Welcome to your essential guide to functional safetycreated specifically for product developers. In a world where technology is increasingly integrated into every aspect of our lives—from industrial robots to autonomous vehicles—the potential harm from product failures makes functional safety not just important, but critical.
This webinar cuts through the complexity and provides a clear understanding of what functional safety really means and why it is so important to product success. We'll start by defining functional safety not in its often confusing official terms, but as a structured methodology for managing risk through defined engineering processes, basic product design requirements, and probabilistic analysis. Polar Star goals? To ensure your The product not only works reliably, but if it fails, it does so in a safe and predictable manner.
We'll dive deeper into two fundamental concepts: Security Lifecyclea detailed design process focused on design quality to minimize systematic failures, and probabilistic, Design for Performance using reliability indicators to minimize random equipment failures. You will learn about IEC 61508foundational functional safety standard, and how numerous industry standards have evolved from it.
The webinar will guide you through the stages of engineering design: hazard analysis and necessary risk reductionimplementing optimal designs and ensuring safe operation. We demystify the concept of performance and critical Safety Integrity Level (SIL)explaining its definition, criteria (systematic capabilities, architectural constraints, PFD), and how this relates to industry priorities.
Discover key design verification techniques such as DFMEA/DDMA and FMEDA, highlighting how these tools help identify and resolve problems early in development. We will describe in detail Technical FMEDA showing how design decisions directly impact predictions such as safety and hazard failure rate, diagnostic coverage, And useful life. Finally, we'll look at Functional Safety Certificationexplaining its purpose, process, and what adjustments to your development process can ensure your success.
