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...
layers of protection analysis
Field Device Sharing Between Control and Safety Systems
Emerson's Mike Boudreaux has been receiving great questions on process safety and the IEC 61511 global safety standard during some of the recent Safety Lifecycle Seminars. He's written a post to address one of them: A very common topic of discussion is the sharing of...
Safety Instrumented Function-Focused Approach
Update and Bump: Here's information on Russell's and Andy's UK Safety Seminar Series. Emerson process safety experts Russell Cockman and Andy Crosland recently presented at the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) North West Members Group in the United Kingdom....
Executing IEC 61511 Process Safety Projects
ControlGlobal.com has an excellent article on the global process safety standard, IEC 61511. The article, IEC 61511 Implementation - The Execution Challenge, shares the experiences of two Mustang Engineering process automation project veterans. I turned to one of...
Control Systems for SIL 1 Safety Applications?
I received a great question today about the safety integrity level (SIL) of a distributed control system (DCS). In this case, the question was specific to the DeltaV system: Can you please advise if the Emerson DeltaV DCS has a SIL rating i.e. '0' or '1'? I understand...
Similarities and Differences in Fired Heater Safety Standards
We discussed the energy efficiency and other opportunities with fired heaters in past posts. I caught wind of a presentation that Emerson's safety specialist, Chuck Miller will be giving at the upcoming March 21-25 AIChE Spring National Meeting and Global Congress on...
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