ISO 10218 is an international safety standard that specifies requirements and guidance for the design, integration, safeguarding, and collaborative use of industrial robots and robot systems. In manufacturing localization, the standard is referenced in declarations of conformity, safety manuals, risk assessments, and integration documents, where its terminology must stay consistent with other machinery safety texts and corresponding applicable national adoptions.
Translators see ISO 10218 in CE marking documentation, robot safety configurations, user information, and audit checklists. It often appears in clauses about protective stop functions, collaborative operation, and required clearances. The phrasing must align with the source standard and with the target market's adopted version, but without inventing clause numbers.
A frequent error is treating ISO 10218 as a machine-specific manual or a legal code, when it is a safety standard that must be applied during integration. Translators also create nonstandard terms by mixing vocabulary from different machinery directives, which can produce inconsistencies in declarations of conformity and make audit documents harder to verify.
The EU Machinery Directive requires documentation in the language of the destination market. Safety-related terms must map exactly to the wording of the governing standard.
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