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The future of Functional Safety is here!
Functional safety in the industry is paramount for preventing accidents, protecting personnel and assets, and ensuring operational efficiency. It involves designing control electronics to mitigate risks arising from equipment malfunctions.
Whilst the generic ISO 61508 has been published for over 20 years, its application has been slowly deployed along the different industrial segments.
The industrial landscape is constantly evolving, and with it, the demands for safety. The upcoming enforcement of the new EU Machinery Regulation (EU) 2023/1230, effective from January 2027, marks a turning point, introducing stricter requirements that directly impact the design and certification of all industrial machinery.
This new regulatory framework places an unprecedented emphasis on the safety of Artificial Intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, and connected machinery. For manufacturers and distributors, this translates into a critical need to reassess their processes and ensure rigorous compliance through harmonized standards like ISO 13849 and IEC 62061.
At Idneo, we have an expert Functional Safety team with over 10 years of multi-sector experience. We act as an engineering partner, transforming regulatory challenges into a competitive advantage for our clients. Our expertise covers a broad spectrum of standards critical to the different sectors, including:
- Generic Functional Safety: ISO 61508
- Machinery & Robotics: ISO 13849, IEC 62061, ISO 10218
- Home Appliances: IEC 60335, IEC 60730
- Agricultural & Forestry Tractors and Machinery: ISO 25119
- Earth Moving Machinery: ISO 19014
- Process Industry: IEC 61511
- Machine Tools: ISO 16092
- Electrical Power Drive Systems: IEC 61800-5-2
- Electro-sensitive Protective Equipment: IEC 61496
- Automotive (Cars, Trucks, Motorbikes): ISO 26262
- Railway Transportation: EN 50126/8/9
Idneo offers flexible, tailored support, whether you need specific analysis or a complete, end-to-end safety partner.
- Full-Cycle Safety Leadership: We can define and execute the entire safety plan for your product, ensuring you meet and exceed regulatory requirements at every milestone.
- Targeted Expert Support: Need help with a specific stage? We can step in to conduct crucial activities like Hazard Analysis and Risk Assessments (HARA), safety concepts, safety requirements, hardware metrics (FMEDA), safe software development, or fault injection testing. Any functional safety related activity regarding the different standards
- Building Your In-House Capabilities: We can help you implement the processes, methodologies, and tools your team needs to build and strengthen the Functional Safety aspects of your project needs.
