• BS EN 62491:2008

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    Industrial systems, installations and equipment and industrial products. Labelling of cables and cores

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    Published date:  31-01-2009

    Publisher:  British Standards Institution

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    INTRODUCTION
    1 Scope
    2 Normative references
    3 Terms and definitions
    4 Rules
       4.1 General requirements
       4.2 Use of designated cable cores
       4.3 Use of additional labelling
    5 Identification labelling
       5.1 General
    6 Connection labelling
       6.1 General
       6.2 Local-end connection labelling
       6.3 Remote-end connection labelling
       6.4 Both-end connection labelling
    7 Signal labelling
       7.1 General
       7.2 Labelling by signal designation
       7.3 Labelling of cables for certain designated conductors
    8 Composite labelling
    9 Arrangement of additional labelling
       9.1 General
       9.2 Relative positions of the labelling
       9.3 Characters to be used
    10 Correspondence between labelling and documentation
    11 Conformance to this standard
    Annex A (informative) - Examples of labeling
    Bibliography
    Annex ZA (normative) - Normative references to international
             publications with their corresponding European
             publications

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    Gives rules and guidelines for the labelling of cables and cores/conductors used in industrial installations, equipment and products, in order to maintain a clear relation between the technical documentation and the actual equipment and for other purposes.

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    IEC 62491:2008 provides rules and guidelines for the labelling of cables and cores/conductors used in industrial installations, equipment and products, in order to maintain a clear relation between the technical documentation and the actual equipment and for other purposes. International Standard IEC 62491 has been prepared by IEC technical committee 3: Information structures, documentation and graphical symbols.

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    Committee GEL/3
    Development Note Supersedes 07/30160937 DC. (02/2009)
    Document Type Standard
    Publisher British Standards Institution
    Status Current
    Supersedes

    Standards Referencing This Book - (Show below) - (Hide below)

    EN 60446:2007 Basic and safety principles for man-machine interface, marking and identification - Identification of conductors by colours or alphanumerics
    IEC 60050-195:1998 International Electrotechnical Vocabulary (IEV) - Part 195: Earthing and protection against electric shock
    IEC 61175:2005 Industrial systems, installations and equipment and industrial products - Designation of signals
    IEC 60050-151:2001 International Electrotechnical Vocabulary (IEV) - Part 151: Electrical and magnetic devices
    IEC 81346-1:2009 Industrial systems, installations and equipment and industrial products - Structuring principles and reference designations - Part 1: Basic rules
    IEC 61082-1:2014 RLV Preparation of documents used in electrotechnology - Part 1: Rules
    IEC 60757:1983 Code for designation of colours
    HD 457 : 200S1 CODE FOR DESIGNATION OF COLOURS
    EN 61666:2010 Industrial systems, installations and equipment and industrial products - Identification of terminals within a system
    EN 61082-1:2015 Preparation of documents used in electrotechnology - Part 1: Rules
    ISO/IEC 646:1991 Information technology ISO 7-bit coded character set for information interchange
    IEC 60050-461:2008 International Electrotechnical Vocabulary (IEV) - Part 461: Electric cables
    EN 61175:2005 Industrial systems, installations and equipment and industrial products - Designation of signals
    IEC 61666:2010 Industrial systems, installations and equipment and industrial products - Identification of terminals within a system
    IEC 60445:2017 Basic and safety principles for man-machine interface, marking and identification - Identification of equipment terminals, conductor terminations and conductors
    IEC 60050-581:2008 International Electrotechnical Vocabulary (IEV) - Part 581: Electromechanical components for electronic equipment
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