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Trainings / Workshops
The training consists of a two day course and can have up to 15 participants.
The following content is a suggestion. Any alterations and additions can be included in the program.
1. Introduction
- Functional safety of electrical, electronic and programmable systems
- Approval and certification procedure
- Examples of some application areas of "safety related systems"
2. General Considerations
- Overview of relevant standards
- Generic standards
- Application dependant standards
- Technology dependant standards
- EU-directives, international standards
- Comparison of the different standards
3. Safety Philosophy
- Risk definition, risk reduction
- Introduction of different risk classes
- Safety class and Safety integrity level (SIL)
- Safety categories
- Comparison and relations
- Examples for different applications
- Process industry
- Furnaces, burner control
- Machinery
4. EU-Directives and Standards
- Contents of the standards, general method, requirements
- Machinery directive, EMC directive, low voltage directive
- ISO 13849-1, IEC62061, EN 60204
5. International Standard IEC 61508
- General method, requirements
- Life cycle of safety related systems
- Definition and understanding of the SIL level
- Consideration of failure modes
- Random
- Systematic
- Handling
- Operation
- Environmental
- Definition of measures against failures
- Fault avoidance
- Fault detection and reaction (control)
- Comparison deterministic, probabilistic approach
- Design, Development and production phase
- System (safety) requirement specification
- Validation & verification plan
- Contents and examples
- Selection of necessary measures with consideration of the influence by the application (process) and programmable system during the design, development and production process
- Examples
- HW-design and verification
- SW-design and verification
- Conditions for the phases
- Setting into operation
- Operation
6. Safety Related Bus Systems
- Application of the IEC 61508, IEC62061 and EN 50159 methods and measures to bus-systems
- Principles for the use of bus systems
- Deterministic approach
- Transmission errors, hardware failure (random), systematic failure
- Probabilistic approach to achieve a certain amount of data integrity
- Reliability of data transmission
- Bit error probability
- Error probability and error detection
- Different bus architectures
- Examples
Additional requirements by the customer can be agreed upon.
Date of Training
Can be determined individually, but a preparation time of four weeks has to be considered.
