Renishaw plc is one of the world’s leading engineering and scientific technology companies, with expertise in precision measurement and healthcare. The company supplies products and services used in applications as diverse as jet engine and wind turbine manufacture, through to dentistry and brain surgery.
When faced with the unenviable task of upgrading their established RESOLUTE optical encoder system such that it would comply with IEC 61508 SIL2, Renishaw’s Encoder Products Division (EPD) they turned to LDRA for help. Here’s how it went.
Meet Liz Smith, a Software Engineer with the EPD. Liz was at the heart of a team tasked with upgrading their established and successful RESOLUTE true-absolute, fine pitch optical encoder system, – the world’s first absolute encoder capable of 1 nm resolution up to 100 m/s for linear systems, and 32-bit resolution up to 36 000 rev/min for rotary systems.Watch how she and the team tackled the project to successfully develop a version for safety critical environments, RESOLUTE FS.
Read how Liz and the rest of the EPD team tackled the challenge of re-engineering an established, high quality product to comply with IEC-61508 SIL2 demands: Renishaw case study.
In striving to achieve compliance with IEC 61508 SIL 2, the Renishaw EPD team applied LDRA’s Static and Dynamic Analysis tools to achieve MISRA C 2012 compliance, and to adhere to the IEC 61508 functional safety objectives.
For a more in-depth analysis, download: Implementing IEC 61508-2010 with the LDRA tool suite White Paper.
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