Functional safety systems
What are functional safety systems?
Functional safety involves managing the life cycle of a safety system design to ensure it functions safely throughout its operational life. Functional safety is applicable to all industries and is increasingly in demand as manufacturers and end users look to mitigate risk.
Proeon provides support and implements IEC 61508 and IEC 61511, the international standards for functional safety of electrical, electronic and programmable electronic safety-related systems. Our expertise in developing functional safety systems enables us to provide support from product design to performance and safety assessments.
Our functional safety services
- The provision of safety systems for machinery and process industries up to SIL2 and SIL3
- Support for clients seeking to meet particular directives, requirements or recommendations from industry organisations, insurers or regulatory bodies
- Support for product designers and businesses looking to ensure product safety
- An independent certifying service for IEC 61508 compliant systems supplied by third parties
Systems that are required to comply with the functional safety standards are used in the industrial machinery, process control, hazardous locations, appliances, medical, transportation, utilities, chemical and pharmaceutical industries.
Safety systems
Examples of functional safety systems provided include fire and gas systems for offshore platforms and network safety systems for catenary tubing. They are designed and built using appropriate hardware and software tools from suppliers such as Siemens, Rockwell Automation and Scame Sistemi.
Legacy systems
Safety systems have evolved since their introduction in the 1960s and now must comply with the requirements of IEC 61508 and the derivative application standards. We can review systems to identify areas of improvement and demonstrating compliance with current standards.
We partner with several associated companies to provide a broader range of functional safety services.
- process hazard assessment
- functional safety assessments
- safety requirements specifications
- quantitative risk assessment
- SIL determination
- SIL verification
- safety instruments systems (SIS) conceptual design
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