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...
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Importance of the Process Safety Management Lifecycle
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...
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,...
Safety Lifecycle Management at Emerson Exchange
While I'm traveling this week to attend a customer event, Emerson's Mike Boudreaux has graciously written the following post to share the process safety-related activities that will be occurring at the upcoming Emerson Exchange in San Antonio. Process safety is on the...
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...
ARC Closer Look at I/O on Demand
Emerson's DeltaV team connected with ARC Advisory Group's Larry O'Brien to share details on the DeltaV I/O on Demand capability in the upcoming DeltaV version 11 release. Larry's ARC View, How Emerson's "I/O on Demand" Is Changing the Automation Infrastructure,...
ARC Update on DeltaV SIS
ARC Advisory Group's recently published ARC View, Emerson Brings DeltaV SIS into the Future with Version 11 Release, describes the continuing advancements of the DeltaV SIS safety instrumented system. DeltaV SIS launched over 5 years ago and this whitepaper provides...
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