A Surveillance Unit for Safety-Critical Machines: Design and Development

Surveillance is monitoring of behavior, activities, or other changing information. Nowadays machines in the area of development and research as well as in a production environment getting more and more complex and expensive. Failures caused by improper use or by defect parts can cause a lot of damage. To prevent or at least to attenuate effects of such failures a surveillance unit is needed. This book analyzes requirements for surveillance units for safety critical machines. To demonstrate the concept the general approach will be specialized in a case study. To support the design phase in the case study, the system is analyzed with respect to Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) and Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA).

Steffen Kaufmann was born in Hann. Münden, Germany, in 1984. He holds a Dipl.-Ing. (FH) degree for electrical engineering and a Master of Engineering (MEng) degree in Information Engineering. In 2010, he joined the Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) group at the University of Applied Sciences Lübeck.