Advancing technologies open up new possibilities to improve manufacturing and production processes. But, one of the great challenges is to revamp the work processes and procedures to best take advantage of these technologies. One example is in integrated operations...
Over at the Process Safety Management (1000+) LinkedIn group is a provocative question, Personal Safety & Process Safety - does management really confuse the two? Do engineers confuse them? The thread began a month ago and has 77 responses and 4 "likes" to date....
Emerson's Mike Boudreaux shares some thoughts on a recent ControlGlobal.com article on process manufacturing accidents: Process safety has been a popular topic these days. Unfortunately, it has hit mainstream press because of high profile safety incidents such as last...
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...
Last Friday I highlighted thoughts from Emerson process safety expert, Len Laskowski in the post, Executing IEC 61511 Process Safety Projects. He shared more than I could fit in a single post, so today's post will share the balance. One of the points made by the...
A big thanks to Emerson's Mike Boudreaux for his guest post while I'm out this week. Jim is on vacation this week. He knows that I always have something to say about process safety and functional safety, and so he's agreed to let me to fill in for him as a guest...
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