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News Item: exida Automotive Symposium 2025: Where the Future of Automotive Safety and AI Meets the Bavarian Alps
Join us from October 27-29 for the premier event in Automotive Functional Safety, Cybersecurity, and AI: the exida Automotive Symposium 2025 . This isn't your typical conference. We're gathering in an enchanting mountain village in the heart of the Bavarian Alps, an extraordinary setting designed to spark creativity and collaboration.…
News Item: Catch exida at CRA-Conf & CySecMed 2025 in Munich: CRA Compliance and Medical Device Cybersecurity
exida experts are headed to Munich, Germany for a week of presentations at two key conferences, CRA-Conf 2025 and CySecMed 2025 . Don't miss the chance to learn from our specialists on October 14-15! Here's a look at what we'll be presenting: CySecMed 2025 Title: From Risk to Reality: Strengthening…
Arm Technology (China) Co., Ltd. - SHANHAI-S30FP TrustEngine (TE-900 / BENDIAN)
ISO 26262 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. - Qualcomm Automotive Module QAM8255P
ISO 26262 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. - Qualcomm Automotive Module QAM8775P
ISO 26262 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Recorded Webinars: Process Safety & Functional Safety: A Tale of Two Disciplines
Do you really understand the difference between “process safety” and “functional safety”? This webinar will clear up the confusion as it applies to high-risk industrial environments such as chemical processing, oil and gas, and power generation. We'll start by exploring the key standards and guidelines that govern each discipline.
We'll then dive into a detailed comparison, reviewing the similarities and crucial differences between these two safety methodologies. The goal is to provide a clear understanding of how organizations can effectively integrate both process and functional safety strategies to manage hazards, prevent incidents like fires, explosions, and toxic releases, and ultimately create a more robust safety culture. Join us to learn how to correctly identify and apply these distinct but complementary disciplines for a safer operational environment.
White Paper: Unlocking FMEDA Efficiency: How a Few Components Dominate Failure Rates
This whitepaper tackles a major challenge in safety product design: the task of performing a detailed Failure Modes, Effects, and Diagnostic Analysis ( FMEDA ) on products with a vast number of components. It demonstrates a practical solution by applying the Pareto principle (the 80/20 rule), which allows designers to…
White Paper: Beyond the Weakest Link: Designing for Reliability with Smart Capacitor Management
This whitepaper explores the critical role of the electrolytic capacitor as the “weakest link” in a product's useful life. It details how environmental factors, specifically thermal and voltage impacts, can significantly reduce a capacitor's longevity. By applying appropriate derating techniques, designers can mitigate these effects and extend the product's useful…
Recorded Webinars: Designing for Functional Safety: A Developer’s Introduction
Welcome to your essential guide to functional safety, tailored specifically for product developers. In a world where technology is increasingly integrated into every aspect of our lives—from industrial robots to autonomous vehicles—the potential for harm from product malfunctions makes functional safety not just important, but critical.
This webinar cuts through the complexity to provide a clear understanding of what functional safety truly entails and why it's critical for product success. We'll start by defining functional safety not by its often-confusing official terms, but as a structured methodology for managing risk through defined engineering processes, essential product design requirements, and probabilistic analysis. The “north star” goals? To ensure your product not only works reliably but, if it does fail, it does so in a safe and predictable manner.
We'll dive into two fundamental concepts: the Safety Lifecycle, a detailed engineering process focused on design quality to minimize systematic failures, and Probabilistic, Performance-Based Design using reliability metrics to minimize random hardware failures. You'll learn about IEC 61508, the foundational standard for functional safety, and how numerous industry-specific standards derive from it.
The webinar will walk you through the Engineering Design phases: analyzing hazards and required risk reduction, realizing optimal designs, and ensuring safe operation. We'll demystify the Performance Concept and the critical Safety Integrity Level (SIL), explaining its definition, criteria (systematic capability, architectural constraints, PFD), and how it relates to industry-specific priorities.
Discover key Design Verification techniques like DFMEA/DDMA and FMEDA, emphasizing how these tools help identify and address problems early in development. We'll detail the FMEDA technique showing how design decisions directly impact predictions like safe and dangerous failure rates, diagnostic coverage, and useful life. Finally, we'll cover Functional Safety Certification, explaining its purpose, process, and what adjustments to your development process can set you up for success.
