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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 strategy: Stay the course or change?

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

Machine Safety: A new international standard for interlocking devices on guards – ISO 14119: 2013

An improved safety culture, advocated at the business level with engineering input, can bring about faster adoption of proven machine safety technologies, improving safety, and adding economic value. Courtesy: JB Titus & Associates

Machine Safety: Has Moore’s Law helped?

Safety automation for machine control graphic shows technology and reliability adoption over time, according to J.B. Titus. Courtesy: Control Engineering Machine Safety blog

Machine Safety: You can have both safety and productivity

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

Machine Safety: Thinking of bypassing an e-stop? Have you talked to an attorney?

Machine Safety: Industry 4.0 and how it could impact machine safety

Machine Safety: If only OSHA regulations are law, what are ANSI consensus standards?

CFE Media Apps for Engineers

Machine Safety: When workers use their own devices

Machine Safety: When should 2 mechanical safety switches be used on an access door?

Omron Safety Door Switches

Machine Safety: Discourage the defeating of safety interlocks

Machine Safety: Legal advice and safety automation projects

Machine Safety: Near-miss events and residual risk