Pressure Equipment Directive

Reference title: PED

 

Who should attend
Manufacturers of pressure equipment and assemblies,

manufacturers of equipment parts and components,

materials manufacturers, commissioners, experts in

charge of engineering, equipment design, inspection

and procurement, project managers, supervisors, pilot

run personnel, subcontractors, distributors.

 

Agenda

Pressure equipment directive 2014/68/EU - Basics
- EC-harmonization, “New legal framework”
- Scope, definitions: pressure equipment and assemblies, subassemblies
- Classification: risk-categories, “Sound engineering practice”
- Conformity assessment: basic approach, procedures, third-party bodies
- EU-declaration of conformity, CE-marking
- Manufacturer according to the PED, obligations and liability

 

Essential safety requirements
- Hazard and risk analysis, documentation in practice
- Basics of design and construction
- Materials: suitability for use, inspection certificates, special requirements for steel
- Permanent joining: qualification of personnel and procedures
- Final assessment: final inspection, proof test, inspection of safety devices
- Labelling, fabrication plate
- Operating instructions

 

Guidelines to the PED
– Legal status, current state
– Impact in practice

 

Technical specifications
- Leading harmonized European Standards
- Adapted national codes: AD 2000, ASME
- Consequences for safe operation, periodic inspection intervals

 

Borderline and delimitation issues
- Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC

- ATEX Directive 2014/68/EU

Operation of pressure equipment – what the manufacturer should know
– National legislation on equipment subjected to authorities’ surveillance
– Periodic inspection intervals.

Workshops (by choice): Classification of equipment and assemblies / Requirements for “sound engineering practice” /  Subcontracting and procurement of components / Determination of hydrostatic test pressure / Prevention of brittle fracture – use of steels at low temperatures / CE-marking of piping systems / Hydraulic and pneumatic systems in machinery / Impact of fatigue design specifications on inspection intervals.

 

Trainer
Dr.-Ing. Tiberius Schulz