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Blog Entry: Why Functional Safety Management is Important for Machine Safety
Functional Safety Management (FSM) is important for a few key reasons. First, it governs the entire machine safety lifecycle. Regardless of which standards we pick, we need to have the management plan in place to make sure we follow those steps and that we do them consistently. Allocating lifecycle responsibilities…
News Item: 2023 exida Automotive Symposium to be held in Germany
It's back! exida is hosting another symposium on automotive safety October 18-20, 2023 at the Arabella Alpenhotel Spitzingsee in Germany. Come and join us to elaborate on the latest developments, concepts, and standards in the automotive industry. Especially automated driving remains an elusive but heavily researched goal of many organizations…
Sarasin Actor - MAC series actuators
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Sarasin Actor - AL Linear series actuators
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Sarasin Actor - ARP Rack & Pinion
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Sarasin Actor - ASC Compact Scotch Yoke
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Sarasin Actor - ASY Scotch Yoke
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
News Item: exida Launches Self-Paced Machine Functional Safety Engineering Course
Sellersville, PA: The global leader in functional safety engineering services and certification, exida, has launched the self-paced training course FSE 110 - Machine Functional Safety Engineering . IEC61508 is the foundation for many industries, including Machine Safety. Today, ISO13849 and IEC62061 are 2 main distinctive standards used as the building…
Blog Entry: Machinery Accidents - Today’s Harsh Reality
During 2017, there were over 36,000 injuries related to machinery in the United States. There were 6200 non-fatal amputations, nearly 60% involving machinery. There were close to 3000 fatalities in 2019. Machine accidents are often overlooked because there aren't multiple fatality explosions or major news events like you see with…
Dixon Bayco Division - FloTech Liquid Level Sensors
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Emerson Process Management - DVC6200 High cv
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Shanghai Envision Digital - Secure Product Development Lifecycle
ISASecure in the Security Automation Equipment List
Univers - Secure Product Development Lifecycle
ISASecure in the Security Automation Equipment List
FieldComm Group - SafeHART
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Recorded Webinars: Safety Lifecycle Overview with exSILentia Part 1: Analysis Phase
The Functional Safety Lifecycle as defined by IEC 61511 provides a method to analyze a process then design and implement a safety instrumented system to protect again high risk hazard scenarios. To perform each task effectively requires a good understanding of any analysis or design done beforehand. This webinar focuses on a simple, practical example starting with definition of risk criteria, Process Hazard Analysis (PHA), Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA), SIL selection and documenting the Safety Requirement Specification (SRS) using the exSILentia Safety Lifecycle Suite.
News Item: INEOS Receives 61511 Certification for Functional Safety Management System
Congrats to INEOS. exida recently issued an IEC 61511 functional safety certification for their Functional Safety Management System. The certificate and assessment report can be found on the exida SAEL here .
Blog Entry: IEC 61508 – Two Key Fundamental Concepts
We want our system to work. We're going to do everything we can to make it work properly. If it doesn't work, we want it to fail in a predictable and hopefully safe manner. If the failure modes are predictable, we can design the equipment to be fail safe. That's…
Lear European Holding, S.L. - Thermal Comfort Systems - ISO/SAE 21434 CSMS
ISO/SAE 21434 in the Security Automation Equipment List
News Item: RG Group Receives 61508 Functional Safety Certification for HPU and Cylinder Systems
Congrats to RG Group. exida recently issued an IEC 61508 functional safety certification for their HPU and Cylinder Systems. The certificate and assessment report can be found on the exida SAEL here .
Blog Entry: Creating a Cyber Hygiene Plan
One of the things that automation companies are beginning to do is to plan for cyber hygiene. More and more companies are implementing automation specific awareness training for their employees. They conduct periodic exercises which like sending phishing emails to see who if you respond. They might leave USB devices…