Safety Webinars
January 25, 2012 Changes to NFPA 79 Electrical Standard Explained
This webinar will provide you with a deeper understanding of changes made in NFPA 79 to address advances in new technologies – spelling out essential protection for operators, facilities, and work-in-progress for a full spectrum of equipment
November 30, 2011 Examining Machinery Directive (2006/42/EC) – Challenges, Practical Applications, and Do’s and Don’ts for Machine Safety
View this 45-minute educational webinar. In addition to providing an overview of The Machinery Directive (2006/42/EC), Andras Sszende will explain the rules and regulations to follow when exporting and delivering machinery into the European market as well as provide a list of do’s and don’ts to ensure success
October 26, 2011 Benefiting from the New Field Evaluation Standard NFPA 791 With the new NFPA 791: Recommended Practice and Procedures for Unlabeled Electrical Equipment Evaluation, AHJ’s, inspection bodies and industry are provided with industry approved recommended practices and procedures for evaluating unlabeled electrical equipment, determining the acceptability of evaluation results reported by recognized third-party evaluation bodies, and evaluating multiple units of the same equipment.
September 28, 2011: Understanding Hazardous Locations and ATEX requirements for North America and Europe
View this 45 minute webinar introduction to hazardous locations. This webinar will help you gain a better understanding of the requirements for hazardous location regulations and compare the differences between North American requirements and European ATEX standards.
August 13, 2011: Robotic Safety An Overview of the New ISO
July 27, 2011: Risk Assessments: New ISO 13849-1&2 Impacts Process and Documentation Requirements
View this 45-minute educational webinar where you’ll learn about the current state of the risk assessment process, how the process has been applied in the past and what needs to happen moving forward in 2012. This webinar will help you discover the gains that can be achieved through implementing the new ISO standard in your business.
May 25, 2011: Wireless Technologies and the Impact on Machine Safety
April 27, 2011: Achieve Higher Safety Performance Level with EN ISO 13849
Description: With the expiration of EN954-1 at the end of 2011, the control categories of this standard will be replaced by the categories/performance levels of EN ISO 13849-1, titled “Safety of Machinery – Safety Related Parts of Control Systems.” View this 45-minute educational webinar, presented by Andras Szende of TUV Rheinland, to learn how to optimize compliance of existing devices and safety solutions with EN ISO 13849-1.
February 23, 2011: An Unbiased Comparison of Siemens Safety vs AB Safety
August 25, 2010: Life Cycle Safety Engineering: Safety Analysis & Residual Risk
Description: View this 45-minute educational webinar, presented by JB Titus, president of JB Titus and Associates, an industry expert in safety technology and solutions. Mr. Titus will address the end user view of capital equipment from a seven stage life cycle perspective with an emphasis on associated safety risks. The example used, brought to life via a new process from General Motors, is designed to drive a balanced approach to sustainability, productivity, and safety on a global basis.
July 28, 2010: Understand How the new machinery Directive Impacts
June 30, 2010: How Do I Get My Machines To SIL3 Compliance
May 26, 2010: Risk Assessment Protect Your Workers While Optimizing Productivity
March 28, 2010: The Case for Cableless Safety
March 24, 2010: New Requirements in Arc Flash and Arc Blast Safety
February 24, 2010: OSHA Requirements Do You Measure Up
January 27, 2010: US Machine Safety Impacted by European Standards
November 18, 2009: Safety Functional Examples Part 8: Safety I/O on Wireless Profinet
Description: This safety webinar series selects specific topics from Siemens’ library of Functional Examples and spends about 15 minutes on each topic discussing the salient concerns, specific products, the wiring approaches and logic required to accomplish the task. This webinar focuses on the Functional Example “Implementing a Safety Function (SIL3/PLe) with Profinet I/O via wireless IWLAN” (Safety PLC).
