You can only achieve plant safety if existing risks are recognized in advance and, where necessary, reduced as quickly as possible. The manufacturing industry also faces the challenges of meeting current standards and legislation, such as IEC 62061, ISO 13849-1, ISO 14121 and machine directive 2006/42/EC. Safety systems must fulfill very high standards today. The probability of a fault, for example, must be calculated for every protection function. On the other hand, you can also gain flexibility with new standards which, for instance, allow complex safety functions to be assessed. Functions such as these allow the design of a dynamic protection zone – dependent on the tool used – as well as the possibility of selectively disconnecting danger zones. This means that you can optimally adapt the safety systems to your production processes.