Safety+ for Mobile Automation
Safety by Design Starts with the Tools
Certified safety throughout the entire development process with Safety+
Plus and minus equal a minus. This basic mathematical principle can also be applied to the programming of safety functions in mobile automation: Only the sum of safety-certified tools and processes can result in a safe overall solution.
Mobile machines must reliably prevent dangerous malfunctions. Accordingly, machine builders invest significant effort in developing and securing their safety applications. Until now, however, this has involved a contradiction: The safety applications themselves were developed according to strict standards, while non-certified tools were used for some of the individual steps behind them.
Safe + Safe = Safe
This is exactly where Safety+ comes in. With the combination of X90 Safety and the new Safety+ Editor, B&R provides an end-to-end certified environment for the development and workflow of mobile machines. Developers can use modern engineering and DevOps methods for safety applications without leaving the certified foundation. Version control with GitHub, automated build processes with Jenkins and other modern development functions can be integrated into the safety workflow.
Safety+ also offers greater freedom for individual safety logic. This includes customer-specific machine functions, optimized shutdown speeds and response times for steering systems, as well as the processing of customer-specific CAN dialects. Safety+ thus brings together two requirements that have previously been difficult to reconcile: the openness of modern software development and the certified foundation for functional safety.
A safety application can only truly be safe if the tools and processes behind it are safe as well. With Safety+, we are creating this foundation – for Safety by Design from development to the finished machine.