News Item: exida Expert to Keynote at European Space Agency Conference
Sellersvile, PA - exida is excited to announce that Dr. Molly O’Brien, part of a team of experts developing a certification scheme for Safety Functions that include Machine Learning (ML), will deliver a keynote presentation at the European Space Agency's (ESA) Software Product Assurance Conference . The event, which brings…
Recorded Webinars: How Does a SIF Achieve its SIL Target
For A Safety Instrumented Function (SIF) to achieve its target SIL, the IEC61511 standard requires that it meets three design requirements: PFDavg/PFH, Architectural Constraints and Systematic Capability. Many people consider meeting the PFDavg/PFH target sufficient, but this is not the case. A SIF is an Independent Protection Layer (IPL), which is required to satisfy 4 requirements:
S – must be specifically designed to prevent the consequence of the hazardous event
I – must be completely Independent from all other IPLs
D – must be designed to have sufficient defense against random and systematic failures
A – must be auditable in terms of being able to be tested and maintained
Therefore, meeting the random hardware failure dependability is the PFDavg/PFH and meeting the systematic failure dependability is the Systematic capability. The architectural constraint requirement is required to counteract any unrealist parameters used in the PFDavg/PFH calculations and determines the level of Hardware Fault Tolerance (HFT) required. The webinar examines what’s involved with determining the PFDavg/PFH and the 9 key variables associated with this, as well as the importance of tracking Useful Life, and how to determine the HFT using the tables in IEC61508 or the table in IEC61511. It also looks at equipment qualification for the SIF and the use of IEC61508 certified devices or Prior Use justification to meet the systematic requirements.
What you will learn?
- What is involved with determining the SIL achieved by the SIF
- The importance of meeting the 3 design requirements
- How to meet the systematic requirement
- How to justify use of the equipment
Who should attend?
- SIS designers and Engineering contractors
- SIS maintenance personnel
- Plant Managers and Supervisors
Blog Entry: How Does A SIF Achieve its SIL Target?
This is a question I’ve been asked many times, with some stating that as long as the PFDavg (or PFH) meets the target SIL then that’s fine. Whereas this statement is partially true, it is not the full answer. IEC61511 defines the criteria for meeting the requirements of an Independent…
News Item: exida Appoints Richard (Richie) Butler as Country Manager for UK and Ireland
SELLERSVILLE, PA — exida, a global leader in functional safety, cybersecurity, and alarm management, is pleased to announce the appointment of Richard (Richie) Butler as the new Country Manager for the UK and Ireland. Born and raised in the south of the county but currently residing in North Tipperary, Ireland,…
KF Valves - Series FE Floating Ball Valves and Series M3 Trunnion Mounted Ball Valves
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
SVF Flow Controls - B8, H7, FB9, R8, SB7, SB7F, B41D, and B42D 2-Way Floating Ball Valves
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
SVF Flow Controls - TSB7 & TSB7F 3-Way Floating Ball Valves
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
SVF Flow Controls - AERO2 Pneumatic Rack & Pinion Actuator
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
SVF Flow Controls - QUAD4 Pneumatic Rack & Pinion Actuator
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Recorded Webinars: NERC CIP Cybersecurity: A Deep Dive into Power Grid Protection and Beyond
This webinar offers an in-depth exploration of the NERC Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) standards, the enforceable cybersecurity framework for the power industry across the U.S. and parts of Canada. We'll break down the structure of these standards and their applicability, including the criticality tiers (Low, Medium, and High) that determine the required level of protection for a site based on its potential impact on the power grid.
You'll gain a clear understanding of the key requirements of NERC CIP and how they compare to the IEC 62443 cybersecurity standards, highlighting areas of alignment and key differences. Most importantly, we'll discuss the valuable takeaways from NERC CIP—not just for regulated power sites but also for other industries looking to enhance their own cybersecurity posture. Join us to learn how to apply these powerful insights to protect critical infrastructure.
Blog Entry: The Future of Safety Management: Embracing Digital O&M Data
In today’s world, having your Operation and Maintenance (O&M) data in a digital format allows for increased accessibility and traceability. Using more traditional recordings, such as on paper or with various Excel notebooks, increases the chances of error or loss of data. These methods also make it difficult to analyze…