March 1, 2024
We are excited to welcome David Rasmussen, an expert in functional safety and mobile robot safety, to the Phantom team. David joins Phantom as Principal Functional Safety Manager to lead safety and compliance efforts to ensure that Phantom’s products are designed, developed, and deployed with customers in the safest manner.
David is widely recognized as an expert in the fields of functional safety, industrial automation, and mobile robot safety, having spent over 40 years at Rockwell Automation. Most recently, he was a Principal Functional Safety Engineer and Principal Risk Manager at Amazon, where he led safety and compliance efforts for Amazon’s Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR) and Sortation Robotic Systems.
David has shaped industry standards over the years by actively participating in safety and compliance standards committees from RIA, ANSI, UL and other regulatory and compliance authorities. Over the last fifteen years, he has trained and facilitated the certification of thousands of functional safety engineers in machinery safety. David brings invaluable knowledge and deep experience with mobile robot safety products, industrial control products, presence sensing, and advanced safety technology such as networked safety.
David enjoys being a collaborative leader and team member, happily sharing his expertise in all aspects of applying safety standards -- from developing applications, to system and machine design, to training customers.
We are honored that David has joined Phantom to enhance our industrial products and help our customers seamlessly integrate remotely-operated vehicles into their daily operational processes. Welcome to the team, David!
About Phantom Auto
Phantom Auto specializes in remote operation of all logistics vehicles. Phantom’s human-centric interoperable solutions enable people to remotely supervise, assist, and drive vehicle fleets from up to thousands of miles away – including forklifts, robots, trucks, and more. By decoupling labor from location, the company increases labor access and retention, safety, productivity, and resilience across the supply chain. With Phantom, supply chain operators can tap into drivers from anywhere — connecting people who want to work with jobs that need to be filled. The company’s proprietary software delivers secure, low-latency communication over volatile wireless networks for reliable sensor streaming and safe vehicle control. For more information about Phantom, visit www.phantomauto.com.
