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News Release from: The Profibus Group | Subject: Profisafe guidelines
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 27 February 2003
New Profisafe guidelines
Profibus International announces Profisafe, a supplementary technology for standard Profibus that reduces the failure probability of information transmission between controllers and fail-safe devices
Profibus international has announced the availability of 2 new documents on Profisafe, a supplementary technology for standard Profibus that reduces the failure probability of information transmission between fail-safe controllers and fail-safe field devices in accordance with IEC 61508 Profisafe defines a complete set of rules that enable manufacturers, integrators, distributors, competence centres and consultants to maintain consistency in implementation and application of the technology
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 11 Jul 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The intention is to ensure that Profisafe helps Profibus users avoid risk and harm or damage to people, environment and assets without the need for an additional safety bus.
"Profisafe - requirements for installation, immunity and electrical safety" also describes fail-safe solutions for configuration, parameter assignment and maintenance of Profisafe-compliant installations: see the version 0.91, order code 2.232.
"Profisafe - test specification for safety related Profibus DP slaves" defines how DP slaves should be tested in order to ensure compliance with the Profisafe specification: see the version 0.82, order code 2.242.
Both documents are available to UK readers from Profibus: full members of Profibus UK may download the documents free of charge from the Profibus website.
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