UL1740 Mark for EPSON Robots

EPSON E2 Robots Now with UL (and CE) Marks

Why UL Listed Robots?

What's so Great About Meeting UL1740?

EPSON E2 Robots Now with UL (and CE) Marks
The EPSON E2 SCARA Robots have been fully tested and are now shipping in North and South America with the UL and CE marks. The entire model line of 34 different E2 Robots are now UL listed along with our RC420 and RC520 PC Based Robot Workcell Controllers. The UL mark took a significant investment of both time and money to obtain but EPSON did this work because:

1) Many of our current customers requested that we offer UL marked products

                and

2) Growing state and local regulations are mandating the UL safety mark on robotic equipment

Why UL Listed Robots?
EPSON believes strongly that our number 1 responsibility to our customers is to provide products that are both safe and reliable. As such, EPSON has very rigorous internal design and manufacturing standards to make sure that all our robots exceed our customers expectations. By not only following our own internal safety and manufacturing standards but also implementing safety and manufacturing programs to meet the requirements of both the UL1740, CE mark, and ANSI/RIA 15.06 standards for robots this ensures that our robots meet all the latest safety standards and makes them safer and more reliable than ever. The UL1740 listing program is a 3rd party independent product evaluation program whereby every single component of our manipulators (arms) and controllers is evaluated based upon strict UL standards. Since UL is an independent organization, you don't have to take our word for it, the UL mark on the side of the robot says it all. So the real question isn't why does EPSON have the UL mark on all our products but instead the question is why don't all robots have the UL mark?

What's so Great About Meeting UL1740?
The UL1740 Listing program is a comprehensive program to evaluate risk of personal injury, fire, and electric shock under normal and abnormal conditions including risk analysis with component/safety function software failures. Rigorous testing is done at the component level to make sure that the robots and controllers are safe even when component failures occur. Achieving acceptance of meeting the UL1740 standard does the following:

Ensures conformance to American national, Canadian national and International standards

* ANSI/UL 1740-1998 Robots and Robotic Equipment

* ANSI/RIA 15.06-1999 American National Standard for Industrial Robots and Robot Systems - Safety Requirements

* ANSI/NFPA 70-1999 National Electrical Code

* ANSI/NFPA 79-1997 Electrical Standard for Industrial Machinery

* SEMI S2-0200, "Safety Guidelines for Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment"

* CE/EN 775, "Manipulating Industrial Robots - Safety; [ISO 10218:1992 Modified]"

* CE Marking

Growing state and local regulations mandate safety mark on robotic equipment

* State of Alabama

* State of California

* City of Chicago, Illinois

* State of Minnesota

* City of Portland, Oregon

* State of Texas

* Roanoke, Virginia

* State of Washington

* Province of Ontario, Canada

* Others

Testing accepted by other regulatory agencies in the U.S. and overseas

* OSHA (U.S.A.)

* C-UL Mark accepted in all provinces and territories in Canada

* Ontario Ministry of Labour (MOL) Pre-Start Health and Safety Review (PSR)

* CSA (Canada)

* CE Marking (Europe)

* Cooperation with test agencies worldwide

Enhanced customer acceptance

* Labor organization

* Insurance interests

* Plant management

* Fire officials

* Municipal authorities

* Follow-up services to ensure continued conformance with UL requirements

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