The following gives a short introduction concerning the different sections in the FSM-Certificates.

Certification Body

The wording "Certification Body" and its company relation is a fixed term and should always be used in a coherent form in all technical documentations and other publications:

Certification Body: "Automation, Software and Information Technology (ASI) - Certification Body for Functional Safety Management Systems".

Automation, Software and Information Technology is a business unit of the company TÜV Rheinland Industrie Service GmbH, Business Field: Electrical Engineering and Building Technology. TÜV Rheinland Industrie Service GmbH is a subsidiary of TÜV Rheinland Group.

Disclaimer and Validity of the Certificates:

The FSM-Certification does not replace type approval or certification for safety related systems, subsystems and components, specific technical solutions or realizations or applications of E/E/PE Systems, respectively Safety Instrumented Systems.

The audit results refer exclusively to those departments, which are involved in the FSM-organisation at the location of the audited company.

The validity of the Certificate is limited. The duration of validity is indicated in the FSM-Certificate.

Standards for the FSM-Certification:

IEC 61508, part 1-7, issued 1998 to 2000, and / or
IEC 61511, part 1, issued 2003.

Scope of Certification:

The Scope of Certification documented in the FSM-Certificate determines the Company Specific Safety Lifecycle Phases, which are applied by the audited company, who also determines the phase responsibility of the audited company.

The flow of information to sectional points of adjoining Company Specific Safety Lifecycle Phases are also taken into consideration during the certification process. The adjoining phases relate only to the support provided by the audited company to its clients, excluding overall responsibility for the different processes.

Please refer to the individual certificates for detailed description of activities and services of the audited companies.

The wording "Scope of Certification" as part of the FSM-Certificate is a fixed term and should always be used in a coherent form in all technical documentations and other publications.

In general the objects of the certification procedure are defined in the standards IEC61508 and IEC61511 relating to the Management of Functional Safety, the Documentation, the Functional Safety Assessment as well as the Company Specific Safety Lifecycle Phases.

The Company Specific Safety Lifecycle Phases relate to the Safety Lifecycles Phases which are specified in the IEC 61508 -Overall Safety Lifecycle, -E/E/PES Safety Lifecycle and -Software Safety Lifecycle as well as specified in the IEC 61511 -SIS Safety Lifecycle.

Currently the following different scopes of certifications are applied to the Functional Safety Management. The application of further sopes are under consideration.

1. IEC 61508 – E/E/PES safety related System Realization

2. IEC 61508 – E/E/PES safety related Hardware Development or E/E/PES safety related Software Development

3. IEC61508 – E/E/PES safety related System Integration

4. IEC61511 – SIS Integration

1. IEC 61508 – E/E/PES safety related System Realization

In general this scope of certification relates to manufacturers, who are responsible for the development of safety related E/E/PE Systems.

The applied Company Specific Safety Lifecycle Phases are:

2. IEC 61508 – E/E/PES safety related Hardware Development or E/E/PES safety related Software Development

This certification scope relates typically to service provider, who are responsible for the development of E/E/PE Systems during the E/EPES Safety Lifecycle or Software Safety Lifecycle.

3. IEC61508 – E/E/PES safety related System Integration

This Scope of Certification relates generally to System Integrators as a Service Provider for Operators or End Users, who are responsible for an application specific engineering of Safety Loops, including E/E/PE Systems, sensors and actuators.

For System Integrators it is highly recommended to additionally consider the requirements specified in the standard IEC 61511.

The applied Company Specific Safety Lifecycle Phases are:

4. IEC61511 – SIS Integration

This Scope of Certification also relates generally to System Integrators in the meaning of a Service Provider for Operators or End Users, who are responsible for an application specific engineering of Safety Loops, including safety related systems, subsystems, sensors and actuators (Safety Instrumented Systems).

For System Integrators it is highly recommended to additionally consider the requirements specified in the standard IEC 61508 .

The applied Company Specific Safety Lifecycle Phases are: