach, many interfaces, and usually shared with people at the boundaries.
Classes in this family
6; 1 adaptive by default, 6 whose wrong action reaches a person- Automated crane and hoist line SL-T 2 fixed
Lifts and moves heavy loads over the floor under program or remote control. - Automated storage and retrieval line SL-T 2 fixed
Stores and retrieves loads in racking with cranes or shuttles inside a fenced aisle that people enter only under a permit. - Automated truck loading line SL-T 1 fixed
Pushes or conveys pallets into a trailer at the dock without a forklift. - Conveyor system line SL-T 1 fixed
Moves product or load through the building on belts, rollers or chains, with drives and stops under a controller. - Robotic picking cell cell SL-T 2 adaptive
An arm that picks individual items from a tote or bin using a camera and a model that decides where to grasp. - Sortation system line SL-T 2 fixed
Routes parcels or cases to the right chute at high speed from a code read, under a controller that tracks every item.
Zones this family sits in
| line | Line zone: the controllers, drives and stations of one production line, sharing a network and a supervisor. Conduit: line to plant supervisory: the line reports up and takes recipes down through a boundary device with a deny-by-default rule set. |
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| 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. |
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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