TÜV Rheinland^®

About the course

Engineers who have worked in the field of functional safety for many years have the possibility to obtain an official verification of their expertise. Those candidates who successfully pass a final exam will receive a TÜV Rheinland Functional Safety Engineer Certificate.

This certificate, which is acknowledged worldwide, states that specific knowledge within the field of ‘Hardware/Software Design’ has been achieved.

Course Content:

• IEC 61508 structure and terminology
• Risk Assessment
• Fault Model
• Safety Lifecycle Steps
• System Design and Implementation Requirements
• Random Failure, Systematic Failure
• Documentation
• Failure Rate, Diagnostic Rate, Common Cause Failure
• Calculation of Safety Parameters (PFH, PFD, SFF)
• Functional Safety Management and Functional Safety Assessment

Further Details

Date/Title

• Course date and location are not fixed yet – date and location may change.
  Please check final date and location information late January 2012.
• HW/SW Design acc. to IEC 61508

Course Duration

• 4 days (3.5 day course without the exam)

Course Cost

• $3500 (Includes exam, Training Proceedings, Lunch and Refreshments)
• $3000 (Without Exam, 3.5 day course)

We have also had interest in running a Functional Safety for Machinery course based on the standards IEC 62061 and EN ISO 13849. We are hoping to run this during the week of the 20th of March 2012. This course will be confirmed at the beginning of January 2012. Please let us know if you have interest in this course.

If you have any questions or would like to register your interest please do not hesitate to contact us via the contact form below.