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Machine Safety: Are machine builders shipping unsafe machines?

Functional safety life cycle: 1) Perform risk assessment 2) Examine functional requirements 3) Design and verify mitigation 4) Install and validate 5) Manage, change, and improve. Courtesy: Control Engineering Machine Safety Blog, JB Titus & Associates

Machine Safety: Risk of an actuator wired to general machine control versus safety controller

Think about machine safety. Danger! Machine without brain requires yours. Courtesy: J.B. Titus and Associates

Machine Safety: ISO 13849-1 status, interlock switch safety

Control Engineering machine control - robotic icon

Machine Safety: 12 hazards of unused machinery

Machine Safety: Identify machine safety standards for your business

Machine Safety: What is your safety elevator pitch?

Cost of reducing cyber security risk needs to be factored into any technology transition. Courtesy: Control Engineering

Machine Safety: Safety and security combined

Why don’t more people heed the yellow line more often in a manufacturing setting? They do at the train station. Courtesy: Control Engineering

Machine Safety: Crossing the yellow line

Machine safety standards are in levels: A) Basic safety standards apply to industry, B) Group safety standards apply to a defined group or type of machinery, and C) Specialists standards apply to one specific kind of machine, such as mechanical stamping,

Machine Safety: Which takes precedence, a Type-B or a Type-C safety standard?

Functional safety life cycle: 1) Perform risk assessment 2) Examine functional requirements 3) Design and verify mitigation 4) Install and validate 5) Manage, change, and improve. Courtesy: Control Engineering Machine Safety Blog, JB Titus & Associates

Machine Safety and safety maturity: Are you safe without injuries?

Machine Safety: Do not tell employees that a safety compliant machine is safe

CE mark, European Union

Machine Safety: Does a CE mark make a machine safe?