Requirement
Decide whether an ATEX filling review is needed
Use the SDS, release scenario, operating temperature, ventilation and competent area classification in the correct order.
Read the answerATEX filling question library
ATEX filling machine questions: practical answers for buyers and engineers.
Find the page that owns the decision you need to close, from initial hazardous-area need through machine selection, testing and integration.
Use one strong answer page for each decision.
This library does not replace the site’s machine pages, DSEAR assessment or project specification. It helps a buyer find the question owner, understand the variables and prepare evidence for the next engineering discussion.
Hazard and classification
Decide whether the process needs an ATEX review and what the zone information means.
Zones
Understand Zone 1 and Zone 2 equipment decisions
Separate the meaning of the zone from the full equipment duty, location and line boundary.
Read the answerProject boundary
Connect DSEAR duties with the machinery specification
Define workplace, supplier and building-service responsibilities without treating one document as a substitute for another.
Open the guideContainers and dosing
Resolve the physical pack and product behaviour before fixing the station.
Plastic packs
Assess plastic bottles, pails and jerrycans
Understand why an insulating container cannot be treated like an earthed metal drum and what evidence is needed.
Read the answerNozzles
Choose the nozzle and fill profile
Compare top fill, subsurface movement, shut-off, drip control, cleaning and real container access.
Read the answerMeasurement
Compare load-cell and volumetric control
Define whether the accepted quantity is mass or volume and how density, tare and test conditions affect the choice.
Open the comparisonOutput and integration
Turn machine cycles into a complete, testable production route.
Capacity
Calculate sustained filling-line output
Use accepted closed containers, line bottlenecks, interruptions and representative run conditions.
Read the answerRetrofit
Review an existing line for ATEX use
Assess the complete retained system rather than replacing a small number of visible components.
Read the answerControls
Define controls, permissives and safe recovery
Build a cause-and-effect schedule across product flow, extraction, earthing, guards and downstream equipment.
Open the controls guideEvidence and next step
Prepare a question that can be answered with project evidence.
For a machinery recommendation
- Current SDS and product behaviour at the filling temperature.
- Representative containers, closures and required fill range.
- Sustained output and campaign/changeover pattern.
- Available zone drawing, extraction and utility information.
- Existing upstream and downstream equipment to retain.
For a product trial or FAT
- Define what the test is intended to prove.
- Use representative product and pack samples where behaviour matters.
- Agree acceptance rules, measurement method and run duration.
- Record deviations, untested site interfaces and SAT actions.
- Keep the approved evidence with the project specification.
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Product evidence
Start the machinery answer with the right SDS and process information.
What SDS information is needed to specify an ATEX filling machine?
Separate the product-hazard evidence in the SDS from the temperature, release, container, cleaning and hazardous-area information that must come from the real process.
Read the direct answerHow is the complete wetted path approved?
Use a component-level review for tanks, pumps, hoses, seals, valves, metering parts and nozzles rather than relying on one headline material.
Use the compatibility guideNew responsibility questions
Answer two common assumptions before equipment is selected.
What is the difference between ATEX and DSEAR?
See how workplace duties, area classification and equipment evidence fit together.
Is a pneumatic filling machine automatically ATEX safe?
Review mechanical, static, product-release and control risks that compressed air does not remove.
Additional Zone answer
Can a filling machine be installed in Zone 0?
The new answer separates the internal flammable atmosphere from the external machine Zone and explains the equipment evidence required for the highest gas-hazard classification.