At a glance

1 Defining functional safety compliance	The goal of functional safety standards is to manage and mitigate systematic faults while also being able to detect and prevent (or, at minimum, render safe) random hardware failures when they occur.
2 Two attributes of functional safety system design	Functional safety involves developing systems to deliver an intended function and to meet a safety integrity level.
3 The recommended approach to designing functionally safe motor-control and drive systems	System engineers designing functionally safe systems should approach functional safety compliance at the outset of the design process – not as an afterthought.