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Machine Safety: Are machine builders shipping unsafe machines?

December 25, 2014

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?

September 24, 2014

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

Machine Safety: Safety and security combined

September 17, 2014

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

September 13, 2014

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?

August 24, 2014

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?

August 12, 2014

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

August 2, 2014

CE mark, European Union

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

July 25, 2014

Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems - Courtesy: American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA)

Machine safety standards: ANSI Z10 versus new ISO 45001 in late 2016

July 15, 2014

Machine safety experts have begun assessing how cloud computing can play any role in providing machine safety. What about fog computing? Courtesy: Control Engineering Machine Safety Blog, J.B. Titus

Machine Safety: We haven’t finished assessing cloud computing; here comes the fog

July 8, 2014

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,

Discrete Manufacturing

Machine Safety: Which safety circuit design is required?

July 4, 2014

Figure 5 in ISO 13849-1; 2006 clearly shows how these factors can impact a safety circuit’s design.

Machine Safety: Can one channel mitigate a Cat 3/PLd functional requirement?

July 2, 2014

ANSI Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems, ANSI Z10

Discrete Manufacturing

Machine Safety: ANSI Z10-2005 is a concern and an opportunity

July 2, 2014