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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: Design a safer machine with risk assessments

Safety automation adoption, like other technologies, has early adopters, who can reap more benefits sooner than those who wait, according to this graphic for the Control Engineering Machine Safety Blog, from J.B. Titus.

Machine Safety: System integrators report shortage of safety resources

Workforce Development

Machine Safety: Has China caught the machine safety bug?

Machine Safety: Domestic U.S. versus international standards

Machine safety and layers of protection

Strategies like “Best In Class” and “Overall Equipment Effectiveness” (OEE) bring together business macro’s like Social Responsibilities and Business Strategy KPI’s with a key common focus called – Machine Safety. Courtesy: JB Titus & Associates

Machine safety: Will applying OEE improve safety, compliance, and profits?

Machine Safety: A dashboard would help balance safety and compliance with profitability

System Integrators

Machine safety: NRTL certified convergence of machine control and the safety-related parts combined

System Integrators

Machine Safety: For a safe machine, I’ll just install a small safety PLC

Discrete Manufacturing

Machine Safety: Actuator controls versus machine actuators

Machine Safety: Are you farming out the designing in of functional safety component requirements?

RIA robotic safety standard was discussed at PACK EXPO 2012. Courtesy: CFE Media

Workforce Development

Machine Safety: Robotic Industries Association updates safety requirements for robots