The MSA platform
Machine safety shouldn’t depend on spreadsheets and heroics.
Fragmented standards, manual PL and SIL calculations, CE technical files that fall out of date, and too few experts. MSA gives integrators and OEMs one traceable workflow, from the first hazard to the final evidence.
The reality
Safety work is hard, and the usual tools make it harder.
Most compliance work still runs on documents that weren’t built for it. The risk isn’t just effort: it’s rework found late.
01
Standards that don’t talk to each other
ISO 12100, ISO 13849, IEC 62061, IEC 61508. Each has its own method, terms and evidence. Keeping them consistent by hand is slow work, and mistakes are easy to make.
02
Spreadsheets carrying safety-critical logic
Risk registers, PL and SIL calculations and test matrices sit in separate files, with no link between a hazard and the function that reduces it.
03
Documentation that falls behind the design
Each design change means another pass over the risk assessment, the calculations and the CE technical file. Gaps show up late, at FAT or in an audit.
04
Expertise held by a few people
Functional safety specialists are scarce. When the knowledge sits with one or two engineers, projects queue behind them and results vary from team to team.
MSA solves it
One model for every pain point.
Each capability addresses a specific failure in the manual process.
Fragmented methods
Guided risk assessment
A structured ISO 12100 workflow takes you from hazard identification to risk estimation and risk reduction, with the same method on every project.
Spreadsheet calculations
PL and SIL verification
Determine the PLr or SIL, then verify it against ISO 13849 and IEC 62061 inside the model, where every safety function is linked to its hazard.
Documents out of date
Traceable documentation
Every output is linked to its inputs. Change a design parameter and you can see and regenerate the evidence it affects, then export to Word, PDF or Excel.
Standards in silos
Standards library
Requirements from the machinery and functional safety standards sit in one library and are mapped to the steps where they apply.
Scarce experts
Team collaboration
Engineers work in one shared model with clear ownership and review steps, so specialists review the work instead of doing all of it.
Coverage
See the standards MSA supports
How it works
Engineering data in. Certification-ready evidence out.
- 1
Import your machine
Start from your engineering data: machine limits, layout, operating modes and existing safety functions.
- 2
Assess and verify
Work through the guided risk assessment, then specify and verify each safety function against PL or SIL targets.
- 3
Generate the evidence
Export traceable risk assessments, calculation reports and technical file content, ready for review.
Every hazard, traced to a signature.
Each item links to the next. Change one, and the chain shows what to redo.
Hazard
H-04
Robot cell entry
Safety function
SF-03
Door interlock · PL d
Test
FAT-12
STO on open · Pass
Evidence
§4.2
Technical file section
Engineer sign-off
Rev C
Approved for issue
01 · You provide
- Requirements
- Drawings & P&IDs
- System models
- Process data
- Operating conditions
02 · MSA
Safety Intelligence Model
- Applies safety knowledge
- Performs safety analysis
- Maintains traceability
- Generates certification evidence
Runs 100% offline. One change regenerates all affected evidence.
03 · Certification deliverables
- CE Technical File
- HAZOP reports
- LOPA worksheets
- SIF Register
- Test packs (FAT/SAT)
- Validation protocols
See MSA on your next machine
Bring a current project. We’ll show you the workflow from hazard to evidence, using your own type of machine.