=Method provides a range of Certification options. We can certify SIL capable products to IEC 61508, we can certify an organisation’s Functional Safety Management procedures, we can certify solutions and packages. We can issue a certificate in our own right, or help you to gain certification with other authorities.
If you would like to discuss your own Certification needs please contact us.
Edition 2 of IEC 61511 states that “If a supplier makes any functional safety claims for a product or service, which are used by the organization to demonstrate compliance with the requirements of this part of IEC 61511, the supplier shall have a functional safety management system”. If you provide any design, integration or consultancy services for any aspect of the Functional Safety Lifecycle, you must be able to demonstrate you have FSM in place. We can assist you to achieve compliance and / or certify that you have achieved this goal (typically by using the CASS scheme assessment methodology).
If you are a Systems Integrator or Package Vendor, you may wish to offer your clients formal certification that your design and build have been done according to the appropriate standards. We can assist you to be compliant and / or assess your work against the standards and issue formal certification of compliance. We can certify simple, single SIF solutions through to complex HIPPs systems.
If you are a product manufacturer, looking to develop a new field instrument, logic solver or final element, we can assist you to be compliant with the standard. As well as assistance / consultancy, we can assess the work you do (using independent assessors from those who acted as consultants) and formally certify the product to IEC 61508. If your market requires certification from other authorities, we can help you prepare for their assessment, prior to their certification process.
We have the experience to handle products from simple components through to those with complex embedded software.
If you are a product manufacturer, looking to certify an existing instrument or final element, we can assist you to demonstrate, via a “Proven in Use” assessment, that your product meets the requirements of the standard. The assessment will focus on the data you can provide on customer returns / failures, and is dependent on the amount of operational experience obtained, but will also require:
If the assessment is successful, we can formally certify the product to IEC 61508. If your market requires certification from other authorities, we can help you prepare for their assessment, prior to their certification process.
If you are an end user, trying to demonstrate that your installed (“legacy”) safety instrumented systems are giving the risk reduction they should, then a “Prior Use” analysis may be the way forward. The assessment will focus on the data you can provide on field performance and failures, and is dependent on the amount of operational experience obtained, but will also require consideration of:
If the assessment is successful, we can formally certify the SIL capability of the components used in your Safety Instrumented Functions.
The =Method Free Live Online CPD Seminar includes a 1-hour seminar focusing on Prior use - A review of a prior use project scrutinised by the regulator. This event takes plance on October 22nd. For information see Free CPD Seminar.
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