10 Glossary
10.1 Terms from DIN EN ISO 13849
Abbreviation
Meaning
MTTF
Mean Time To Dangerous Failure
D
DC
Average Diagnostic Coverage
avg
CCF
Common Cause Failure
PL
Performance level
10.2 Terms from DIN EN 61508
Abbreviation
Meaning
SIL
Safety Integrity Level
HFT
Hardware Failure Tolerance
SFF
Safe Failure Fraction
MooN
M out of N architecture
PFH
Probability of a Dangerous Failure per Hour
FMEDA
Failure Mode, Effects and Diagosis Analysis
λ
Rate for safe detected failures
sd
λ
Rate for safe undetected failures
su
λ
Rate for dangerous detected failures
dd
λ
Rate for dangerous undetected failures
du
DC
Diagnostic coverage of safe failures
s
DC
Diagnostic coverage of dangerous failures
d
FIT
Failure In Time (1 FIT = 1 failure / 10
MTBF
Mean Time Between Failure
MTTF
Mean Time To Failure
MTTR
Mean Time To Repair
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hours)
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