
A-72937EN/11
To meet the requirement of the EMC Directive
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1 Forewords
In EU, the EMC Directive became mandatory on 1. January 1996. To show the
conformity, CE marking is required to apply on products. As it is known, the
CE mark is primarily for final products for users. FANUC’s CNCs and
amplifiers are essentially parts of machine tools, nevertheless, considering
various situations like FANUC exports those products directly to EU, FANUC
has decided to display the CE mark in those products (hereafter referred as
FANUC products).
However, by the following reasons, the CE marking of FANUC products does
not certify that a machine equipped with FANUC products conforms to the
EMC Directive.
①The CE mark of FANUC products assumes that the products are
installed to fulfill certain conditions. Therefore MTBs have to install the
products as requested in the conditions.
②Normally, a machine tool has electric equipment from other vendors than
FANUC. For that equipment, an MTB is supposed to take appropriate
countermeasure to meet the EMC Directive requirement if necessary.
Therefore, as we experienced in case of the Machinery Directive, MTBs are
responsible for displaying CE mark in machines in relation with EMC
Directive as well.
However, having certificates of conformity to the EMC relating standards on
FANUC products might help the MTB get the EMC conformity's certificates
for their machine or machine series more effectively, as describes in the
following chapter.
This document is installation guideline for MTBs to design a machine tool
equipped with FANUC products. We believe MTBs can get machines certified
if they follow this document.
The contents of this guideline subject to be changed without notice depending
on any situation.