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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: Wireless and cableless are similar but different

Machine Safety: One design for OEMs, globally

Jokab Safety, part of ABB, displayed a giant e-stop at a Pack Expo show a few years ago. CFE Media photo

Machine Safety: e-stop devices versus safety devices

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: Verification is not validation

Might there be global harmony in functional safety standards for machinery? There's a working group for that. Courtesy: Control Engineering Machine Safety Blog, JB Titus and Associates

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Machine Safety: IEC, ISO, ANSI, NFPA, SEMI, ASTM, ASME, NEMA machine safety compliance

Machine Safety: Integrated safety can learn from the 1960s

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

Machine Safety: Networks can enable advancements in machine safety

National Instruments demonstrated Google Glass at NIWeek, August 2013 in Austin, Texas. (www.ni.com) Courtesy: CFE Media, Mark T. Hoske

Machine Safety: Can machine operators be safe with Google Glass?

Machine Safety: enhanced safety networks, the Internet of things, and autonomous safety

Might there be global harmony in functional safety standards for machinery? There's a working group for that. Courtesy: Control Engineering Machine Safety Blog, JB Titus and Associates

Machine safety standard merger: One global machine safety standard

ANSI B11.0 – 2010 Safety of Machinery – General Requirements and Risk Assessment. Cover image used with permission. Courtesy: ANSI

Machine Safety: what is the value of ISO 13849-1 for U.S. domestic compliance?

ANSI B11.0 – 2010 Safety of Machinery – General Requirements and Risk Assessment. Cover image used with permission. Courtesy: ANSI

Machine Safety: safety system validation and daisy divination