Ensure the safety of your tractors and machinery for agriculture and forestry
Ensure the safety of your tractors and machinery for agriculture and forestry
Nowadays, any type of vehicle is becoming more intelligent. Frequently they are equipped with intelligent electronics – and this is also true for machinery in the agricultural and forestry industry like driverless tractors with combined harvester or automated felling and extraction equipment. Therefore, manufacturers need to ensure compliance to ISO 25119 standard for their applications. Safety goals need to be fulfilled, conforming to specified Agricultural Performance Levels (AgPL).
To ensure vehicle safety manufacturers must not only have a look at certain development phases. Instead, there is a need to inspect the whole system within the entire vehicle or machinery life cycle. This stretches from the first developmental steps to decommissioning.
ISO 25119 defines general principles for the design and development of safety-related parts of EUC control systems (SRP/CS) on tractors, municipal equipment like street-sweeping machines and other machines used in agriculture and forestry. The standard specifies the characteristics and categories required of SRP/CS for carrying out their safety-related functions and refers to any possible hazard which could be caused by any interference behavior related to the safety-related parts of electrical/electronic/programmable electronic systems (E/E/PES).
The standard ISO 25119 for tractors and machinery for agriculture and forestry is an industry-specific implementation of IEC 61508 and resembles a merger of modified and simplified ISO 26262 (automotive functional safety) and ISO 13849 (machinery functional safety). It defines the Agricultural Performance Levels (AgPL) and consists of four main parts:
For vehicle safety, various standards are in place. By demonstrating compliance to the relevant functional safety standards, the safety of your vehicles can be ensured.
The assessment according to ISO 25119 considers all relevant requirements for your agricultural and forestry vehicles. It ensures, that neither the environment nor the user will be harmed due to incorrect functionality of the vehicle.
Using ISO 25119 to evaluate the overall safety of your tractors and other agricultural and forestry vehicles and/or corresponding systems provides multiple benefits for your business and customers:
TÜV SÜD´s functional safety assessment for agricultural and forestry machinery supports you in ensuring that all safety requirements are met, and your vehicles operate safely. We support you with the following services:
At TÜV SÜD we have a long history in providing functional safety services along the entire vehicle value chain and provide guidance already in the early stages of a project. We proudly look back to a history of over 100 years of experience in providing solutions for safe mobility worldwide. TÜV SÜD is known as a neutral and independent third-party inspection service provider and can effectively support you in receiving compliance to required safety standards to ensure high and safe performance levels.
Our experts are part of a strong international network of technical experts and regularly exchange on best practices and future-oriented services. We participate in various relevant safety committees to further develop relevant safety standards and regulations
Our pool of interdisciplinary experts leverages its experience and knowledge to provide you with overall solutions covering all relevant fields of system safety. This includes electrical safety, environmental testing, cybersecurity and much more. We partner with you to ensure the safety of your tractors and other agricultural and forestry machinery and that new mobility solutions can be safely broad to the roads.
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