To a machine designer, “stay safe” is not just a cheerful slogan or wishful thinking. Operator safety is a central design issue. The international standard, ISO 12100:2010 Safety of machinery – ...

Functional safety engineers follow the ISA/IEC 61511 standard and perform calculations based on random hardware failures. These result in very low failure probabilities, which are then combined with ...

With the new generation of sensors, encoders, and controllers now available, engineers have the building blocks to create safer systems with relative ease With the new generation of sensors, encoders, ...

Battery-powered applications, which have become indispensable over the last decade, require a certain level of protection to ensure safe use. This safety is provided by the battery management system ...

Functional safety issues have long been an important part of product development wherever machine operations that are potentially dangerous for humans are carried out unattended. However, in terms of ...

Nowadays, most hardware development projects deploy functional verification flows that include UVM-based constrained-random testbenches and formal verification. High design complexity, tough budget ...

Following a week of web-based meetings in mid-May, the ISA84 standards committee, Instrumented Systems to Achieve Functional Safety in the Process Industries, is moving well ahead in developing and ...

UL has a long tradition of certifying systems for functional safety in the automotive industry. Major automakers worldwide have turned to UL for elements such as battery management systems and ...

Functional safety accounts for time — to build on existing safety structure (category) approaches. As we explored last month in this article series, accounting for time requires more work from safety ...

When Michael Miller, business development manager for safety business at Rockwell Automation, explains what functional safety is, he drills the idea into his audience. “An excellent example of how ...

How functionally safe systems and electronics can help reduce traffic fatalities. What to consider when designing functionally safe systems. Creating a fail-operational architecture. Functionally safe ...

As the first generation of electric vehicles starts to retire en masse, their used batteries—which still have life in them—represent a largely untapped resource. EV battery storage systems can be ...