本标准的要求仅适用于液压或气动机械，通常称为液压/气动压力机，其通过连接至柱塞或滑块或由其操作的工具或模具传递力以切割、成型或组装金属或其他材料，包括以下设备:手动送料压力机；自动送纸印刷机；用于液压成形、定位或试用的压力机；转印机；串联压力机；生产单元中使用的压力机。本标准的要求不包括:打捆机；冷头；压铸机；锻造压力机和锤子；切纸机；高能率压力机； 卧式液压挤压机；钢铁工人；用于确定材料性能的实验室机器或设备；手动压力机；肉类加工机；机械动力压力机；金属剪；包装机；管子、管子或形状弯曲机；塑料挤出机；塑料注射成型机；粉末金属压力机；电动压闸；印刷机系统；径向膨胀和压缩设备；垃圾压实机和压实机系统；铆压机；辊成型和辊弯机；橡胶机械——液压成型和硫化机；独立压盘机；拉伸成型机；轮胎和内胎硫化机； 焊接机。

The requirements of this standard apply only to those hydraulically or pneumatically powered machines, commonly referred to as hydraulic / pneumatic power presses, which transmit force to cut, form, or assemble metal or other materials by means of tools or dies attached to or operated by plungers or slides, and include the following: manually fed presses; automatically fed presses; presses utilized for hydroforming, spotting or tryout; transfer presses; tandem line presses; presses used in production cells.Excluded from the requirements of this standard are: balers; cold headers; die-casting machines; forging presses and hammers; guillotine paper cutters; high energy rate presses; horizontal hydraulic extrusion presses; iron workers; laboratory machines or equipment used to determine properties of materials; manually powered presses; meat-processing presses; mechanical power presses; metal shears; packaging machines; pipe, tube, or shape bending machines; plastic extrusion machines; plastic injection molding machines; powdered metal presses; powered press brakes; printing press systems; radial expanding and compression equipment; refuse compactors and compactor systems; riveting presses; roll-forming and roll-bending machines; rubber machinery - hydraulic molding and curing presses; stand-alone platen presses; stretch forming machines; tire and tube curing presses; welding machines.