Currently, dramatically increasing design costs are being reported for safety-critical applications. This is caused by additional necessary actions to implement and verify functional safety ...

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Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss functional safety thinking, techniques and approaches to automation with Mike Stellfox, Fellow at Cadence; Bryan Ramirez, strategic marketing manager at ...

The International Certification Course qualifies participants as “Certified Functional Safety Expert (CFSE) for Electrical ...

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, ...

Increasingly stringent safety regulations (for example, the emerging IEC 61508 standard) are driving expansion in the market for machine safety products and technologies. As demand increases for ...

Stuart Nunns has been awarded TÜV Functional Safety Expert status by TÜV Rheinland. Nunns is principal safety consultant for ABB and one of only 25 people worldwide to be named as a Functional Safety ...

Sponsored by Texas Instruments: Three categories of ICs and an input-module design example give a boost to the functional safety of robotic and other factory-automation systems. Intelligent robotic ...

Has the time come to call a truce between functional safety and Agile software development? In my first real software job in the early 1980s, I worked in a company that made metrology equipment. At ...

“I’m not really an HSE professional,” explained Shawn Hopkins, global behavior and culture safety leader at Procter and Gamble (P&G). “I’m really an engineer in an HSE leadership role.” On the literal ...