Ansys Medini Analyze for Efficient ISO 13849 Machinery Safety Compliance

Background

PDSVISION advised Aldercote on how to improve the efficiency of their FuSa analysis tasks. With numerous products in their range and a pipeline of control enhancements to implement across them, the capacity to design and analyse systems quickly and confidently was critical.

Challenge

Aldercote self-certified their products to the ISO 13849 safety standard using a number of complex spreadsheets, developed in-house. However, these systems were quite complicated to update, and different analyses were not fully interlinked. This meant that changes in componentry or control algorithms led to  a lengthy process of updating several spreadsheets.

Solution

The fully integrated nature of Medini Analyse, and the intuitive user interface now means that this analysis can be undertaken much more quickly and with much less prior training and familiarisation. In addition, all the analysis is presented in standard formats which are immediately recognisable to FUSA analysts familiar with other industries. This greatly eases the process of third-party auditing of documentation, and means that analysis is can be quickly understood by new recruits.

Business value

This solution provides a robust, professional, reliable and consistent solution that the team now has confidence in.

It has streamlined FuSa Analysis across the company and accelerated the route to safety compliance. This has allowed the company to implement performance enhancing updates to its control system much more quickly, thereby accelerating ongoing product development, and helping us to enhance our reputation for providing responsive high performance products.

Deploying this unified approach across the entire product range has given Aldercote the efficiencies and confidence they were looking for to improve their FuSa analyses.

Aldercote