A question was posed this week to Emerson's Mike Boudreaux about how to take credit for partial stoke tests in a performance verification process. Mike leads the process safety systems efforts and was presenting on this topic this week. He wrote up this post to recap...
Our process safety systems team alerted me to a great study on process safety. The Automation.com site shares an Aberdeen Group December 2010 study, A Roadmap for a Safe and Productive Plant. The research study: ...surveyed more than 230 manufacturing executives to...
Emerson's Maruti Dey, a technical consultant with expertise in safety instrumented systems (SIS), gave an Emerson Exchange presentation, How to Avoid Shooting Yourself in the Foot with Your SIS? In the presentation, Maruti described using SIS transmitters in a...
Emerson's David Sheppard, a certified functional safety expert, passed along a great story of a recent refinery incinerator startup. Over the course of a week, the incinerator was taken down so that the emergency shutdown system (ESD) and process control-related...
Safety instrumented functions (SIFs), also known as safety loops, are comprised of a sensor to sense the process condition, a logic solver to decide the safety action to take, and a final element to perform the action. Emerson's Riyaz Ali and I & C Specialist's C...
Ed Marszal, president of global consulting and engineering firm, Kenexis, shared his expertise in safety instrumented systems and projects in an Emerson Exchange presentation, Best Practices in SIS Documentation. Emerson's Desmond Lee, a member of the process safety...
The product and service roadmap sessions are typically the most highly attended sessions at Emerson Exchange. Attendees are anxious to understand the forward paths for these products and services. You might have already read about this year's DeltaV SIS roadmap...
Earlier this week, Emerson's Chuck Miller and Mike Boudreaux were at the ChemInnovations 2010 conference in Houston, Texas. During this session, presenters talked about topics related to safety and security for instrumentation, automation, and control in the chemical...
Update and bump: Ed was kind enough to allow us to add his presentation into Slideshare (download): Using Syncade Workflow and AMS Device Manager for SIF Proof Testing on a DeltaV SMART SIS SystemView more presentations from Emerson Exchange. Update 2: There was also...
Process safety is top of mind for most manufacturers in the process industries. During the general session at the NPRA 2010 Q&A and Technology Forum in Baltimore this week, the senior VP for refining at Sunoco, Anne-Marie Ainsworth, spoke about the need for...
Bluefield Process Safety's Mike Schmidt and Emerson's Chuck Miller presented What Now? More Standards for Safety and Regulatory Compliance. In their presentation they discuss challenges in developing a solid review and comparison of the burner management safety (BMS)...
The annual Emerson Exchange technical conference is now just a week away. We hope you'll be able to join us in historic, San Antonio Texas for this exchange of expertise. If you're involved in process safety at your plant with equipment such as furnaces, boilers,...
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