Iwan van Beurden

Bio

Iwan van Beurden has over 7 years of professional experience. He currently is a Senior Safety Engineer with exida where he performs Failure Modes, Effects, and Diagnostic Analyses, a variety of reliability analyses and SIL verifications. He also performs process gap analyses to determine the level of effort companies need to undertake for compliance with IEC 61508. He gives training for exida and is also an ISA instructor. Iwan is responsible for the development and maintenance of exida’s automated tools like the Project Manager Suite of online Safety Lifecycle tools, integrating SILect for SIL selection, SRS for Safety Requirements Specification, and SILver for SIL verification.

Iwan previously worked for Yokogawa Industrial Safety Systems in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands. He worked both in the R&D and in the Operations department as a Safety Assessment specialist. He was involved with the implementation of IEC 61508 within Yokogawa Industrial Safety Systems dealing with SIS reliability calculations and the safety education of engineers. Iwan is a member of ISA. He has published several papers and magazine articles. Iwan is a Certified Functional Safety Expert. He holds a master of science degree from Eindhoven University of Technology in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, where he majored in reliability engineering and graduated cum laude.