I was talking to a customer the other day regarding failure rate data and I brought up our Safety Equipment Reliability Handbook (SERH): 4th Edition. Through the years, along with our comprehensive safety lifecycle tool exSILentia, the book set has become one of exida's flagship products. If you…
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- by Rick Smith
- Wednesday, January 04, 2017
- Functional Safety
Conceptual Design and SIL Verification’s Ultimate Resource
- by Dr. William Goble, CFSE
- Monday, July 20, 2015
- Certification
Getting Realistic Failure Rate Data - Part 5
Over the course of several blogs , I will talk about getting realistic failure rate data, where this failure data comes from, and how different methods of failure data analysis compare. I think if you understand this, you will begin to get a very good feel of what it…
- by Iwan van Beurden, CFSE
- Wednesday, October 23, 2013
- Functional Safety
My Proof Test Coverage is Better Than Yours!
Oh Really?
It must have been the week of the Proof Test Coverage (PTC) questions. In the latest marketing wars between vendors, the Proof Test Coverage has been used as a weapon. Who would have ever thought about using Proof Test Coverage to show that product A…
- by Iwan van Beurden, CFSE
- Monday, April 18, 2016
- Functional Safety
PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: Safety Equipment Reliability Handbook, 4th edition
Each month at exida, we strive to spotlight one of our products that makes the job easier for today's industry professional. In this blog, I wanted to talk about our latest edtion of the SERH (Safety Equipment Realiability Handbook).
The SERH provides a collection of failure rate data…
- by Dr. William Goble, CFSE
- Thursday, May 02, 2013
- Functional Safety
Setting the Pace
Going back in time to the turn of the century (remember 2000?), the amount and quality of failure data threatened to doom the whole probabilistic analysis approach. I recall a letter in IEEE Spectrum magazine from Patrick D. O’Conner, a well known reliability engineering author, who expressed the…
- by Loren Stewart, CFSE
- Tuesday, December 22, 2015
- Functional Safety
SILSafe Data Website
exida has launched the web site www.silsafedata.com. SILSafe Data is a web site listing a number of product categories used in process control and the expected range of failure rates for process industry applications. The use of realistic and application appropriate failure rate data has a significant…
- by Iwan van Beurden, CFSE
- Wednesday, October 16, 2013
- Functional Safety
Why Does My Proof Test Coverage Change with Partial Stroke Testing?
I have run into this question a couple of times now and though the answer is somewhat straightforward, some customers have trouble wrapping their head around this without a clear example. So here we go…
First of all we need to keep in mind that the objective of a…