
TÜV Rheinland recognized as Notified Body
TÜV Rheinland is a partner for testing and certification in accordance with the amended Machinery Directive EU 2023/1230 and is therefore now recognized as a Notified Body.

Human-robot collaboration / cobots
In collaboration with numerous international partners, robotics experts at the Fraunhofer IFF have developed a new ISO standard that shows how contact forces and pressures on cobots will be measured in a standardized way in the future. The ISO standard has now been published.

For the first time, an industrial product was certified for the USA after some of the required tests were digitally simulated and the results confirmed by physical tests. This was made possible with the help of the digital twin.