Sauer-Danfoss

Vehicle Development Insights from Industry: Technologies and Trends for Future Growth - The future of functional safety.

Like many North American OEMs and components manufacturers, Sauer-Danfoss is navigating the functional safety landscape. The Machinery Directive (2006/42/EC) and its related standards explicitly put new, tough demands on vehicle designers to quantify the safety levels of their machine, before it is placed on the market within any European Union member country.

However, these guidelines have significant global impact as they are said to “provide a good indication of the state of the art” for the design and delivery of the safest machines practical. The application of internationally recognized state-of-the-art processes and tools for the design of safety-related control systems (SRCS) should provide confidence to any machinery manufacturer-both inside the European community as well as outside the enforcement boundaries of the directive-including North America.