Emerson's Anand Iyer applies process safety thinking to automobiles. Statistics put highway accidents as the largest human killer. More people die in automobile accidents than in the wars of the modern world, nuclear power plants or process plants. We have put in a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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