Activities Control Devices

• detect and consider developments in the field of control devices at an early stage concerning safety and security of machines in a comprehensible and user-appropriate manner and promote qualified discussion between interested persons.
• present expert know-how in practice-oriented seminars:
  • last seminars in Brazil, March 2019:
    • Program Flyer „Functional Safety and Validation“, Sao Paulo
    • Program Flyer „Functional Safety and Validation”, Joinville
    • Report on the seminars on “functional safety and validation”, Brazil
• take control devices as an important element of machines into an integrated consideration
• co-design the international standardization if possible and transfer new findings on an international level
• elaborate a practical guideline to raise awareness for safety and security describing types and application of control devices: what has the control device to do and with whom has it to communicate?  A message for customers: make your networks safe. The manufacturers of components should give advise but will not be responsible.