October 28, 2009: Safety Functional Examples Part 7: Single and Group Actuator and Distributed Laser Scanner Application
Description: This safety webinar series selects specific topics from Siemens’ library of Functional Examples and spends about 15 minutes on each topic discussing the salient concerns, specific products, the wiring approaches and logic required to accomplish the task. This webinar focuses on the following two Functional Examples: (1) Single and Group Shutdown of Actuators (Safety PLC); and (2) Distributed Application of Laser Scanner LS4-4 (Profisafe to Safety PLC)
September 30, 2009: Safety Functional Examples Part 6: Safety Drive Functions via ProfiSafe, and Read-back Signal Integration
Description: This safety webinar series selects specific topics from Siemens’ library of Functional Examples and spends about 15 minutes on each topic discussing the salient concerns, specific products, the wiring approaches and logic required to accomplish the task. This webinar is focuses on how you can accomplish specific safety architectures, understand the decision criteria when implementing the safety related control functions, and verify the attained SIL level or Performance Level.
September 15, 2009: Reduce Arc Flash Using Totally Integrated Automation
August 26, 2009: Safety Functional Examples Part 5: AS-i Safe Networked Magnet Field Lock, and Two-Hand Control with Safety PLC
Description: This safety webinar series selects specific topics from Siemens’ library of Functional Examples and spends about 15 minutes on each topic discussing the salient concerns, specific products, the wiring approaches and logic required to accomplish the task. This webinar focuses on the following two Functional Examples: (1) Protective Door with door interlocking via Magnet Field Lock, ASiSafe Implementation and (2) Control Panel with Integrated Emergency Stop (Safety PLC)
July 29, 2009: Safety Functional Examples Part 4: Protective Door with Door Interlocking Using ASiSafe, and Light Curtain Using Safety PLC
Description: This safety webinar series selects specific topics from Siemens’ library of Functional Examples and spends about 15 minutes on each topic discussing the salient concerns, specific products, the wiring approaches and logic required to accomplish the task. This webinar focuses on the following two Functional Examples: (1) Protective door with door interlocking via a spring-actuated lock according to Category 4 of EN 954-1, and (2) Light Curtain in Category 4 with Muting Function acc. To EN 954-1 using Safety PLC
June 24, 2009: Safety Functional Examples Part 3: EStop and Protective Door Circuit Using ASiSafe, and EStop Using ET200s
Description: This safety webinar series selects specific topics from Siemens’ library of Functional Examples and spends about 15 minutes on each topic discussing the salient concerns, specific products, the wiring approaches and logic required to accomplish the task. This webinar focuses on the following two Functional Examples: (1) Emergency stop and protective door monitoring with monitored start according to Category 4 of EN954-1,and (2) Emergency Stop with monitored start Category 4 acc. To EN954-1 “Solution Local”.
May 20, 2009: Safety Functional Examples Part 2: Protective Door Monitoring and Safety Door with Magnetic Engagement
Description: This safety webinar series selects specific topics from Siemens’ library of Functional Examples and spends about 15 minutes on each topic discussing the salient concerns, specific products, the wiring approaches and logic required to accomplish the task. This webinar focuses on the following two Functional Examples: (1) Protective door monitoring with automatic start, and (2) Safety Door with Magnetic Engagement in Category 4.
March 29, 2009: Safety Functional Examples Part 1: Emergency Stop with Monitored Start and Acknowledgement
Description: The Functional Examples webinar series looks at the implementation level of machine safety. This series selects specific topics from Siemens’ library of Functional Examples and spends about 15 minutes on each topic discussing the salient concerns, specific products, the wiring approaches and logic required to accomplish the task. Part 1 focuses on the following two Functional Examples: (1) Emergency stop and protective door monitoring with monitored start according to Category 4 of EN954-1, ASiMonitor (ASiSafe), and (2) Emergency Stop with monitored start Category 4 acc. To EN954-1 with ET200s Safety Motor Starter “Solution Local”.