Looking for a way to manage and maintain your operation and maintenance data, but don’t know where to start? Are you already using exSILentia® for your safety lifecycle task needs?
If so, SILstat™ offers a simple way to transfer exSILentia project data and build your database. SILstat is exida’s…
While using different safety system management platforms, it is essential to keep system and device data properly arranged between platforms to ensure efficient data management. This can be difficult, but not with SILstat™.
exida’s latest product launch, SILstat, is designed to provide users with a tool to…
In today’s world, having your Operation and Maintenance (O&M) data in a digital format allows for increased accessibility and traceability. Using more traditional recordings, such as on paper or with various Excel notebooks, increases the chances of error or loss of data. These methods also make it difficult to…
Earlier this year, exida announced major enhancements to the SILstat™ product.
SILstat completes the Safety Lifecycle by providing users with a tool to manage and maintain their operation and maintenance data for their installed safety systems and associated field devices.
SILstat is designed to easily…
An exSILentia user just reached out to me inquiring how their SIL verification results changed with changing Site Safety Index (SSI), even though they did not include the SSI in the failure rate selection. Though it is not a frequent question, I can…
Good component failure rate data is a cornerstone of good quality reliability metric analysis. As mentioned in a previous exida whitepaper, one of the shortcomings of reliability databases has been the inability to handle variations in the operating environment. A sensor monitoring a flame and the processor interpreting the signal…
With the drive for digitalization and the Internet of Things the expression “Content is King”, coined by Bill Gates, has now been replaced by “Data is King”. This is especially TRUE in functional safety where the safety and reliability predictions generated from a Failure Modes, Effects & Diagnostics Analysis…
I’ve heard this phrase so many times in my life… “<Something> is the best thing since sliced bread.” I personally can’t remember a time when sliced bread was not available, but I certainly remember going to the deli and having them use the slicing machine before handing me a bag…
The international functional safety standard IEC 61511 provides the safety lifecycle as a steadfast guideline to assess and mitigate risk for manufacturing processes including refineries, chemical, petrochemical, pulp and paper, and power plants. To achieve a functionally safe system, it is essential to follow each…
What does tool integration mean? One can argue it is the ability for different tools to talk to each other and exchange data. Though this may be true from a typical software tool integration, a common definition of integrate, i.e. to bring together or incorporate (parts) into a whole…
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 the PHAx module as part of our exSIlentia Safety Lifecycle Suite.
Process…
The ISA-18.2 and IEC 62682 alarm management standards provide recommended targets for average alarm rate and for alarm floods - a condition during which the alarm rate is greater than the operator can effectively manage (e.g., more than 10 alarm per 10 mins)…
*The “Just Do It” approach was previously referenced in the blog entry Seat-of-your-Pants Software?
If used early in the development lifecycle, a “just do it” approach could help marketing determine the look-and-feel of an application program with a complex user interface. Early software prototyping on a PC…
I remember the first time I ever saw a spreadsheet program. It was called “VisiCalc" and ran on a Commodore PET computer. My first thought was, “What is that good for?” Then I tried it and was totally hooked. I conclude that the creation of the spreadsheet has changed…
You will probably not hear me sing the LEGO® Movie’s “Everything is Awesome” song, I’ll keep that private (and you should be thankful to me for that). However as we just released the LOPAx™ module of the new exSILentia® v4 platform, I have come to…