Emerson's Janka O'Brien, with support from MC Chow, teamed up with Robert Ancrum, the SIS Technical Authority for a major Midwestern U.S. refiner, to tell a story of a control system and SIS modernization project. Their abstract: This session is to discuss DCS...
I received a great question about the application of the IEC 61511 safety lifecycle. The person noted that a question was raised after the safety integrity level (SIL) study and safety requirements specification (SRS) had been performed. The question is about the...
Sometimes an email exchange turns up something developed years ago that still has great value. So is this case with an article I received as an attachment on final control elements and their suitability in safety instrumented functions (SIFs), a.k.a. safety loops. The...
Process safety revolves around managing the risks of your production process throughout the life of your plant, mill or production facility. The international safety standard, IEC 61511 (Functional safety - Safety instrumented systems for the process industry sector):...
If you're not fluent in Polish, you may have missed a recent Automatyka article, Bezpieczeństwo funkcjonalne zgodne z normami [Functional Safety Compliance]. Emerson's Andy Crosland and Ryszard Boroń wrote it and provided me an English translation of the article so...
In an earlier post, Wired Versus Wireless Risk Analysis for Process Instrumentation Measurements, we highlighted the fault tree methodology for performing risk analysis on wired and wireless instrumentation. Emerson's Jonas Berge added a thoughtful comment which I...
How does wireless communications compare against wired communications for process instrumentation? That was the subject of an Emerson Exchange presentation by Kenexis' Ed Marszal and Emerson's Gary Hawkins. Their presentation, Risk analysis of wired versus wireless...
Last week at the Emerson Exchange conference, I caught up with Emerson's Riyaz Ali. You may recall Riyaz from many safety instrumented system-related posts. We discussed some of the trends in integrated positioners + solenoid valves + limit switches + valve position...
A tremendously experienced panel in functional safety included Dipl.-Ing.(FH) Senior Project Manager, Josef Neumann TÜV NORD Systems, Dr. William Goble Principle Partner, Exida, Russell Cockman Consultant SIS, Emerson, Nicolas Menet, Business Development Manager for...
Emerson's Carsten Thoegersen and Emanuele Rivolta shares his expertise on high-integrity pressure protection systems in process safety applications. Their abstract: HIPPS (High-Integrity Pressure Protection System) is a part of the Safety Instrumented System (SIS) &...
If you work with pumps in your facility, you may be familiar with the Empowering Pumps site, a wealth of information to help you with these important assets in your plant. Founder Charli K. Matthews has launched something similar for valves, Empowering Valves. I had...
Once again, it's Chris Womack back with a guest post related to terminals. Just a quick mention here of the fast, new, but still memorably named Fisher N863 Snappy Joe Emergency Shutoff Railcar Valve (pdf). You see, for the past three decades or so, there's only been...
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