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Too Good to be True

A.K.A You’re About to Severely Under-Design your SIF and Put your People at Risk. Twice this week alone, and much more often than I like to remember, I’ve had safety system designers blindly follow certificates that contain data that simply cannot be true. They get a certificate from…

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What Does Root Cause Analysis Really Mean?

What Does Root Cause Analysis Really Mean?

This is an intriguing question.  One that I often ask my classes when I’m teaching our FSE100 Functional Safety course. Very often, they do not know or do not fully understand what this means and why it is important.

The IEC61511 standard requires that any failures that occur within the…

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