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Blog Entry: Managing Risk: How Cybersecurity Differs for Facility Managers
Operations and facility managers have a level of responsibility that requires a great deal of judgment, technical understanding, and the ability to make the right call when managing risk. Safe, secure, and profitable plant operations are the cornerstones of how a plant manager is judged. The plant manager relies on…
Honeywell Process Solutions - Experion® C300 Controller with CF9 R501
ISASecure in the Security Automation Equipment List
Recorded Webinars: Managing Cybersecurity Risks in Wireless Control Networks
The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) offers companies many potential benefits such as decreased operational costs and further optimized processes; however, the increased use of wireless control networks also introduces the potential for additional cybersecurity risks. This webinar will briefly review the trends in IIoT and discuss important factors to consider when mitigating the additional risk of wireless control networks.
News Item: exida Featured August 2018 issue of Control Engineering Magazine
exida is featured in the August 2018 issue of Control Engineering magazine. The issue features an educating engineers article submitted by exida as well as features on the advantages of augmented reality, cybersecurity, robotics, and more. Click here to view the issue.
Recorded Webinars: Using Manufacturer Warranty Failure Data (Not)
For decades manufacturers have been using their customer return data to estimate failure rates for their products. exida also uses this data but only for comparison and validation purposes. This webinar will show the result of several of our recent warranty failure calculations and the comparison to the corresponding FMEDA prediction for the same product. We will show how the data is useful for calibrating a component database. We will show why warranty data is not a useful method for realistic failure rates used for safety verification calculations.
Honeywell Process Solutions - ControlEdge UOC
ISASecure in the Security Automation Equipment List
Blog Entry: An Integrator’s Guide to Managing the Cybersecurity Risks of Remote Access
Last week I attended the ISA Water/Wastewater and Automatic Controls Symposium in Bethesda, Maryland. The conference was attended by equipment manufacturers and municipalities, but system integrators composed the largest group. The technical sessions mainly discussed new opportunities for implementing the industrial internet of things (IoT) and cybersecurity concerns. Both topics…
News Item: exida Releases exSILentia Cyber ICS Cybersecurity Tool
exida is excited to announce the release of the exSILentia® Cyber ics cybersecurity tool. Kickstart your pragmatic approach to industrial control system cybersecurity by performing comprehensive analysis using exSILentia® Cyber. exSILentia Cyber helps to streamline communication across an organization and between different departments when performing cyber risk assessments. It provides…
Ametek Process Instruments - WDG-V Oxygen Sensor/Transmitter
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
News Item: exida Introduces ISA-18.2 / IEC 62682 Alarm Management Certificate Program
Sellersville, PA: The global leader in functional safety, cybersecurity, and alarm management for the process industries, exida, has introduced their Alarm Management Practitioner (AMP) Program , a new certificate program that complements the company’s existing functional safety and ICS cybersecurity certificate programs. The AMP Program is designed to teach end…
News Item: New exida eBook on Alarm Shelving
exida is pleased to announce the release of their brand new eBook on Alarm Shelving. The ebook addresses the following topics: Alarm shelving: what it is, and why it is necessary Nuisance alarms and the danger of constant exposure to operators How alarm shelving relieves nuisance alarm fatigue Alarm shelving…
Blog Entry: Alarm Shelving - Relieve the Symptoms of Nuisance Alarms and Create a Peaceful Control Room
In an ideal world, every alarm in a process control system would indicate a malfunction or abnormal condition that required operator action. In the real world, alarms that are irrelevant or annunciate excessively—otherwise known as nuisance alarms—can pop up occasionally to quite frequently. They pose a risk to the successful…
White Paper: The Alarm Shelving eBook
In an ideal world, every control system alarm would indicate a malfunction or abnormal condition that required operator action. In reality, alarms that are irrelevant or annunciate excessively— otherwise known as nuisance alarms—pop up from time to time. They pose a risk to successful operation of the plant because they…
Recorded Webinars: Alarm Shelving - Relieve the Symptoms of Nuisance Alarms and create a Peaceful Control Room
In an ideal world, every alarm would indicate a malfunction or abnormal condition that required operator action. In the real world, alarms that are irrelevant or annunciate excessively—otherwise known as nuisance alarms— can overload operators with nonessential noise and desensitize them to the importance of alarms (“I can ignore this alarm….”). The presence of nuisance alarms is a common contributor to alarm management incidents.
Alarm shelving provides a way for the operator to manage these nuisance alarms safely and securely. Shelving provides a controlled mechanism for the operator to temporarily remove a nuisance alarm from view until the underlying problem can be addressed. It is such an important tool for alarm handling that it is now required control system functionality per ISA-18.2-2016 and IEC 62682 (Management of Alarm Systems for the Process Industries). As a result, more and more control systems have added this as a standard feature.
News Item: exida exhibiting at Automation Expo 2018 in India
exida India will be exhibiting at this year's Automation Expo 2018 in Mumbai from August 29th to September 1st. Stop by stall number K18, Hall no 1 and say hello. Automation Expo is the largest Automation & Instrumentation exhibition in South-East Asia. Under the valiant leadership of Dr. M Arokiaswamy,…
PT. Teknologi Rekayasa Katup - TRK-B1 Trunnion Mounted Ball Valve
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Blog Entry: Do you know your Site Safety Index?
There’s a lot that exida does behind the scenes to advance the industry and benefit you. We try to make sense of data that we collect and put it to good use. One thing we found is that human activities play a role in functional safety, often causing the intended…
News Item: exida Symposium 2018 - Future Challenges of Automotive Safety
exida is hosting a symposium on automotive safety October 18 and 19, 2018 at Arabella Alpenhotel am Spitzingsee in Germany. The Automotive Industry is currently changing rapidly because of new Use Cases like highly or fully autonomous driving and related new technology approaches. This will challenge all participants of development…
Recorded Webinars: Process and Design Safety Requirements Specifications Implementation in exSILentia
The Safety Requirements Specification (SRS) is a key document in the functional safety lifecycle that conveys requirements between phases of the lifecycle. The SRS requirements in the 2016 version of the IEC 61511 standard have been significantly improved over the original requirements in the 2003 edition of the standard. The exSILentia team has implemented the 2016 requirements in the exSILentia software. The initial SRS is typically referred to as the Process SRS as it documents the requirements from the Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) and Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA) on the conceptual design of the SIS and SIFs. In addition to this initial or Process SRS, the exSILentia software also contains a Design SRS. The latter documents the requirements that result from the conceptual design and that apply to the detailed design.
This webinar will review the implementation of the SRS in exSILentia and identify key integration aspects of the software that will make compiling each unique SIFs requirements significantly more efficient. The webinar will also look at the Design SRS and specific aspects addressed by this document.
News Item: Video: Intro to Automotive, Autonomous & Robotic Functional Safety
This is the first part of our Autonomous & Robotic Functional Safety & Cybersecurity for Managers and Practitioners Seminar that was held in the UK in July of 2018. exida Director of Advanced Systems Jonathan Moore explains the legal aspects of functional safety. He also explains the IEC 61508 and…