Compliance with EN-954-1 Category 3

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Adel Abdellatif

How can one acheive compliance with EN-954-1 category 3, without using a safety module in the PLC? Is there is any other way to acheive such compliance for connecting Emergency stop, and critical signals to a PLC system?

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adel
 
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Daniel Chartier

Hello Adel;

Of course there are ways to achieve compliance to cat 3, even cat 4, without safety PLCs. Cat 3 basically means that a single failure of the control element shall not impede the safety funcvtion of that element (therefore 1oo2 technology) and that the single fault should be detected within a single safety function cycle (therefore monitoring of the safety cycle). Safety relays (such as Pilz and others manufacture)are a common electromechanical technology used to achieve compliance.

Follow the following link to HVGB's pdf on "Safety-related control Systems in accoedance with EN 954-1". It is a precious ressource.

http://www.hvbg.de/d/bia/pub/rep/rep02/bia0697e.htm

Hope this helps,
Daniel Chartier
 
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