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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Autonomous vehicles (AVs) will be the culmination of dozens of highly complex systems, incorporating state-of-the-art technologies in electronics hardware, sensors, software, and more. Conceiving and ...

Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. “Ensuring safety on the road is not just a duty; it’s a commitment to protecting lives and fostering trust in automotive technology,” ...

Members can download this article in PDF format. Intelligent robotic systems are bringing great gains in productivity to the factory floor. However, they also present collision hazards that could ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Automotive stakeholders such as OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers must observe functional safety (FuSa) as a practice across their organization. Easier said than done, implementing ISO 26262 compliant FuSa ...

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 – ...

“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 ...

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 ...