When designing or verifying a safety instrumented function (SIF), it’s common to hear terms such as PFDavg (average ...

A measurement of the effectiveness of safety systems based on the probability of tolerable incidents that can occur within a number of processing demands. For example, SIL level 4 means that for ...

Fortunately, functional safety standards such as ISO 26262 help guide automotive design to reduce unreasonable risk due to hazards caused by malfunctioning behavior of electrical and electronic ...

The methodology applied changes hugely from company to company and project to project, depending on the expertise available, application domain, and target safety integrity level.

When designed, installed, operated, tested and maintained in accordance with IEC 61511 standards, the Diamond-SIS provides >99.9% availability, says the vendor. It has been certified by Factory Mutual ...

Following a week of web-based meetings in mid-May, the ISA84 standards committee, Instrumented Systems to Achieve Functional Safety in the Process Industries, is moving well ahead in developing and ...

TüV Rheinland Certifies the QNX ® Hypervisor 2.0 for Safety with ISO 26262 Functional Safety Integrity Level (ASIL D) "The world's leading automakers, their Tier 1 suppliers, chip manufacturers ...

Emerson has announced the new PACSystems RX3i CPS400 Safety Controller, designed to enable Safety Integrity Level 2 (SIL2) strategies for infrastructure, fire and gas, burner management systems and ...

In the automotive world, safety risks are classified by automotive safety integrity level (ASIL) according to ISO 26262, ranging from ASIL-A to ASIL-D, the highest level, applicable to components or ...

ASIL, or automotive safety integrity level, is a global standard that evaluates the functional safety of electrical and electronic systems in vehicles.