YOUR FUNCTIONAL SAFETY & CONTROL SYSTEM SECURITY PARTNER OF CHOICE

exida is a unique organization rich with Functional Safety and Control System Security support, products, services, experience, expertise, and an unending quest to exceed customer expectations. Fully integrated with global Functional Safety and Control System Security requirements and standards, exida delivers best-in-class products, services, and solutions to both automation hardware manufacturers and process market end users.

Established by several of the world's top safety, security, and reliability experts, the company is owned by these partners and independent of any vendor ownership. Using a combination of over 60 years experience in safety, security, and reliability of automation systems, exida has developed a series of proven sample documents, templates, techniques and procedures to assure quick and effective service.

MISSION STATEMENT

	To be the leading merchant of knowledge products, tools, and intellectual properties in safety and availability of industrial automation.
	To provide a good return on investment for our shareholders and a rewarding, challenging environment for the staff.
	To help clients limit expenses in their automation systems by providing products, consulting and training in system design, operational decisions and business processes that relate to automation safety, security, and availability.
	To be an independent knowledge resource founded on a passion for innovative, high performance safety,security, and availability of automation processes and designs.

GLOBAL ORGANIZATION

exida, located in Sellersville, PA, is our North American headquarters for Functional Safety and Security Product Certification Operations. exida has a core expertise in a Knowledge Base infrastructure providing a certified hardware and software reference library, multiple modules of training and orientation products, and leading edge technical support tools.

Byres Research, a wholly owned subsidiary of exida, located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada is the North American headquarters for our Control System Security consulting operations. Byres Research is a world-class team of security and controls systems professionals dedicated to helping corporations and government agencies defend critical Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) and industrial control systems from Cyber attack.

The European Headquarters, located in Fischbachau Germany, provides expertise in the areas of international standards application and safety instrumentation systems. This organization has become the world’s leading safety certification agency providing support on most of the equipment safety certifications in the world and has published many of the technical papers used as reference in this technical community. Our Management Executives hold major position in most of the major organizations and standards groups involved with Functional Safety and chair the German DIN committee on “Computers in safety systems and applications.”

exida's global resources provide life cycle support focusing on Functional Safety and Control System Security Analysis, Realization and Operations with extensive experience in major markets like Oil and Gas, Chemicals, Power, Pharmaceuticals and Automotive. The team has developed into a significant provider of Functional Safety and Control System Security products and services while at the same time developing and promoting the entire concept of third party safety certification across the world.

SOLUTION

exida’s solution, a focused & integrated service package, provides the complete Functional Safety and Control System Security Supply chain. This capability focuses on the certification of automation hardware for manufacturers and provides life cycle support for process and manufacturing plant end users.

Responsiveness and objectivity are also excellent qualities for an outsourcing partner to provide. exida’s staff, having worked for both automation manufacturers and process manufacturers, provides customers with an understanding of plant and market drivers and needs to optimize the process of achieving certified hardware and process functional safety and security.

Quality is built into our organization from the ground up. Embedded into our culture and orientation, we provide uncompromising levels of quality from sales support to final delivery.

EXIDA RESOURCES – OUR VALUED DIFFERENTIATOR

The Functional Safety and Control System Security support team exhibits personal drive and is determined to be successful through innovation and flexibility. The efficient Safety and Security Lifecycle Implementation process, combined with our support resources, provides end users with an optimized safety and security implementation system. This approach insures systems are implemented with the proper safety and security levels, without excessive utilization of redundancy and multiple field instrument and control devices. exida’s human assets, truly global citizens, are participants in Functional Safety organizations and standards groups and are supported with continuous development training and improvement programs to insure a fresh and nimble team supports our customer’s needs.

PARTNER APPROACH

exida’s globally integrated Functional Safety solution, supported with a quality foundation, continuous improvement, customer focus, and valued commitment , substantiates us as a partner of choice. We are a single global organization supporting your important project.