Navigating performance approvals, functional safety, and SIL compliance requires a strategic approach to balancing regulatory demands with efficiency. This webinar will explore key industry standards, best practices for integrating functional safety, and engineering strategies to meet SIL requirements while managing compliance hurdles. Attendees will gain actionable insights into risk management, cost-benefit trade-offs, and emerging trends shaping the future of fire and gas detection system certification.
Overview
Navigating performance approvals, functional safety, and SIL compliance requires a strategic approach to meet regulatory demands while maintaining efficiency. In this session, we’ll explore the technical, regulatory, and business challenges faced by engineers, manufacturers, and industry leaders in designing and certifying safety-critical fire and gas detection systems.
Our discussion will provide practical insights on:
• Key industry standards (IEC 61508, IEC 61511, industry-specific regulations) and their real-world impact
• Best practices for integrating functional safety into product design while meeting performance approval requirements
• Engineering strategies to address SIL requirements, risk management, and compliance hurdles
• Business considerations: The cost-benefit trade-offs of SIL compliance and how it affects product development, certification, and time-to-market
• Emerging trends, including evolving regulatory expectations, advancements in testing and validation, and shifts in industry best practices
Whether you're an engineer developing safety-critical systems, a compliance professional navigating approvals, or an industry leader strategizing for regulatory changes, this session will equip you with the insights to optimize safety and compliance in your organization.
Key Takeaways
- Learn how to utilize functional safety for risk mitigation
- Discover how fire and gas detection safety systems apply to functional safety
- Understand the consideration of financial impacts on utilizing functional safety
Speakers
Jon Miller has over 30 years of direct experience in the high-hazard safety systems industry serving in a variety of professional roles including compliance engineering, quality management, and technical compliance management. He is a recognized expert in gas and fire detection systems with active long-standing membership in UL TC60079/TC9200, IEC TC31 committees, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Miller is the current chairman of both the US (UL TC9200) and International (IEC TC31 MT60079-29/JWG45) Combustible/Toxic/Oxygen Gas Detection Performance standards development committees. He is the author of many technical papers, publications, and speeches.
Over the past 34 years, Dean Phillips has been a leader in the technology sectors and the world of smart manufacturing. His is a continuous advisor to the smart manufacturing advisory committees with Society of Manufacturing Engineers and PMA Precision Metalforming Association. Phillips has been a speaker on IoT, AI, robotics, VR and AR. He is the creator of reality safe, a VR / AR safety training solution for manufacturing, working with Purdue. Phillips has spent the majority of his time advancing IoT, maintenance and safety to be more predictive and develop outcome based solutions. He has been on the board of directors for SME and an advisor for TTU, MTSU and TCAT. He has been a contributing lecturer on big data and it’s value and need for artificial intelligence to filter the information into actionable items. Phillips provides safety and development to cobot users and assists universities to outline expectations from manufacturers.