Functional Safety

We are the leading provider of development services in the area functional safety covering measurement, drive, and control technology, medical engineering, for the associated control devices and for components of collaborative robot systems. embeX was the first company worldwide to be awarded the highest maturity level for Functional Safety Management (FSM) according to IEC 61508 by TÜV Rheinland.

embeX develops embedded systems ranging from SIL 1 to SIL 4, from PL a to PL e, from medical device class I to III. We advise and support our customers in all issues relating to functional safety, when implementing a functional safety management system and during assessment and certification.

Our safety experts actively work in the safety standardisation groups such as IEC 61508 (SIL) and maintain constant contact with all renowned notified bodies.

Engineering Services

• Competent and comprehensive consulting
• Safety-related development projects with proof of conformity
• Definition and implementation of a lean development process for safety-related products
• Specification of safety requirements
• Definition of safety concepts
• Development of self-test libraries (STL) for ARM^® based controllers up to SIL 3
• Standard-compliant verification and validation
• Risk and failure analysis (FMEA, FMEDA, FTA) from system level down to component level
• Calculation of safety parameters, such as PFH, PFD, SFF, MTTF_d
• Design and dimensioning of safety relevant mechanical components
• Admission and certification: We produce the documents you need and represent you in dealing with the notified bodies

We are certified to IEC 61508 and work to the following standards and directives among others

• Machinery regulation (EU) 2023/1230
• Machinery directive 2006/42/EC
• IEC 61508: “Functional safety of electrical/electronic/programmable electronic safety-related systems”
• ISO 13849: “Safety of machinery - Safety-related parts of control systems”
• IEC 62061:  “Safety of machinery – functional safety of electrical, electronic and programmable electronic safety-related control systems”
• IEC TS 63074: “Security aspects related to functional safety of safety-related control systems”
• IEC TR 63069: “Industrial-process measurement, control and automation - Framework for functional safety and security”
• IEC 61496: “Safety of machinery - Electro-sensitive protective equipment”
• IEC 61800-5: “Electrical power drive systems...”
• IEC 61487-3: “Industrial communication networks ...: Functionally safe transmission in fieldbuses...”
• IEC 62998: “Safety of machinery - Electro-sensitive protective equipment - Safety-related sensors used for protection of person”
• EN 60601: “Medical electric equipment ...”
• EN 62304: “Medical device software - Software life-cycle processes”
• ISO 25119: “Tractors and machinery for agriculture and forestry”
• EN 50126: “Reliability, availability, maintainability, safety (RAMS)”
• EN 50128: “Development of safety-related software”
• EN 50129: “Safety-related electronic systems for signalling”
• EN 50155: “Electronic equipment used on rolling stock”
• IEC 60335: “Household and similar electrical appliances - Safety”
• IEC 60730: “Automatic electrical controls”
• EN 60880: “Nuclear power plants - Instrumentation and control systems important to safety”