4-day training - limited participation to 12 person.

Engineers who are working in the field of functional safety for many years have the possibility to obtain an official verification of their expertise. By passing a final exam successfully they will receive a TÜV Rheinland Functional Safety Engineer certificate.

This certificate, which is acknowledged worldwide, states that specific knowledge within the field of "Hardware/Software Design" has been achieved.

Target Group

Developers, who are mainly engaged in the development of programmable electronic safety systems on the basis of the acknowledged international standard IEC 61508. This training imparts basic knowledge, which enables developers to transfer the requirements of the standard IEC 61508 most effectively.

Contents

• Introduction
  Functional safety of electric, electronic and programmable systems
• Safety Philosophy
  - Definition of risk, principle of risk reduction
  - Introduction to various classification systems (AK, SK, SIL)
  - Comparison and relation of classification systems to each other
• International Standard IEC 61508
  - General methods and requirements
  - Consideration of life cycle aspects of safety-related systems and components
  - Requirements concerning management of Functional Safety 
  - Requirements for the evaluation/judgement of Functional Safety
  - Definition of requirements according to the chosen SIL 
  - Meaning of Safety Integrity Level (SIL)
  - Consideration of faults and fault modells 
  - Fault: random fault, systematic fault, fault caused by handling, fault during  
    operation
  - Fault modells: stuck-at-, DC- and extended DC-fault modell
  - Definition of measures against faults
  - Fault avoidance
  - Fault detection and -control
  - Comparison „deterministic“ and „probabilistic“ method 
  - Consideration during design-, development- and production phase 
  - Safety requirement specification 
  - Verification- and validation plan
  - Examples of hardware-design and verification
  - Software-design and verification
  - Calculation of the probability of failure on demand (PFD)
  - Derivation of Reliability Block Diagram for different systems
  - Derivation of formula for calculation of PFD
  - Architectural constraints, Safe Failure Fraction and diagnostic coverage
  - Interpretation of formula from IEC 61508-6
  - Influence of proof-test-interval, diagnosic-test-interval on probability figures
  - Redundant systems and common cause factor
  - Example for PFD calculation
  - Constraints and conditions for the phases
  - Commissioning, implementation, operation, maintenance
  - Operation
• Application of safety-related Bus Systems
  - Application of standards IEC 61508, EN 954 and EN 50159 to the described
    methods and measures for bus systems. 
  - Basic requirements for the application of bus-systems 
  - Deterministic approach
  - transmission error, random hardware failure, systematic failure
    Considerations of probability of transmission faults
    - Reliability of data transmission 
    - Bit-failure rate
    - Failure-rate and failure-detection
  - Various Bus-Architectures 
  - Examples for various bus-systems and safety considerations

 Agenda

1st Day               

1. Introduction, overview of the TÜV Functional Safety Program

2. Introduction into safety engineering

3. Application of the international standard IEC 61508
    Part 1: General requirements and management of functional safety

2nd Day

1. Examples concerning management of functional safety

2. Application of the international standard IEC 61508
    Part 2: Requirements of E/E/PES

3. Determination and evaluation of safety-related parameter (practical examples)

Discussion

3rd Day

to be continued

1. Determination and evaluation of safety-related parameter (practical examples)

2. Application of the international standard IEC 61508
    Part 3: Software requirements

3. Practical example concerning part 3

4. Requirements of tools for configuration and parametrisation of safety systems

5. Requirements of safety-related bus systems acc. to IEC 61508.

Discussion

4th Day               

Summary of training - Questions and answers
Exam

Exam 

Duration approx. 3,5 – 4 hours  Start: 11 am   End: approx. 3 pm

Cost

€ 2.250
Includes exam, training proceedings, lunch and refreshments

€ 1.980
without exam