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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: Is prevention through design enough?

Control Engineering Cover story: Consumer-grade smartphones and tablet computers are fast becoming commonplace extensions of industrial networks.

Machine Safety: Can hand held devices play a role?

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: Managing operational risk

Machine Safety: Does sustainability matter?

Machine Safety: Protection is better than a cure

Machine Safety: OSHA Top 10 Violations for 2012

Machine Safety: More on shared responsibilities

This Lockout Center board is used at the Yaskawa America Oak Creek, Wis., plant. CFE Media photo: Mark T. Hoske

Machine Safety: Does multitasking provide an effective illusion of safety?

Machine Safety: Can end user companies comply with ISO 13849-1: 2006 without design engineering resources?

Machine Safety: Is upgrading to solid state enough?

Machine safety: Confusion amuck, quantitative circuit design versus qualitative risk assessment

Jokab Safety giant E-Stop at Pack Expo 2010

Machine Safety – does new technology create new hazards?