Digitalization

Functional Safety generates information throughout the lifecycle of safety-related systems. When information, processes and responsibilities are distributed across assets, teams and locations, maintaining visibility, consistency and compliance can become increasingly complex.

#safetygoesdigital is HIMA Group's approach to digitalizing Functional Safety. Combining Functional Safety expertise and consulting with appropriate digitalization capabilities, security and lifecycle support, HIMA helps organizations manage complexity and make better-informed decisions.

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Why Digitalize Functional Safety?

Digitalization creates value when it makes Functional Safety easier to manage and supports the people responsible for engineering, operation, maintenance and governance. Meaningful digitalization starts with the challenge, not the technology. That is why HIMA identifies where digitalization can add value before selecting the appropriate solutions, technologies, and services.

Simplicity

Make Functional Safety easier to manage.

Visibility & Insight

Turn safety information into actionable insight.

Assurance

Maintain safety, security and compliance.

Reliability

Strengthen operational reliability.

Establish a Consistent Foundation

Structured information supports activities such as HAZOP and LOPA and creates a reliable basis for subsequent lifecycle phases. Maintaining visibility and traceability from the earliest stages helps ensure that assumptions, decisions and safety requirements remain accessible as projects progress and systems evolve.

Improve Traceability Across Safety Engineering

From Safety Requirement Specifications (SRS) and SIL verification to Cause & Effect engineering, digitalization helps maintain consistent information across engineering activities. Structured workflows and traceable data support collaboration, reduce manual effort and improve visibility throughout the implementation process.

Make Operational Information Actionable

Proof tests, bypasses, failures, demands and SIF performance generate valuable information during operation. Digitalization helps make this information more visible and supports maintenance planning, prioritization and ongoing performance monitoring of safety-related systems.

Support Compliance and Lifecycle Control

Activities such as Functional Safety Assessments (FSA), Management of Change (MOC), actions and documentation depend on consistent and accessible information. Digitalization helps maintain traceability, support governance processes and ensure that relevant information remains available when demonstrating compliance or managing change.

Safe and Secure Operations

No Safety without Security

Safety and security are inextricably linked. At the same time, both disciplines require dedicated expertise and must be addressed appropriately throughout the operation of safety-related systems. The HIMA Security Environment for Functional Safety provides a secure foundation for digitalization. By combining Functional Safety and cybersecurity considerations, it helps organisations maintain safety, security and compliance in increasingly connected environments.

Independent Open Digital Platform

hima360

hima360 combines HIMA's Functional Safety know-how with a secure, multi-layered and open digital platform. It provides the technological foundation for managing Functional Safety information, supporting digital applications and enabling digitalization initiatives across increasingly connected environments.

By bringing together information from different lifecycle activities, hima360 helps make relevant Functional Safety information accessible where it is needed and provides a common foundation for digital applications, services and workflows.

Safety Lifecycle Digitalization

Activities such as HAZOP and LOPA studies, digital SIF engineering, proof testing, operational performance monitoring and governance processes generate large amounts of information. hima360 provides a common platform foundation for managing and using this information across different lifecycle activities.

Building on HIMA's Safety Lifecycle Digitalization approach, relevant information remains accessible throughout engineering, operation and governance processes, helping organizations maintain traceability and lifecycle continuity as systems evolve.

Operational Visibility and Insight

Safety-related information becomes valuable when it can be accessed, understood and acted upon. hima360 supports applications and visualizations that help make Functional Safety information more accessible to engineers, operations teams and decision-makers.

By providing visibility of relevant information and operational activities, organizations are better equipped to identify priorities, support maintenance planning and maintain control of safety-related systems. Solutions such as the SLD Dashboard build on this foundation to make Functional Safety information more accessible to non-expert users.

Digital Services

HIMA Digital Services combine Functional Safety expertise with digital capabilities to support activities such as proof-test optimization, data analytics and the continuous improvement of safety-related processes.

By combining digital information with consulting, analysis and lifecycle expertise, organizations can gain additional value from their digitalization initiatives while maintaining focus on safety, security and operational requirements.