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DVD - Hardware Safety System Constraints Made Easy

An in-depth training course on IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 key hardware design concept

This DVD course is a preparation course for the FSCC - Functional Safety for SIS Professionals training course of the TUV Functional Safety Certification Program.

Risknowlogy offers a DVD explaining the hardware safety concepts as intended by IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 standards in an easy–to-understand format. Topics covered are

  • What parameters are available when designing hardware
  • What hardware concepts do the standards address
  • What constraints do the standards put on hardware design

Test your knowledge with a QUIZ including over 25 questions on a variety of topics covered in the DVD. This DVD is suitable for all professionals across industry sectors who develop, manufacture, sell, integrate or use safety devices and systems.

When following and completing the course in its entirety, the viewer will learn and understanding

  • Functional safety and applicable concepts
  • Difference between energize and de-energize to trip
  • Low demand and high demand
  • Demand mode and continuous mode
  • PFD and relation to SIL, PFS to STLTM
  • Redundancy, diversity, voting and hardware fault tolerance
  • Difference between type A and type B systems
  • How failures are revealed in safety systems
  • Proof tests and diagnostic tests
  • Safe Failure Fraction, SFF
  • Architectural constraints according to IEC 61508 and IEC 61511
  • Why reliability engineering is important

Bonus material:

  • A quiz with 27 questions
  • Overview of the Spurious Trip Level® concept
  • Interview with Dr. Michel Houtermans in Paris

The DVD is available online in our shop for 95.00 EUR or buy it from amazon.de.

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