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News Release from: The Profibus Group
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 27 February 2003
New specs add safety to Profibus
Profibus International has published two new documents on Profisafe.
Profibus International has published two new documents on Profisafe, a supplementary technology for standard Profibus that reduces the failure probability of information transmission between failsafe controllers and failsafe field devices in accordance with IEC61508 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 Engineeringtalk on 20 May 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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The fifth annual UK Profibus and Profinet User Conference will combine the conference with practical workshops and and exhibition featuring many live demonstrations.
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 failsafe solutions for configuration, parameter assignment and maintenance of Profisafe-compliant installations.
"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.
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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