OEMs/Suppliers need to achieve compliance with legal and regulatory safety/security requirements, enhance system safety and security, improve market acceptance, provide competitive advantage and improve efficiency through standardization. ISO 13849 offers a systematic and state of the art approach to designing and assessing safety-related parts of control systems.
VerveTronics has developed ISO 13849 compliant safety certified Fail Operational systems up to SIL3/Ple, which are in production and field use for Major Global OEMs, Tier-1s across US, EU, India, Japan and Australia. Our motto of “Attention to details and focus on precision” has been a key driver to achieve product quality.
ISO 13849 Safety along with Security compliance/certifications was achieved with above par quality, cost effectiveness, lower time to market with help of our safety certified experts, engineers and managers, proven processes, development tool chain environment readiness, verification and validation expertise and setup, software/hardware safety techniques etc.
ISO 13849 Compliance Challenges
ISO 13849 is a globally recognized international state of art standard that focuses on the safety of machinery and the design of safety-related control systems. It provides guidelines for designing and integrating safety-related parts, ensuring that each component achieves functional safety. The standard applies to various technologies, including electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and mechanical, and covers the functional safety of each part within the control system, mitigating risks even in the event of failure. ISO 13849 provides a comprehensive approach to ensuring safety in machinery through well-defined processes, guidelines, and performance metrics, ultimately leading to safer work environments. ISO 13849 is applicable to a wide range of machinery and industries, including manufacturing, automation, and robotics, making it a critical standard for anyone involved in machinery safety
Achieving ISO 13849 compliance with the help of IEC 61508 can be complex, especially with machinery control systems that involve multiple technologies. Companies face challenges in performing accurate risk assessments, designing safety systems that meet performance levels, ,validating those systems to ensure they function correctly and implementing processes with stringent safety requirements. Failure to meet these safety standards can result in increased risks, operational failures, and safety incidents.
Why VerveTronics?
VerveTronics has developed ISO 13849 compliant safety certified Fail Operational systems up to SIL3/Ple, which are in production and field use for Major Global OEMs, Tier-1s across US, EU, India, Japan and Australia. Our motto of “Attention to details and focus on precision” has been a key driver to achieve product quality.
ISO 13849 Safety along with Security compliance/certifications was achieved by VerveTronics with above par quality, cost effectiveness, lower time to market with help of our safety certified experts, engineers and managers, proven processes, development tool chain environment readiness, verification and validation expertise and setup, software/hardware safety techniques etc.
Our expertise includes conducting detailed risk assessments, designing optimized safety designs, and validating complex control systems to meet the necessary Performance Levels. We focus on delivering practical solutions that align with industry standards and improve overall system safety.
By working with VerveTronics, you can:
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- Deep Expertise in Functional Safety: We understand the intricacies of EN 50126, 50128, and 50129, and have a proven track record of helping clients achieve compliance with railway safety standards.
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- End-to-End Solutions: From risk assessments and system design to verification, validation, and certification support, VerveTronics provides comprehensive services to manage the entire safety lifecycle of your railway systems.
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- Reduce the risk of accidents: Correctly Implementing ISO 13849 ensures the safety of your machinery and reduces the likelihood of accidents.
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- Improve Quality: Implementing proven in use processes, templates, techniques by seasoned professionals with efficient usage of industry standard tools ensures above par quality. Following ISO 13849 can help foster a stronger safety culture and create a safer working environment.
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- Lesser Time to Market and Reduce costs: Create optimized designs, proven processes and usage of industry standard tools efficiently ISO 13849 can help you achieve time to market and with cost advantages.
How VT will solve it
We are experts in end to end Safety Product Engineering and Design/Development services from identifying hazards and estimating risk levels, product safety concept to production for ISO 13849 compliance. Our safety design services, and proven processes ensure that your systems comply with ISO 13849 requirements, providing the highest level of protection. Additionally, we validate and verify that your systems meet the required Performance Level (PL), ensuring that your machinery is safe and compliant.
VerveTronics offer a range of services to help you comply with ISO 13849, the international standard for the design and integration of safety-related parts of control systems, including:
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- Safety Requirement Engineering: We elicit and specify the requirements for system safety functions, hardware and software safety requirements including how they should be designed, implemented, and validated to ensure they operate correctly in the event of a fault during Safety Concept with sound requirement engineering and management practices.
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- Safety Analysis and Risk Reduction: We identify potential hazards, faults to estimate risk levels and recommend risk mitigation techniques and measures to reduce risks to an acceptable level. Conducting sound and inadept safety analysis including HARA, System/HW/SW FMEA, DFMEA, FTA, FMEDA, PFH, MTTFd calculations with thorough process and tools is one of our core strengths.
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- Safety Compliant Design and development: Our embedded hardware /software development team in close collaboration with safety engineers designs and develops safety systems that comply with ISO 13849, ensuring the system complies to the requirements from ISO 13849 safety standards.
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- Validation and Verification: We thoroughly validate and verify that your safety systems meet the required Performance Level (PL) through thorough multi-faceted testing and in-depth reviews.
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- Safety management: The systematic development is ensured to achieve the functional safety of systems throughout their lifecycle by safety managers. We manage the safety plan, Roles and Responsibilities, Process improvements, Training and Competence, Safety Reviews and Audits, Change Management with feedback and continuous Improvement by co-ordinating and mentoring stakeholders.
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- Safety Process Compliance: Safety process experts diligently define, improve, implement, monitor, review, audit/assess, coach/mentor teams and improve processes to achieve stringent quality requirements of the safety standards.
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