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Dealing with the requirements for reliable system safety analysis

Expand your knowledge within this area, Automotive IQ has conducted an exclusive free interview with Dr. Joakim Fröberg is a Senior Researcher at SICS Swedish ICT, the Swedish institute of computer science.

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Bauer Maschinen discuss functional safety status quo and outlook

Expand your knowledge within the area of functional safety, with this presentation by Thomas Elsner, Head of Development at Bauer Maschinen GmbH in Germany on the topic of: "Functional safety – how safe is safe?". 

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Presentation by Pierre Loisy, Safety Manager at Volvo Construction Equipment

Pierre Loisy acts as Functional Safety Manager at the sub-division of compact excavators, Volvo Construction Equipment (VCE). He handles the process leading to the verification of functional safety requirements for both the hardware and software embedded control platforms in the frame of the CE mark. Mr. Loisy shares his time between supporting product development teams, personal and in-house collaborative investigation of advanced assessment and verification techniques through exploring various functional safety standards. Download his full presentation for free here.

Safety standards govern modern off-road vehicle functional safety

While functional safety standards are well-established in the automotive industry, in the realm of non-road vehicles and mobile machinery, it can still be an arduous task to cross-analyze the applying safety standards relating to the specific function. Download the report for free here.

Volvo Construction on functional safety certification

Pierre Loisy, Safety Engineer and Stephan Baumgart, Functional Safety Electrical & Electronics System Architecture from Volvo Construction Equipment in Sweden made a presentation on the topic of: "Volvo Construction on Functional Safety Certification". Download the full presentation for free here.

Exclusive Article on the Latest on Functional Safety Standards for Non-Road Vehicles

Functional Safety is a complex issue for Non-Road Vehicles. Many of these types of vehicles also function as machines in a variety of different ways, and while ISO 26262 applies to automotive-specific electronic systems, various other standards can also come into consideration. Download the full article here.

Risto Tiusanen: System safety approach for automated mobile work-machines

In industrial sectors such as mining, construction, civil engineering, container handling and material handling, which are using mobile work machines, a new growing trend is to automate mobile work machine operations. The shift from manually operated mobile work machines toward automated mobile work-machine systems takes machinery-safety considerations also to a new, system safety, level. Download the whitepaper for free here.

Challenges Implementing Functional Safety for Commercial Vehicles

While functional safety standards are well-established in the automotive industry, in the realm of non-road vehicles and mobile machinery, it can still be an arduous task to cross-analyze the applying safety standards relating to the specific function. Learn more about it downloading for free the full presentation of Bart Oosthoek from BRACE Automotive.

Electronic functional safety for agriculture and forestry

Read more about  ISO 25119 - Electronic Functional Safety for agriculture and forestry in this presentation by Michael Suhre of Eckelmann. Download the full presentation here!

Interview & Survey: Non road vehicles and standardization

Functional safety for non-road vehicles can be a complex process. Many vehicles also function as machines and therefore can fall under multiple safety standards. Thomas Kramer-Wolf, Norms/Standards Specialist with Pilz Automation Technology Germany, spoke with us to clarify some of the issues. Read the full interview to hear about current challenges in this industry.

Earth moving machinery: Functional safety certification of electronic systems

Joakim Fröberg, Researcher Architectures of Vehicle Computer Based Systems, Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) on the topic of: "Functional safety certification of electronic systems in earth moving machinery". Download the full presentation here.