- by Loren Stewart, CFSE
- Wednesday, June 26, 2019
- Functional Safety
Back to Basics 11 – How is SIL Used by an End User?
IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 functional safety standards allow Safety Integrity Levels (SIL) to be used four ways by end users:
- To establish risk reduction requirements - How much risk needs/can be removed from the process to achieve a tolerable risk level? (For more…
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- by Loren Stewart, CFSE
- Tuesday, September 22, 2015
- Certification
How is SIL Used?
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Once the Safety Integrety Level (SIL) of a product is found, it will be used FOUR ways:
- To establish risk reduction requirements
- Probabilistic limits for hardware random failure
- Architectural constraints
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