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How exida’s Automated Software Tools Redefined Functional Safety
November 02, 2021
For decades achieving safety certification was an opaque process. Now software tools can help you do it yourself.
It is said that necessity is the mother of invention. Just over 20 years ago, two men who met on opposite sides of a product safety certification process ended up proving this maxim once again.
Back in the late 1990s, Dr. William Goble, a development manager for an automation company, was attempting to get a safety certification on a product his team was developing. During this process, Goble met Rainer Faller, who at the time was a business unit manager at Technischer Überwachungsverein (TUV) Bayern, one of the few safety certification associations in the world.
Goble and Faller agreed that the existing certification process was burdensome on companies and confusing—an impediment to safety. A better way was a necessity. They decided that a new approach could realize a higher level of safety by helping companies understand the process and meet the highest demands more readily.
Together they formed exida to realize this vision. On top of the training and educational systems that Exida developed, another key element to exida's approach would be a suite of automated software tools to guide people through the safety development process.