Safety System Design Issues

Course Description

This course is intended for those who are directly involved in the preparation of detailed design specifications, detailed engineering, integration, and maintenance of Safety Instrumented Systems. It focuses on the issues, problems, and solutions in designing and maintaining SIS to comply with the requirementsof ANSI/ISA S84.01 and IEC 61511. Most of the course is taught by reviewing and analyzing specific examples drawn from process industries.

• Basic reliability concepts as applied to Safety Systems
• Design and installation requirements to satisfy ANSI/ISA S84.01 and IEC 61511
• Hardware selection for input, logic solvers, and final elements
• SIS application software development.
• How to analyze Safety Instrumented Systems to determine performance metrics

• Control Engineers
• Safety Engineers
• Risk Analysts

• Probability, Statistics, Reliability Concepts, Fundamentals of ilure, failure rate analysis, Block diagrams, Fault tree analysis, voting, redundancy, SIS performance equations and calculations. Review of ANSI/ISA S84.01 and IEC 61511 with respect to design and installation issues.
• Review of SIS devices and equipment available from various suppliers. Selection of input, logic solver, final elements, and overall system architecture. SIS application software ? Requirements, design, development, and testing. SIS design principles, documentation, installation, commissioning, startup, and maintenance.

2 Days

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