But with the adoption of the European Union’s new Machinery Directive, and its switch from EN 954 to ISO 13849, there is increasing interest among manufacturers in establishing Performance Levels for ...

A measurement of the effectiveness of safety systems based on the probability of tolerable incidents that can occur within a number of processing demands. For example, SIL level 4 means that for every ...

SIL certification identifies all process hazards, estimates the risk of failure and determines that if a failure occurs; that the product will “fail safely.” Every component in an instrument must be ...

Advanced Design and Safety Integrity Level (SIL) Verification (EC54) focuses on detailed design issues and hands-on system analysis and modeling examples. Students will learn to analyze a system’s ...

In the 1980’s, the use of programmable electronic components such as microcontrollers (MCUs) and microprocessors in industrial control systems began to grow. The International Electrotechnical ...

Based on the foundational IEC 61508 standard’s essential requirements, high-performance supervisory circuits can facilitate functional-safety compliance in safety instrumented systems and other ...

As the automotive industry accelerates innovation toward fully autonomous vehicles, one of the underlying values of this effort will be safer roadways. Nine in 10 ...