Dur­ing the Free Safety Talks that we did with Schmersal Canada and Frank­lin Empire, we had a “hot ques­tion” come up regard­ing Cat­egory 2 archi­tec­ture and the test­ing inter­val require­ment. In the short video below, Doug answers that ques­tion.

If you have more ques­tions or felt some­thing wasn’t clear in the video, leave us a com­ment and we will get back to you!

If you are hav­ing prob­lems with devel­op­ing your safety func­tion, please get in touch with Doug dir­ectly.

Notes

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References

[1]     Safety of machinery — Safety-related parts of con­trol sys­tems — Part 1: Gen­er­al prin­ciples for design. ISO 13849 – 1. 2015.

[2]     “The Bathtub Curve and Product Fail­ure Beha­vi­or (Part 2 of 2)”, Weibull.com, 2018. [Online]. Avail­able: http://www.weibull.com/hotwire/issue22/hottopics22.htm. [Accessed: 13- May- 2018].

[3]    Ger­man Social Acci­dent Insur­ance (DGUV) – Insti­tute for Occu­pa­tion­al Safety and Health (BGIA), “Func­tion­al safety of machine con­trols — Applic­a­tion of ISO 13849 – 1 — Report 2/2008^e”, Insti­tute for Occu­pa­tion­al Safety and Health (BGIA), Sankt Augustin, DE, 2008.

[4]     “Safety Cir­cuit Examples of Safety Com­pon­ents | Tech­nic­al Guide | Aus­tralia | Omron IA”, Omron.com.au, 2018. [Online]. Avail­able: http://www.omron.com.au/service_support/technical_guide/safety_component/safety_circuit_example.asp. [Accessed: 14- May- 2018].

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