TECHNICAL
DOCUMENTATION
The technical documentation serves to inform and instruct defined target groups, to secure the manufacturer‘s liability, to monitor the product, to ensure traceability and reproducibility as well as for permanent or legally required archiving. When modernizing a machine/system, the existing “old“ technical documentation often plays a significant role. Here the manufacturer has the duty of care to determine whether the residual risks identified in the risk assessment have already been taken into account in these documents.
In particular, safety-related components and their functions must be prepared in a comprehensible and target group-oriented manner in order to guarantee the highest possible level of safety for the persons taking action. Foundry Service creates project-oriented technical documentation in accordance with current EC directives, e.g:
When a control system is modernized, the technical documentation usually consists of the following components: