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MMA Certified Program Monorail Manufacturers Association

SECTION 6 – Glossary

The following terms, phrases and words may apply to MMA Certified:

  • 6.1 Adequate Product Liability Insurance – An amount of liability insurance that covers the design and manufacture of products that are subject to MMA Certified and that provides the Applicant protection from potential liability associated with the Applicant’s products that are MMA Certified and that names MMA and MHI as “additional insureds.”

    The strict interpretation is that the Applicant has determined an appropriate level of liability coverage requirement and has obtained a liability insurance policy in that amount. As proof, the Applicant must provide a Certificate of Insurance naming Material Handling Industry (MHI) and the Monorail Manufacturers Association (MMA) as additional insureds on the liability policy. It is not the role of Staff to audit or maintain such documents, only to confirm their existence. It is the Applicant’s burden to maintain these documents as current and provide Staff updated documents as changes occur.
  • 6.2 Applicable Standard(s) – The Standard(s) that apply to the product in question. MH27.1 for patented track products and MH27.2 for enclosed track products.
  • 6.3 Applicant – Company applying for the MMA-Certified License.
  • 6.4 Certified Configuration – Product version earning MMA-Certified.
  • 6.5 Cognizant – The term is used to describe the Professional Engineer who performs the evaluation and attests to conformance as having awareness, realization, and knowledge of the technical aspects of monorail products.
  • 6.6 Declaration of Conformity – Two documents, one Technical and the other Service and Support, which attest to compliance with the MMA-Certified Program.
  • 6.7 Due Diligence Evaluation – The process by which the MMA Managing Executive investigates and verifies the Applicant’s submissions.
  • 6.8 Hold Harmless Agreement – The contract by which Applicants and Licensees agree to indemnify MMA, MHIA, and its officers, executives, and members from all claims or costs relating to the MMA Certified Program.
  • 6.9 Issuing Agent – The Professional Engineer who signs and seals the Declaration of Conformity and who certifies that the product or product family of like design complies with the Applicable Standard(s).
  • 6.10 License – The permission by MMA to Licensee that it has the rights to display and to promote its qualifying products as MMA-Certified.
  • 6.11 License Agreement - Contract between MMA and Licensee agreeing to the conditions of the award of MMA-Certified.
  • 6.12 Licensee – Successful Applicant.
  • 6.13 Life Cycle of the Product – The time commencing with a product’s release into the stream of commercial market to its withdrawal from the market.
  • 6.14 Manufacture – Taking raw material or semi-finished material and through the performance of processes involving engineering and design, fabricating, converting or producing therefrom semi-finished or finished workstation bridge cranes or patented track systems for sale commercially. “Manufacture” is not merely assembling or combining components manufactured by others.
  • 6.15 Marked products – Products for which the MMA-Certified Mark have been licensed.
  • 6.16 Member – A company that is a member of MMA.
  • 6.17 MH27.1 or MH 27.2 – The ANSI standards that are recognized by MMA.
  • 6.18 MMA – Monorail Manufacturers Association, an Affiliated Trade Association of the Material Handling Industry of America.
  • 6.19 MMA By-Laws – The rules by which the MMA governs itself.
  • 6.20 MMA-Certified – The program for allowing Monorail products to gain a measure of proof of compliance to the Applicable Standard(s).
  • 6.21 MMA-Certified Mark – The trade mark that Licensees are authorized to use and to display in association with such product or product family of like design that qualifies for the MMA-Certified status.
  • 6.22 MMA-Certified Program – Program by which a monorail product can gain MMA-Certified status.
  • 6.23 Product Family of Like Design – A number of products sharing brand, fundamental design objectives, styling, performance and operating characteristics.
  • 6.24 Professional Engineer – A person who has gained registration and is licensed as a Professional Engineer in the United States.
  • 6.25 Qualified Product – A product that has been approved and is covered by the License.
  • 6.26 Qualified Service & Repair Capabilities – The service and repairs that the Applicant offers to meet its obligations in providing safe and effective service and repairs for its products.
  • 6.27 Reaffirmed – The process of completion and submitting a new Declaration of Conformity in accordance with Section 3 above.
  • 6.28 Sign and Seal – The Professional Engineer’s attestation as to the compliance of the product to the Applicable Standard(s), in accordance with the rules and regulations governing the institution by which the Professional Engineer is licensed.
  • 6.29 Significant Design Change – A change to the design of product covered by the License that could affect the compliance of the product with the Applicable Standard.
  • 6.30 Technical File – The Professional Engineer’s work product that substantiates and documents his verifications, conclusions and related attestations that the product complies with the Applicable Standard(s).
  • 6.31 Verify – Taking appropriate steps and actions including evaluation, analysis, calculation, and tests, to confirm that the product complies with the Applicable Standard(s).