Imagine leaving some of your portable electronics out on a hot day. Now imagine leaving it out in a desert in the Middle East in the middle of an extremely hot summer. How long do you think it would last? Emerson's David Walker told the story, DeltaV SIS in the Heat...
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Testing the Safety Valve in a Safety Instrumented Function
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...
Safety Instrumented System Documentation Guidance
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...
Functional Safety, a SIF-Based Approach, and Burner Management
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...
Using Syncade Workflow and AMS Device Manager for SIF Proof Testing with DeltaV SIS
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...
Burner Management Systems at Emerson Exchange
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,...
Considering the Whole Loop in Process Safety
In our continuing look at elements in the IEC 61511 process safety lifecycle, I uncovered an excellent presentation, Safety Instrumented Systems - Considering the Whole Loop, by Emerson's Andy Crosland. You may recall Andy from a recent process safety seminar series...
Safety Validation in the IEC 61511 Process Safety Lifecycle
A few weeks ago, I posted Safety Instrumented Function-Focused Approach. It summarized a presentation by Emerson's Russell Cockman and Andy Crosland on the role of an SIS integrator in the implementation phase of an IEC 61511 process safety project. Russell and Andy...
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....
Technology Trends in Process Safety
Emerson's Mike Boudreaux shared a Control Engineering Asia article written by the renowned process safety expert, Paul Gruhn. The article, Providing Process Safety, analyzes some of the latest trends in safety instrumented systems (SIS) designs for the process...
More Thoughts on Executing IEC 61511 Process Safety Projects
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...
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...
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