Sponmech custom design machinery safety guards, machine safety fencing and acoustic enclosures. All built for durability and reliability
**3D CAD Designs using Autodesk Inventor 2026**
At Sponmech, we can deliver fully bespoke machine guarding solutions tailored to each unique site and application. Most projects begin with a site visit, where we measure not just the machine but also its surrounding environment and anything else that might affect the guard design. We then create accurate 3D models that show the guard in context, allowing customers to clearly visualise how it will look and function on their site.
And if things change (as they often do), we respond quickly. In one recent case, a customer flagged a clash with nearby platform support. Within hours, we revised the design, without altering the door openings or overall size…and received immediate approval: “This is a perfect solution, thank you.”
Our speed, flexibility, is what make our design process stand out.
Sponmech have designed and built all kinds of special purpose machine guards.
Our design engineers travel UK-wide to help meet our customers machine guard design requirements.
We've been to Ireland, Yorkshire, Sheffield, Manchester, Liverpool, Bradford, Leeds, Scotland and Coventry to give expert design advice for made-to-measure machine guards.
Our 40 + years of experience in design means that we are experts in providing solutions to customer’s industrial safety and noise problems.
A member of our machine guard design team will come out to you on site to investigate the machine or application in question. They will measure the machine and draw a concept solution for it in 2D or 3D design.
Sponmech Safety Systems design Machine Guards to the following British Standards:
BS EN ISO 14120:2015
BS EN ISO 14120:2015 Safety of Machinery - Guards. This is the main standard for the design and construction of fixed and movable guards. All Sponmech's guarding systems comply with this standard. BS EN ISO 14120:2015 encompasses all machine types, and identifies what aspects of machinery, guarding and machine operator personnel must be considered. Although this is the main British standard for machinery guards, by complying with BS EN ISO 14120:2015, other standards cannot simply be ignored.
BS EN ISO 12100
BS EN ISO 12100:2003+A1:2009 Safety of Machinery. Basic concepts, general principles for design. Basic terminology, methodology.BS EN ISO 12100 provides designers with an overall framework and guidance to enable them to produce machines that are safe for their intended use. It also provides a strategy for standard makers. The concept of safety of machinery considers the ability of a machine to perform its intended function(s) during its lifecycle where risk has been adequately reduced. All our bespoke guarding systems comply with this standard.
BS EN ISO 13857
BS EN ISO 13857:2008 'Safety of machinery. Safety distances to prevent hazard zones being reached by upper and lower limbs'. BS EN ISO 13857 contains tables and data to enable guards to be designed with an acceptable combination of height, horizontal distance from the hazard, and aperture size (for guards with mesh infill, or other openings in guards).
BS EN 614-2
BS EN 614-2:2000+A1:2008, 'Safety of machinery. Ergonomic design principles. Interactions between the design of machinery and work tasks'. This outlines the mental and physical relationship between operators, equipment and devices.
BS EN ISO 15667:2000
All our acoustic enclosures are designed to BS EN ISO 15667:2000
We can design any type of machine guard, it will be tailored to suit your industrial safety needs.
Sponmech uses the very latest inventor package Autodesk Inventor 2026 which means that our design team have the finest tools and equipment to create the very best designs for your custom-built machine guard.
CAD designed machine guard drawings are produced and are sent to the customer for their approval.
Want to find more information about our custom-made machine guards? Call us on 0121 585 8730 and our machine guarding specialists will be able to help you.
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