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Join us for this IN-PERSON CFSP Exam Preparation Course that is CONFIRMED TO RUN! 1-Day Training Class focused on key concepts, questions, and strategy for taking the Certified Functional Safety Professional (CFSP) exam in Process Safety. This assumes the participants have either completed exida’s FSE100 training course or is experienced in the Functional Safety Field.  While the course will revisit the basic Functional Safety Concepts, they will be covered quickly and with minimal emphasis on the history, derivation or supporting criteria. Instructor: Dr. Steve Gandy Register: https://lnkd.in/eibVwrBC

New White Paper: https://lnkd.in/e3patxaP This white paper describes using the OEMx tool to document an application of a complex integrated circuit and predict a set of reliability metrics for functional safety. OEMx allows for the entry of the product architecture with its internal sections, potential deviations (failure modes) for each section, and mitigations for fault detection/prevention for each deviation. Given that information, this paper then explains how to perform an FMEDA for that complex integrated circuit part within a system using exida’s semiconductor reliability model in the Component Reliability Database (CRD). A 32-bit microcontroller such as those used on many functional safety applications is used as the example. As part of this process, a two-level architecture design is shown along with exida’s DFMEA method for functional safety architecture design verification called DDMA. When expert knowledge is used for DDMA, the method is called DexDMA (Design expert Deviation and Mitigation Analysis). With OEMx, the expert knowledge to optimally perform a functional safety DFMEA is done at the same time we gather the information for an FMEDA. #exida #whitepaper #FMEDA #OEMx #Functionalsafety #software

Article written by exida's Patrick O'Brien published on the Food Engineering web site. The threats facing food processing facilities are already here, and there is no longer any time to delay implementing minimum protections for these sites. Cyberattacks pose a major threat to the reliability and safety of food supply in the U.S. and around the world. The sources of cybersecurity threats for food processing facilities continue to increase, ranging from criminal organizations, nation states (state-sponsored hacking groups), hacktivist groups (crowdsourced hacking for a variety of different “causes”) and disgruntled insiders. Attacks from these groups can potentially lead to significant supply disruptions and even food safety issues. https://lnkd.in/eNQbCFFE

Join us for this IN-PERSON Functional Safety Training! This course provides an overview of process industry safety engineering from the point of view of the Risk Analyst, Process Safety Coordinator, and Control Systems Design Engineer. It delivers a complete overview of the functional safety lifecycle. The course reviews Process Hazard Analysis (PHA), Consequence Analysis, Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA), Safety Integrity Level (SIL) Target Selection, Safety Requirements Specification (SRS) generation, failure rates, device and system reliability, SIF verification, SIF detailed design and Operations requirements. The FSE 100 course forms a broad review in preparation for the Certified Functional Safety Expert (CFSE) and Certified Functional Safety Professional (CFSP) process industry application engineering exams. Location: Brisbane February 10-13, 2025 Instructor: Eric Scharpf Register: Email Amanda Flanagan at aflanagan@exida.com for registration details

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Optimizing the design engineering process for new products involves balancing goals that normally conflict – time to market, development cost, quality (safety and reliability). OEMx reduces the conflict by helping to reduce time to market and reduce development cost while likely improving safety & reliability. This is done by providing a next generation integrated set of easy-to-use tools to support design verification for systems/products. These tools have built-in Knowledge Bases that speedup each task. Any task in the process which does not provide high value per hour is eliminated. From Requirements Entry and Tracking to Validation Testing, OEMx tools can streamline the new product development process. REQx, part of the OEMx product line from exida, is used to enter requirements from different sources, define the associated validation test objectives and trace the bi-direction linkage demonstrating complete test coverage. The tool also provides a set of features available in the entire suite including Action Item editor, requirements to implementation / test linkage, and report generators to create needed documentation. FMEDAx, part of the OEMx product line from exida, can be used to analyze the impact of component failure modes and perform quantitative analysis of products and subsystems to predict safety and reliability performance metrics as required by the IEC 61508 family of standards. ARCHx, part of the OEMx product line from exida, can be used to perform system / subsystem / product architecture analysis to document the design, evaluate the impact of potential design faults in hardware and/or software (DFMEA), identify potential cybersecurity vulnerabilities, and document FMEDA information (DDMA). The OEMx Knowledge Base support helps achieve faster results with less experienced staff and builds staff skills. #exida #functionalsafety #OEMx #FMEDA #FMEA #IEC #IEC61508 #software More Information: https://www.exida.com/oemx

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This week's webinar: https://lnkd.in/eZecRiJd With the growing cybersecurity requests to product and service providers, selecting the right standards for developing a security program has never been more critical. But considering the time involved with developing this program, organizations don’t want to pick just any standard, it is important to select the standard that is best aligned with the field the organization is working in, its goals, and its organizational needs. Two standards that are often referenced in industrial and building cybersecurity are NIST 800-53 and IEC 62443. This webinar will provide an overview of both standards, a comparison of the two standards, as well as the benefits and potential shortcomings for each, so that you can be confident on the best path forward for your organization. #exida #webinar #IEC #IEC64223 #NIST #NIST800 #cybersecurity

After many years of experience at exida, we still see FMEDA projects going overbudget with schedule delay. The main reason is often lack of needed information needed to finish the FMDA task. We started using the functional FMEDA approach some years ago as that method deals with changes, updates, and new designs much better than the old direct approach. However, to really get things done on budget and on schedule we started using an information tool, ARCHx. This information can be gathered as part of a modified DFMEA which we call DDMA but can also be done independently. This webinar describes the functional FMEDA approach, lists the information needed to do this type of FMEDA, and shows how that information can be optimally gathered / documented. #exida #webinar #functionalsafety #FMEDA #IEC #IEC61508 https://lnkd.in/ecuTGHHX

White Paper: https://lnkd.in/eVnXW-Cy This paper describes an example new product development process designed to meet requirements of IEC 61508:2010, the Basic Safety Standard for Functional Safety with a Systematic Capability Level 3 (SC 3). The example was done in the context of a microcomputer-based product which includes hardware and software done with a Full Variability Language (FVL) like C, C++, etc. This development process is meant to provide an example of well accepted design procedures used to create quality designs. Requirements of IEC 61508 and most functional safety standards were written to achieve this high-quality goal.  These design procedures have been shown to be quite effective in reducing design faults as they are based on the principles of established quality systems and software engineering . Therefore, many companies follow a similar development process for all development work, not just devices that used in critical / safety systems. A similar development process (or equivalent) can achieve Functional Safety Certification . We believe that most of the tasks shown in this example are already well known to those who have created a quality development process. But perhaps there are good ideas to be added that members of various functional safety standard teams have contributed to our current functional safety standards.  #exida #whitepaper #functionalsafety #IEC #IEC61508 #certification #c++