Emerson's Mike Boudreaux shares some misconceptions that automation and safety professionals have about functional safety. Here they are in Mike's words: Emerson has provided free safety lifecycle seminars to process industry companies around the world, including...
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...
As we thaw out from this morning's ice and snow here in Austin, Texas, Mike Boudreaux was kind enough to send me his thoughts on a fire & gas system presentation by Emerson's Raphael Lachmann. Raphael, whom you may recall from an earlier marine and offshore safety...
I discussed the use of RTDs and thermocouples for temperature measurement last week in a post, Temperature Measurement and Installation Practices. Emerson's Len Laskowski, a certified functional safety expert (CFSE), was recently asked about the use of thermocouples...
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...
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...
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...
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