Overview - Functional Safety of Machinery (IEC 62061)

What you'll learn

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Understand the purpose and structure of IEC 62061
Position IEC 62061 within the machinery safety landscape
Understand risk assessment and required Safety Integrity Levels
Define safety functions and safety Requirements

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Understand safety-related control system architectures
Explain hardware safety integrity and probabilistic failure measures
Understand systematic safety integrity and software considerations
Apply verification and validation principles to safety-related systems
Requirements

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No previous IEC 62061 knowledge required
Basic technical understanding is helpful
General interest in machinery or functional safety
No advanced mathematics required
No programming knowledge required
No specialized engineering software required
Description

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This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
Understand IEC 62061 and the engineering principles behind functional safety of machinery.
Modern machinery increasingly relies on electrical, electronic and programmable electronic control systems to perform safety-related functions. IEC 62061 provides a systematic framework for designing, implementing and validating safety-related control systems for machinery.
This course provides a structured and practical introduction toIEC 62061 and functional safety in machinery applications.
We begin with the fundamentals of machinery safety and explain how IEC 62061 fits into the broader safety standards landscape, including its relationship withISO 12100 and ISO 13849.
You will then learn how risk assessment leads to the identification of safety functions and how the requiredSafety Integrity Level (SIL) is determined. We examine how safety Requirements

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are specified and allocated to the elements of a safety-related control system.
From there, the course explores the engineering principles behind system and subsystem design. You will learn about architecture, hardware fault tolerance, safe failure fraction, diagnostic coverage and common cause failures, as well as the probabilistic measures used to evaluate dangerous failures.
The course also addressessystematic safety integrity, software considerations and the additional engineering measures required to maintain confidence in safety-related functionality throughout development.
Finally, we bring the complete process together through verification, validation and a practical machinery example.
Rather than simply presenting individual Requirements

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, this course focuses on understanding theengineering logic behind IEC 62061 and how the different concepts interact throughout the functional safety lifecycle.
Who this course is for

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Functional safety and machinery safety engineers
Systems and control engineers
Automation and electrical engineers
Software and hardware engineers
Verification, validation and quality professionals
Engineering students and technical professionals
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