Case Studies
Solvay plant Reduces Downtime and Improves Safety through Alarm Management
The Solvay Novecare plant in Pasadena, Texas had nuisance alarms, critical alarms that weren’t (critical), and production delays due to alarms being missed. A stronger alarm management program was needed to create a safer and more productive plant.
Functional Safety Lifecycle Gaps Closed at Greenfield Fertilizer Facility
exida® helps a chemical producer close gaps in functional safety design and implementation before hazards are introduced to the process.
Cybersecurity Gap Analysis and High-Level Risk Assessment
A water plant approached exida to conduct a cybersecurity gap analysis and high-level risk assessment with the aim of abiding by the AWIA cybersecurity requirements.
Certifying Emerson’s DeltaV SIS with Electronic Marshalling to SIL 3 per IEC 61508
Based in part on the successful IEC 61508 certification of Emerson's SLS1508 in 2007, exida was again selected as the Certification Body for their next big product.
Specialty Chemical Producer Executes Successful DIY Alarm Rationalization
A specialty chemical plant located in the Southeastern US realized they had issues with the way they were doing alarm management. exida provided the tools, training, and DeltaV alarm management expertise to enable the team to be successful.
Certifying Moore Industries’ STA Logic Solver to SIL 3
How exida helped Moore Industries achieve SIL certification for their Safety Trip Alarm (STA) logic solver through extensive training and upgrading of existing processes.
Certifying Profire Energy’s Logic Solver to SIL 2
How exida helped Profire achieve SIL certification for their PF3100 logic solver through extensive training and upgrading of existing processes.
exida Helps UK Chemical Plant Comply with HSE Alarm Management Regulations
With the help of exida, a chemical plant in Liverpool successfully implemented a continuous alarm management program.
Achieving SIL 3 Certification
How exida worked to certify National Instrument's award winning logic solvers.
Industrial Cybersecurity Solution - Network Segmentation
Network Segmentation and the Fragile PLC. exida performs a Cybersecurity Vulnerability Assessment on an oil refinery.
Industrial Cybersecurity Solution - Lifecycle
exida performed a cybersecurity review and assessment. The major deliverables were to evaluate the asset inventory process and methodology a and to propose changes to the Process Control Network (PCN) infrastructure with mitigation steps to improve security.
Cybersecurity Vulnerability Assessment (CVA)
exida worked with an Oil & Gas company to perform a Cybersecurity Vulnerability Assessment (CVA) on a gas refinery process control network.
Industrial Cybersecurity Solution and Training
Regional Wastewater Treatment Facility Secures Network PLCs with Belden-exida Solution and Hands-on Training.
Alarm Management Solution
exida worked with Ashland to Implement an Alarm Management Program that Makes the Alarm System More Useful during an Upset and Addresses the Loss of Experienced Operators.