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Safety Tutorial Videos

Here you will find a collection of Safety Tutorial Videos.
These videos are designed for broadband download only.

Schmersal on Machine Safety series

  • Safety Circuits: Manual Reset

    Peter Rigakos talks about manual reset for safety circuits and best engineering practices of using falling edge detection to prevent manual reset buttons becoming automatic resets.

    View on YouTube Duration: 3:52

  • Performance Levels

    Devin Murray explains performance levels, per ISO 13849, breaking down the related concepts such as diagnostic coverage, common cause failures, mean time to a dangerous failure, and categories.

    View on YouTube  Duration: 3:45

  • Control Reliability

    Peter Rigakos discusses Control Reliability, its origins, and designing safety circuits to standards.

    View on YouTube Duration: 2:40

Ask The Expert: Machine Safety Questions

PODCASTS

Automation World Gets Your Questions Answered

The podcast series “Automation World Gets Your Questions Answered” connects Automation World subscribers with industry experts to get the answers to many questions on machine automation, Industry 4.0/networking, safety, and new technologies. The podcast is hosted by David Greenfield, Director of Content for Automation World. In May 2022, our tec.nicum Engineering Services manager, Devin Murray, appeared on the podcast with the topic: What Is A Machine Risk Assessment?

> Listen to the podcast on YouTube (with captions)
> Listen to the audio only at Automation World

From our archives: Man-Machine Safeguarding video series