Functional Safety
New safety standards take into consideration more than machine or process functionality. As safety legislation evolves, standards have been developed to assist industry in achieving not only compliance, but also allowing manufacturers to achieve productivity and flexibility...safely. Safety and productivity are no longer mutually exclusive goals. Utilizing the contemporary technologies and experience in automation from Rockwell Automation, you can be confident that the solutions you adopt will be productive, flexible, compliant and cost effective. Our goal is to help increase your safety as well as increase your value and overall productivity.
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IFA's SISTEMA (Safety Integrity Software Tool for the Evaluation of Machine Applications)
Automate calculation of the attained Performance Level (PL) of the safety related parts of a machine's control system in the context of EN ISO 13849-1.
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Rockwell Automation SISTEMA Libraries for v1.1.4.2
Rockwell Automation has developed libraries to be used with the SISTEMA calculation tool, based on EN ISO 13849-1 for both safety and non-safety components. The SISTEMA tool, developed by Germany's IFA organization, automates calculation of the attained Performance Level (PL) of the safety related parts of a machine's control system in the context of EN ISO 13849-1. SISTEMA is available in English and German language versions and may be downloaded free of charge by following the link to IFA's website.
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Functional Safety Webinars
Join Rockwell Automation for a discussion of machine safety validation methodologies and best practices.
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