Inspection and vision
Cameras, readers, scanners and sensors that decide whether product passes and whether a person is in a zone. Some of them are safety functions; some of them now carry a model that learns.
Classes in this family
6; 2 adaptive by default, 1 whose wrong action reaches a person- AI defect-detection model line SL-T 2 adaptive
A trained model, on a camera or an edge box, that classifies product or predicts a fault and can be retrained on new data. - Barcode and RFID reader cell SL-T 1 fixed
Reads codes on product or pallets and tells the line or the warehouse system what just passed. - Checkweigher and foreign body detector cell SL-T 1 fixed
Weighs or scans every pack and rejects the ones out of range or carrying a foreign body; a food safety control point on most lines. - Condition monitoring sensor business SL-T 1 adaptive
Measures vibration, temperature or current on a machine and sends it to an analytics service that predicts a fault. - Safety laser scanner and light curtain safety SL-T 3 fixed
Detects a person entering a hazard zone and tells the safety controller to stop the machine; a safety function, not a sensor. - Vision inspection camera cell SL-T 1 fixed
Decides whether product passes by comparing an image to a rule or a model, and rejects what it judges wrong.
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. |
| business | Site business zone: the IT side of the boundary, reached from the plant only through a controlled conduit. Conduit: site business to plant: brokered through the DMZ, jump host and recorded session for anything that reaches down. |
| safety | Safety zone: safety controllers, safety scanners and instrumented systems, kept on their own conduit so nothing on the process side can command them. Conduit: safety to line: a safety conduit that carries status out and accepts no command in from the process network. |
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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