Safety and risk reduction are both high priorities for operators in the process industry. Not only is it critical to maintain the health and safety of personnel, but past industrial incidents have caused extensive damage to nearby areas, causing harm to residents and...
For oil & gas, chemical, petrochemical, and pharmaceutical producers, measuring levels in tanks is an important component for inventory management. I saw a write up by Emerson's Kevin Cullen that describes how level measurement is not only important for inventory...
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...
Emerson's Alan Harris has written a new whitepaper, DeltaV SIS HART Capabilities. It describes various HART capabilities that can be used with the DeltaV SIS system as well as HART diagnostics implementation best practices. For those unfamiliar with HART, the HART...
Automation World has a great article, Security and Safety Follow Parallel Paths, which compares and contrasts process safety and cyber security, from a risk management perspective. In an earlier post, I described the ISA99 Working Group 7 (WG7) efforts to look at the...
The Flow Control magazine website has a great Safety Instrumented Systems Primer interview with Emerson's Mike Boudreaux. You may recall Mike and his views on process safety and safety instrumented systems in earlier posts. If you're not already steeped in the...
InTech magazine has a web exclusive on the importance of safety valves in a safety instrumented system. The article, Valve failure: Not an Option, describes methods of implementing partial stroke testing (PST) to reduce the probability of failure upon demand, average...
Emerson's Dale Perry alerted me to a great article on safety-certified sensors in the November 2008 issue of Control Engineering magazine. Dale manages the Emerson's pressure measurement line of products. The article, Practice Safe Sensing; Safety-certified sensors...
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