How This Manual Is Organized; How To Use This Manual - Mitsubishi Electric MELSEC-QS Series Safety Application Manual

HOW THIS MANUAL IS ORGANIZED

HOW TO USE THIS MANUAL

The section in this manual or another relevant manual that can be referred to is shown as
follows:
( Section 3.5)
In addition, this manual provides the following explanations.
POINT
In addition to description of the page, notes or functions that require special
attention are described here.
Remark
The reference related to the page or useful information are described here.
This manual describes the points to be concerned when configuring safety application that
meets the safety standards using the safety programmable controller.
Although the safety application configuration example is shown in CHAPTER 5 and
CHAPTER 6 of this manual, authentication is not obtained. The safety standards confor-
mance approval must be obtained for the user with the entire safety-related system.
This manual is classified roughly into five chapters as shown below.
CHAPTER 1 Describes the outline of the safety programmable controller.
CHAPTER 2 Describes the safety application that is configured using the safety
programmable controller.
CHAPTER 3 Describes the risk assessment, Category, and SIL.
CHAPTER 4 Describes the cautions for use of the safety programmable controller.
CHAPTER 5 Describes a safety application example (when a single safety
programmable controller is used).
CHAPTER 6 Describes a safety application example (when several safety
programmable controllers are used).
For the detailed specifications and functions of each module, refer to the related manuals.
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