DIN EN 454:2015-02

This standard contains specifications meeting the essential requirements set out in Annex I of EU Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC, and which apply to machines that are either first placed on the market or commissioned within the EEA. This standard serves to facilitate proof of compliance with the essential requirements of that directive. Once this standard is cited in the Official Journal of the European Union, it is deemed a "harmonized" standard and thus, a manufacturer applying this standard may assume compliance with the requirements of the Machinery Directive ("presumption of conformity"). This European Standard specifies safety and hygiene requirements for the design and manufacture of fixed bowl planetary mixers with a tool having a planetary movement by using two parallel axes. The capacity of the bowl is greater than or equal to 5 L and less than or equal to 200 L. These planetary mixers are used separately in the food industry and shops (catering, bakery, pizza, pastry and confectionary industry) for mixing, kneading and emulsifying/whipping food products (for example cocoa, flour, sugar, oils and fat, eggs, and other ingredients). These machines are fed by hand and sometimes during operation without stopping the machine. Processing is carried out in cycles of variable duration. It can be either manually or automatically controlled, in individual cycles or on a cycle repeat basis, etcetera. This European Standard deals with all significant hazards, hazardous situations and events relevant to the transport, installation, adjustment, operation, cleaning, maintenance, dismantling, disassembling and scrapping of planetary mixers, when they are used as intended and under the conditions of misuse which are reasonably foreseeable by the manufacturer. This European Standard does not deal with the following machines: - catering attachment for planetary mixers (see EN 12851); - continuously fed machines; - dough mixers (see EN 453); - whipping mixers which contain no parallel axes; - stirring machines; - experimental and testing machines under development by the manufacturers; - machines used in other industry, for example: meat industry, candy industry, pharmaceutical industry, chemical industry; - domestic appliances. This European Standard is not applicable to machines which are manufactured before its date of publication as a European standard. This standard contains the German version of EN 454:2014 which has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 153 "Machinery intended for use with foodstuffs and feed" of the European Committee for Standardization (CEN). The following changes have been made with respect to EN 454:2010-10: a) the number of machine classes has been modified (2 instead of 3); b) a solid guard to protect against dust emission has been added; c) safety dimensions of the guard have been rendered more precise; d) the operation of the bowl movement in working position for class 1 has been modified; e) the table concerning the verification of safety and hygiene requirements has been completely revised. The national interests during the preparation of the standard are represented by Committee NA 060-18-01 AA "Bäckereimaschinen" ("Bakery equipment") of Technical Section "Food Processing Machinery" of the Standards Committee Mechanical Engineering (NAM) at DIN. Representatives of manufacturers and users of bakery equipment, and of the employers' liability insurance associations contributed to this standard.