Members can download this article in PDF format. From the highway to the factory floor, automation is driving the need for functional safety. Automotive airbag and braking systems have long ...

UL now offers an in-depth training course on functional safety for hardware and software systems engineers. The course covers what is required to design and develop a functional safety system in a way ...

During the design process, failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) is typically used to assess how equipment and machinery might fail. Recent functional safety design legislation in the EU has ...

If I’ve heard it once I’ve heard it a thousand times: Documentation is the least favorite part of engineering. But it also may be one of the most important and is growing to be more so. This was made ...

It's often been said that form follows function. I prefer to think that function drives form. Unfortunately, just the opposite is true for modern CAD tools -- function is a slave to form (or geometry) ...

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