2011 was a good year in many ways for Functional Safety and Cyber Security. Several instrumentation products achieved IEC 61508 certification. exida Certification alone issued 64 product certifications (http://www.sael-onine.com). With most certification projects, improvements to the design and quality are made. Some manufacturers…
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- by Dr. William Goble, CFSE
- Tuesday, March 08, 2011
- Certification
Counterfeit Certificate!
I am told that plagiarism is a compliment. Since exida is the leading company for IEC 61508 certifications I suppose it was bound to happen. Well it did. exida got an email from our sales representative in China. He asked why this certificate was not listed on the…
- by Dr. William Goble, CFSE
- Wednesday, April 19, 2017
- Certification
Tales from the Certification Wars - Proven In Use versus Certification
There have been passionate debates in email and meetings about “Proven In Use” versus IEC 61508 certification. Most debates characterize these evaluation techniques as competing methods. In 2000 when IEC 61511 was being written there were few IEC 61508 certified products on the market. The…
- by Iwan van Beurden, CFSE
- Tuesday, January 17, 2012
- Certification
Why am I not on “the list?”
Many will agree that exida's Safety Equipment Reliability Handbook (SERH) and the Safety Automation Equipment List (SAEL) are very useful tools for choosing products to use in safety instrumented systems. The SAEL shows a product’s IEC 61508 and cyber security…