Siemens SITRANS P DS III - Further Information

Functional safety
8.7 PROFIsafe
SITRANS P DS III with PROFIBUS PA
Operating Instructions, 06/2013, A5E00053276-07
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8.7.3
Further information
Standards
The PROFIsafe protocol was developed while taking the international standard IEC 61508
into account. The IEC 61508 governs the requirements for the functional safety of products
and systems. The use of the IEC 61508 in the process industry is described in the
application-specific standard IEC 61511.
Safety levels
The device meets the requirements of Safety Integrity Level 2 (SIL).
Note
You will find more information on safety engineering and installing PROFIsafe in the
document "Safety Engineering
in SIMATIC S7".
See also
General functional safety (http://www.siemens.com/safety)
Functional safety in process instrumentation (http://www.siemens.com/SIL)
Product information on SITRANS P in the Internet (http://www.siemens.com/sitransp)