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...
SIS
Views on Safety System and Control System Separation
Charles Fialkowski's blog post last week, To Integrate or not to integrate Safety and Control describes some of the continued discussions going on concerning separation of the safety instrumented systems (SIS) and basic process control systems (BPCS). He wrote: Today,...
Stories of Operator Training Solutions
Our internal blogs at Emerson (blogs.emersonprocess.com for those readers with access to the Emerson internal network) are vibrant and growing. One of the folks I've featured in past posts, Jeff Hackney, who leads the DeltaV operator training solutions (DeltaV OTS)...
Bring Recognition to Your Innovative Work with HART Communications
I wanted to give a quick mention of the HART Communications Foundation's annual HART Plant of the Year End Users' Award. They are encouraging nominations from all world areas through May 31. I mention this because some process manufacturers have begun to include...
Better Operational Decisions from a Safety Viewpoint
Recently at the International Health, Safety, Environment, and Loss Prevention Conference in Kuwait, Emerson's David Walker had the opportunity to present on the topic of process safety. His presentation, Using a Smart Safety Instrumented System (SIS) to Make Better...
Volume Tank Considerations in Process Safety Applications
Update: A blog visitor asked about the volume tank sizing calculations, Here's a link to the Fisher Type 377 Trip Valve Bulletin which includes volume sizing calculations on page 8. I saw a great process safety article in InTech magazine titled, When failsafe isn't...
Solutions for SIS and Foundation Fieldbus
I'm lucky enough to receive a copy of Andrew Bond's Industrial Automation Insider newsletter each month through an Emerson subscription agreement. Andrew covers the happenings among the automation suppliers and standards bodies. You can also find some of Andrew's...
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