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ABB Ability™
Safety Plus for hoists
Reaching new levels
of safety

• SIL 3 Certified IEC 62061

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Legislation is changing
to comply with SIL
Safety Integrity Level
Sweden
– SIL 3 and SIL 2
SIL 3 Certified IEC 62061

Australia
– SIL 2

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What is SIL?
Safety Integrity Level

Safety Integrity Level or SIL is a term used by International While there are four SIL levels, IEC62061 does not recognize
Functional Safety Standards including IEC61508 and SIL 4 as if the process requires SIL 4, it’s sometimes said
IEC62061. SIL levels range from 1 to 4. The higher the num- that the process needs to be reconsidered.
ber, the higher the level of safety and the lower the probabil-
ity that the safety-related system will fail to carry out the re-
quired safety functions.

Safety Integrity Level (SIL) Probability of dangerous failure per hour in continuous mode (mine hoists) Relative Safety Level
Equal to/greater than Less than
4 >10 -9 <10 -8
3 >10 -8
<10 -7
2 >10 -7
<10 -6
1 >10 -6 <10 -5
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Your challenges
Some countries, including Sweden and Australia, have included in their mining
regulations that hoist systems must include functional safety systems.
Other regions are considering implementing similar legislation.

Mandatory or not, more and more mining companies have anyway decided
to increase the level of safety of their mine hoists to ensure their employees
and equipment are safe.

“I need to get
compliant with
SIL certification”

“I want to ensure
the highest level
of safety for my
employees and
equipment”
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ABB does not compromise on safety
ABB introduces ABB Ability™
Safety Plus for hoists

1 2 3 4
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First fully SIL3 certified
suite of mine hoist
solutions
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Designed in accordance
with IEC62061
(International “Safety
of Machinery” standard)
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Rigorously examined and
certified by an independent
global functional safety
certifying body: RISE
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Highest level of safety
available in the market

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About RISE, Research Institute of Sweden
Independent global functional safety certifying body

• RISE is an independent organization that certi-

fied ABB’s functional safety products “fulfill the
requirements in standard IEC62061” – Interna-
tional Standard for Functional Safety of
Machinery.
• RISE provide a wide range of advanced services
and support to industry.
• Their roots go back to 1960s and currently, they
employ over 2800 “problem solvers”. RISE has
a high level of expertise in functional safety and
have presented technical papers on functional
safety within the mine hoist industry. RISE also
provides independent certification services.
• https://www.ri.se/en/about-rise/about-rise
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ABB’s approach to mine hoist safety
ABB Ability™ Safety Plus for hoists portfolio

Safety Plus Hoist Monitor (SPHM) is Safety Plus Brake System (SPBS) pro- Safety Plus Hoist Protector (SPHP) in-
the world’s first mine hoist safety vides the highest level of safety avail- cludes all the safety functionality of
monitor designed in accordance with able to the critically important mine Safety Plus Hoist Monitor, interfaces
IEC62061 international functional hoist brake system. It is the world’s with Safety Plus Brake System, with
safety standards (Safety of Machinery) first mine hoist brake system designed additional SIL based protective func-
and achieving Safety Integrity Level 3 in accordance with IEC62061 functional tionality to not only the mine hoist it-
for the majority of its safety protec- safety standards (machinery) and self but as well to the rest of the mine
tions (SRCFs). achieving independent certification by hoist infrastructure including:
SPHM can be easily installed on any an outside 3rd party organization. • Remote emergency stops in hoist
mine hoist with any type of control sys- Integrated Electrical and Hydraulic house, headframe, shaft locations,
tem. It connects into the existing hoist Design ensures fast and reliable brake etc.
control “safety circuit” and trips the operation providing ease of mind to • Maintenance lock-outs in hoist house,
existing “safety circuit” in case it de- you and your employees. headframe, shaft locations, etc.
tects a safety hazard. SPBS provides the following SIL 3 • Shaft gate interlock
In addition to the critical “overspeed", based protective functions: • Cage door interlock
overwind/underwind, SPHM also in- • Bringing the hoist to a safe state • Tail rope loop
cludes the following additional safety (Stop) after a safety circuit trip and • Inspection platform monitoring
protections: maintaining the safe state (emer- • Shaft obstruction monitoring
• Roll-Back, incorrect direction gency braking)
• Encoder drive failure • Holding the hoist unbalance when
• Protection bypass stopped (service braking)
• Worn friction linings • Prevention of unexpected brake
• Rope Slip ­release when mine personnel are
• Rope Miscoiling ­embarking/disembarking the cage
• Slack Rope (brake channel isolation)
• Unclutched Drum Movement • Holding the unclutched drum un­
balance (brake channel disabling)
• Control of hazardous energy during
maintenance (brake channel
disabling)
• Lowering the hoist unbalance under
gravity force in case of extended
power outage or failure of the drive
system (gravity winding).
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We offer the safest, optimized

