Seminar: Functional safety - emerging, changing and integrating standards and applications

Welcome to a seminar that will focus on evolving and emerging laws and safety standards for vehicles and machines including robots.

Functional safety is receiving increased attention through stricter legislation and new and updated international standards. These updates reflect both an increasing attention from the public, as well as advances in research and industry. Machines with embedded electronic systems are performing more and more advanced functions, vehicles are becoming autonomous and robots can work unshielded in the factories. While new functionalities promise enhanced safety and improved performance, they are also associated with new faults, failure modes and risks. Also for this reason, safety engineering has to evolve.

The seminar has the purpose to shed light on evolving and emerging laws and safety standards for vehicles and machines including robots, and will discuss and provide answers to questions such as; What is the status of legislation and standards? What are the relations between these standards - can best practices be exchanged among the domains? How should the standards be applied in organizations? Is Swedish and European industry prepared to meet the upcoming challenges?

Program

9.30-10.00: Registration, coffee

10.00-10.10: Seminar introduction, organizers: Martin Törngren, Rikard Land, Mikael Åkerholm

10.10-10.40: Industrial and scientific challenges for functional safety, Henrik Thane, Safety Integrity AB

Leg stretch, coffee

11.50-11.35: Machinery directive, Mattias Lafvas, SIS

11.35-12.20: ISO-26262 (automotive): Per Johannessen, VCC

12.20-13.20 - Lunch including CC demonstrations

13.20-14.15: ISO-15998 (earth-moving machinery): Jörgen Bergsten, VCE

14.15-15.00: IEC61508 + updates: Frank Reichenbach, ABB

Leg strecth, coffee

15.15-16.15: Panel debate and discussion - Are we entering a safety era?
All speakers participate, plus Christian Strzyz (tidigare safetyassessor på TÜV, nu på CC)

16.15-16.30: Seminar conclusions, follow-up events

16.30: Seminar ending

Register to the seminar by sending an email to:

Vicki Derbyshire

Contact information

The seminar is organized by ICES (Innovative Centre for Embedded Systems)/KTH: Martin Törngren and Mälardalens University (MDH)/CC Systems: Rikard Land och Mikael Åkerholm

For more information please contact:
ICES/KTH:

Martin Törngren

MDH/CC Systems:

Rikard Land

Mikael Åkerholm

Malin Rosqvist

Johanna Holmlund

Read about research projects with connections to the seminar:

Safety-Critical Component-Based Systems

Efficient Certification of functional Safety for Software systems