SIL and Functional Safety in a Nutshell

About This Book

SIL and Functional Safety in a Nutshell is an ebook explaining what SIL and functional safety means in layman's terms. The book is intended for everybody new to functional safety and SIL and wants a full overview without being lost in the details. It is excellent for managers that need to understand quickly what functional safety is all about and how it will influence the work of their employees and their products and/or services. It is excellent for engineers and professionals that want to get started with functional safety and understand the big picture before going into detail.

Everything you need to know to get started

SIL and Functional Safety in a Nutshell explains in simple terms what many standards, guidelines and other publications concerning SIL and functional safety try to talk about. All these standards, guidelines and publications explain SIL with their own level of detail. This ebook does not go into the details of what has to be done according to what standard and what not. It explains the main functional safety concepts, so you know everything you need to know to start.

Functional safety is not rocket science, and once you understand it and apply it a few times in practice, you will notice it is just good engineering practice. This book tries to explain good engineering practices. Functional safety standards can sometimes be confusing and contradicting, and sometimes they require things that make no sense. You do not need to understand the standards to apply and be good at functional safety.

If you understand the concepts explained in this book, you can apply functional safety to your organisation and your products, with or without following the exact standards and requirements. Once you understand how functional safety works, you will most likely go beyond what standards say and create your own functional safety organisation of excellence. And if you do that, well then you are well on your way to becoming a longtime winner as opposed to a short-term fuse.

Risknowlogy Prime Intelligence

This ebook is part of the Risknowlogy Prime Intelligence Publications

• ISBN ‏: 978-3-9524357-2-4
• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Prime Intelligence; 2nd edition (October, 2021)
• Publication date ‏ : ‎ October, 2021
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• File size ‏ : ‎ 7443 KB
• Format: ePub, PDF
• Print length ‏ : ‎ 80 pages