machine
Let an agent explain machines by principle, type, mechanical advantage, safety and regulation, and route machinery accidents to emergency help.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain machines by principle, type, mechanical advantage, safety and regulation, and route machinery accidents to emergency help.
A device that uses energy to apply forces and perform work or control motion, from simple machines such as the lever, wheel and axle, pulley, inclined plane, wedge and screw to complex powered machinery in industry, agriculture and homes.
What it is for: Doing work more easily, quickly or precisely.
It can be explain simple machines and mechanical advantage; classify powered machinery; find machinery safety rules and guarding requirements; understand CE marking for machinery.
Distinguishing features
Transmits or converts energy
Has moving parts
Provides mechanical advantage
Regulated for safety
What it looks like
Assemblies of moving parts, frames, motors, gears and controls.
How it is recognised
Levers, gears, belts and motors
Guards and emergency stops
Hand tools without mechanisms are simpler devices
Related models
is a kind of - category
includes - simple machine
converts - function
is regulated by - regulation
In practice
Families and kinds
simple machines
engines and motors
industrial and machine tools
agricultural machinery
household machines
Standards and regulation
EU Machinery Regulation 2023/1230
ISO 12100 risk assessment for machinery
Workplace equipment safety rules
Failure modes and hazards
Entanglement and crushing injuries
Removed or bypassed guards
Inadequate training
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.machine-2
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Principle How machines work.
Physics explains machines.
Simple
Simple machines.
Simple
Simple machines.
- Which simple machines are involved here? definition
- What mechanical advantage do they give? measurement
Efficiency
Energy losses.
Efficiency
Efficiency.
- How efficient is the machine, and where is energy lost? measurement
- How can losses be reduced? action
Safety Accidents.
Safety comes first.
Accident
Emergencies.
Accident
Machinery accidents.
- Is someone trapped or injured by a machine? boundary
- Should the machine be stopped with the emergency stop and emergency services called? action
Guarding
Safeguards.
Guarding
Guarding.
- Are guards, interlocks and emergency stops in place and working? boundary
- Which standard applies? provenance
Compliance Rules.
Machinery is regulated.
Marking
CE marking.
Marking
Conformity marking.
- Does the machine carry conformity marking and a declaration of conformity? provenance
- Who is the manufacturer responsible? provenance
Training
Operators.
Training
Operator training.
- What training must operators have for this machine? provenance
- Who provides it? provenance
Learning Education.
Machines teach physics.
Explain
Teaching.
Explain
Teaching.
- How can simple machines be demonstrated in class? action
- Which materials are safe? boundary
History
History of machines.
History
History.
- How did machines develop historically, according to historians of technology? provenance
- Which museums show them? provenance
What the second pass must settle
- Should machine types be separate entries?
- How should safety standards be linked?
- How should historical machines be linked?