and fit-for-purpose hoisting
solutions.

With ABB Ability™ Safety Plus,

take safety to the next level.
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ABB Ability™ Safety Plus for hoists
offers you peace of mind

Protect personnel, Best in Highest

equipment and Class Safety Reliability
infrastructure

Fit for your purpose

and requirements –
ready made safety
solutions

Rugged solutions Exhaustively tested in house,

specifically designed approved by an independent
for tough mine global body and already
environment proven at some mine sites
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ABB Ability™ Collaborative

Operations: new ways of
working together
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Collaboration in data-driven
ecosystem

Customer Consultant 3rd party ABB engineer ABB collaboration expert

Apps, view installed Analysis, advanced Analytics, services, Remote connection, Root Cause Analysis,
assets, view maintenance, generate solutions update task list, live advanced services
operations operations monitor progress
optimization

Web portal Data gets aggregated and ABB Ability™

analyzed in the cloud and is Collaborative
available to key stakeholders of Operations center
the collaborative operations
ecosystem so they can make data
driven business decisions

ABB Ability™ Performance Edge devices/ Fog Hoist System

Optimization for hoists analyzes Data from devices like motors, ABB Ability™
data automatically and present drives etc. are gathered by Safety Plus
actionable insights for engineers sensors and transferred to for hoists
at the mill level Edge devices for analysis
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A new first of its kind for ABB
in mine hoist systems

1891
ABB’s first electrical motor for
a mine hoist in Sweden

1937
ABB’s first one-rope
complete Friction Hoist
delivered to Kristineberg
mine, Sweden (still in
operation)
1946
ABB’s first 4- rope friction hoist

1952
First company to use
hydraulic disc brake
system in mine hoist

1965
ABB’s first mine hoists to China

1984
First company to deliver
PLC controlled mine hoist
(DS 100, Asea Master)

2010
ABB’s first 4-channel brake
system with closed loop
retardation control
launched in the world

2017
First fully certified SIL 3
mine hoist safety monitor
in the world

2020
First certified SIL 3
Brake System and Hoist
Protector System
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Let’s talk
We design our solutions to
your safety requirements

Benefit from ABB’s mine hoist expertise of almost Our mining engineering team has been designing the safest,
130 years optimized and fit-for-purpose hoisting solutions for almost
ABB functional safety experts can design your specific 130 years and over 1000 hoisting solutions worldwide, inte-
safety requirements according to IEC62061 functional grated with advanced digital services. Our engineers have
safety standards and integrate those protections into become domain experts in mine hoist control and safety –
our solutions. an unbeatable combination for the mine hoist industry. They
are available to assist you in performing mine hoist risk as-
sessments and SIL determination, implementing functional
safety management processes or providing after sales as-
sistance with safety audits.
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For contact details,
please visit our website:
abb.com/mining/safetyplus
Or send an email to
[email protected]

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