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News Release from: Pilz Automation Technology | Subject: BIP0014
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 22 December 2004
BSI document offers advice on fieldbus
choices
BIP0014 "Selecting the best fieldbus for your application" is now available for sale direct from Pilz.
BSI recently completed work on BIP0014, "Selecting the best fieldbus for your application", which is an updated replacement for BSI's earlier DISC PD0014:2000 document, and now it has been published and is available for sale direct from Pilz, an official BSI distributor BIP0014 aims to provide a guide to fieldbus technology so that the best protocol can be selected for a particular application, and it includes an important section about the use of fieldbuses in safety-related applications
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 4 Aug 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Pilz has developed a structured method for inspecting the safety-critical elements of plant and machinery to enable the suitability of the safety measures to be validated.
The 39-page document also makes it absolutely clear that general-purpose fieldbuses should not be assumed to be adequate for safety applications.
For those who are considering implementing a multipurpose fieldbus for conveying both safety and non-safety-related data, the guide explains that the key issue is to ensure that failures or changes in the non-safety-related system do not prevent any safety function from operating correctly.
And this is most readily achieved by keeping safety-related and non-safety-related systems separate from each other.
More information about BIP0014 "Selecting the best fieldbus for your application" (ISBN 0 580 44515 1) is available from Pilz, and copies can be purchased for GBP 34.
In addition, Pilz can also provide general help and advice in relation to safety fieldbuses.
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