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Industrial automation · manufacturing · OT — updated 2026-09-23

ISO 13849

Machinery safety-control methodology based on Performance Level.

ISO 13849-1 provides a methodology for designing safety-related parts of control systems and rating their achieved Performance Level (PL a–e). It considers architecture, diagnostics, component reliability, and common-cause failure.

See also: Functional safety · Safety relay · SIL

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