Bureau Veritas signed strategic cooperation with Hollysys and issued functional safety certificates
On March 14th, the signing ceremony for strategic cooperation between BV and Hollysys and the certification ceremony for functional safety of Hollysys valves were held at the Hollysys Hangzhou basement. Mr. Joey YE, General Manager of the Technology Center of Bureau Veritas Group, Mr. Allan Zhong, Director of the Industrial Product Certification, Mr. Juster Yang, Sales Director of the Eastern Region, Mr. William Zhang BV functional safety expert were representing BV to participate. Hollysys side, Zhao Aibing, General Manager of Hanghe Systems Company and Xuzhou Company, Liu Hua, Assistant General Manager and Manager of the Product Technology Department, and Shi Chunting, Director of the Technology and Quality Department, were attending the ceremony as well.
At the signing ceremony, Mr. Ye, expressed that it was BV ‘s gratitude to Hollysys for its trust and recognition of Bureau Veritas. Bureau Veritas is a globally renowned third-party impartial institution, with 160 locations worldwide, and a reserve of professional talents and technical skills for local regulations and access standards knowledge. Bureau Veritas also attaches great importance to the development of localized businesses. In the field of industrial automation, it is an honor for Bureau Veritas to work with our strategic partners Hollysys to step up to a higher quality and international business stage. We have been endeavoring to do our jobs and bear the social responsibility on shoulders for sustainable development, and made practice and efforts to actively reinforce the sustainable development of industry. It is the great trust and mission that Bureau Veritas has always adhered to in its nearly 200-year-long history.
Mr. Zhao Aibing, General Manager of Hollysys Group Hanghe Systems Company, said it was his sincere gratitude for the opportunity to sign strategic cooperation with the international third-party BV Group today. Hollysys Group attached great importance to future cooperation with BV Group. In the near future, Hollysys would vigorously develop the instruments market, improve its technical capabilities, and bring higher quality instrument products to users. The new generation of pressure transmitters, temperature transmitters, flow meters, and other products that we were currently developing would be recognized in the international market with the assistance of Bureau Veritas. We also looked forward to unveil a new chapter in the business cooperation between Hollysys and Bureau Veritas with win-win cooperation and a promising future.
Zhang Zongwei, functional safety expert from Bureau Veritas, said:Currently, functional safety SIL certification services are being applied to many enterprises in the industrial automation field worldwide, and in some countries, they are even considered mandatory certification requirements. This time, Bureau Veritas conducted a very detailed and prudent evaluation of Hollysys valve products based on the requirements of IEC 61508, and ultimately assessed that the product was up to the standard of SIL 3. The acquisition of the BV Functional Safety Certificate fully demonstrates that Hollysys has established a product development and management process that meets functional safety requirements, reaching international advanced levels, and fully ensuring the product's compliance, safety, integrity, and reliability.
About IEC 61508
As the parent standard for functional safety, IEC 61508 provides users with methods to reduce risks in process. In order to ensure the availability of safety circuits for safety related electronic/electrical/programmable systems, it is necessary to reduce hardware related random failures and systematic failures related to various stages of the product life cycle. IEC 61508 and its related derivative standards have been widely used in fields such as vehicles, railways, process industry, nuclear power, machinery, medical treatment, and household appliances.