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Our free safety resources...

Navigating Machine Safety: From risk to compliance in a changing regulatory landscape (whitepaper): Learn about safer working environments with minimised risks.

6 steps to safety (flyer): Your guide to determine the correct safety levels and required protective measures.

From concept to output: Applying Safety Sub-functions with Festo (guide): for OEMs, machine builders, and end users who want to understand and implement functional safety in a practical, results-oriented way.

Tools

  • You can find all the safety-related characteristic values for our products in a VDMA database for the SISTEMA calculation tool.
  • All the relevant characteristic values are provided in the datasheet for product reliability in the catalogue.
  • Software and sizing tools help you with product selection.

Design tools

Standards and guidelines

  • Our products are developed, tested and certified in accordance with the relevant standards.
  • Technical reports help you to implement the safety functions in accordance with the standards.
  • We are closely involved in the further development of standards. You, too, can benefit from this.

Further information about standards and regulations

Customer-specific system solutions

  • We work with you to develop custom solutions for safety-related applications.
  • This of course includes the safety-relevant documentation.

Training

  • With Festo Didactic, we offer a global range of seminars and online training courses relating to safety so that we can help you to master the topic of safety engineering.
  • We can also visit your site to provide advice about your machine.

Services

  • Our safety engineering specialists around the world will help you to select the right products and safety functions.
  • We can test all the functions for your application in our 26 application centres worldwide.

Products

  • Products for machine safety for all areas of automation from a single source
  • Our safety devices are certified according to all the current standards and thus reduce the design time.
  • All characteristic values for standard products are also available online.
  • Quick and easy calculation of the risk reduction

Certifications

  • SIL certificates from notified bodies
  • SIL manufacturer’s declarations available for numerous products and systems

Customer-specific system solutions

  • We work with you to develop custom solutions for safety-related applications.
  • This of course includes the safety-relevant documentation.

Training

With Festo Didactic, we offer a global range of seminars and online training courses relating to safety so that we can help you to master the topic of safety engineering.

Services

Our safety engineering specialists around the world will help you to select the right products for safety-related circuits.

Products

  • Type tests according to NE 95 for SIL-certified products
  • Tried-and-tested products for safety-related applications in the low-demand and high-demand area
  • All safety-related product data is available online for a quick and easy calculation of the risk reduction.

Other useful downloads

External links

Raising awareness of machine and system safety

Risk assessment and machine safety concerns more people that you might expect. It certainly wouldn’t hurt to share this link.