ISO 12100: Risk Assessing Collaborative and Mobile Robot Applications

Date
2027-05-17
Location
Online
Host
Zach L

About this event

A live 30-minute expert session on Risk Assessing Collaborative and Mobile Robot Applications (ISO 12100 — Machinery Risk Assessment). What We'll Cover: Why the integrator owns the ISO 12100 risk assessment of a robot application and how ISO 10218-2 and ISO/TS 15066 hang off it Step-by-step assessment of the collaborative workspace: contact scenarios, quasi-static vs transient contact, speed and separation monitoring, end-effector and part hazards How biomechanical limit checks and safeguarding choices map back to ISO 12100 risk lines and into the cell's technical file Common mistakes: relying on the cobot's certificate, ignoring the gripper and workpiece, force measurement done once on one contact point The application risk assessment, contact case table and force/pressure measurement rec

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About Functional Safety Foundations

This online session delivers expert-led instruction on the regulatory landscape and implementation approach for Functional Safety Foundations.

The cross-sector fundamentals underlying every functional safety standard: risk as severity × likelihood, the safety function concept, integrity levels, the safety lifecycle, and the split between random and systematic failures.

What it regulates

Shared vocabulary and reasoning: hazard → risk → risk reduction allocation → safety requirement → verified implementation → maintained integrity in operation.

Who must comply

Everyone entering the field — the conceptual base of the entire catalog.

Key requirements of Functional Safety Foundations

  • Hazard and risk fundamentals
  • Safety function anatomy: sensor-logic-actuator with defined safe state
  • Integrity ladders (SIL/PL/ASIL/DAL) as risk-reduction currencies
  • Random vs systematic failure treatment
  • Lifecycle and management of functional safety incl. competence

Key concepts: Functional Safety Foundations

Risk reduction allocation
Distributing required risk reduction among mechanical design, safeguards, control functions and procedures.
Functional safety management
Planning, competence, documentation and assessment wrapped around technical work.
Random vs systematic
Hardware wear-out/chance failures quantified statistically versus design/process errors controlled by rigor.
Safe state
The defined condition a function drives the equipment to on demand or fault.

Frequently asked questions: Functional Safety Foundations

Why can't testing alone prove safety?

Rare-event targets (like 1e-7/h) are unverifiable by test duration, and systematic errors evade random testing — hence the standards' dual machinery of quantified hardware analysis plus process rigor and independent assessment.

Standard information based on the published text of Functional Safety Foundations. Event content is provided by the host. For authoritative guidance, consult the official standard body.