Machinery Safety 101
27 February, 2017

ISO 13849 – 1 Analysis — Part 5: Diagnostic Coverage (DC)

by Doug Nix
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A graph showing the theoretical "bathtub curve" for product failure rate over the lifetime of the product.
This entry is part 5 of 9 in the series How to do a 13849 – 1 ana­lys­is

Post updated 2019-07-24. Ed. What is Dia­gnost­ic Cov­er­age? Under­stand­ing Dia­gnost­ic Cov­er­age (DC) as it is used in ISO 13849 – 1 [1] is crit­ic­al to ana­lys­ing the design of any safety func­tion assessed using this stand­ard. In case you missed a pre­vi­ous part of the series, you can read it here. In the last instal­ment of this series dis­cuss­ing…

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