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Training Course: ISO 26262 Road Vehicles Functional Safety - Product Development at the Software Level
Electronic systems carry out many functions in modern automobiles, including driver assistance functions, vehicle dynamics control, and active/passive safety systems. The complexity of electronically-driven operations, especially safety functions, makes predicting safety performance extremely difficult. More action will be required, furthermore, to reduce the risks of systematic and random hardware failures…
Training Course: ISO 26262 Road Vehicles Functional Safety - Hardware Development and Analyses
Electronic systems carry out many functions in modern automobiles, including driver assistance functions, vehicle dynamics control, and active/passive safety systems. The complexity of electronically-driven operations, especially safety functions, makes predicting safety performance extremely difficult. More action will be required, furthermore, to reduce the risks of systematic and random hardware failures…
Training Course: ISO 26262 Road Vehicles Functional Safety – For Leaders
Electronic systems carry out many functions in modern automobiles, including driver assistance functions, vehicle dynamics control, and active/passive safety systems. The complexity of electronically-driven operations, especially safety functions, makes predicting safety performance extremely difficult. More action will be required, furthermore, to reduce the risks of systematic and random hardware failures…
Training Course: ISO 26262 Road Vehicles Functional Safety - Guideline on application of ISO 26262 to semiconductors
This Course is Also Offered Online Electronic systems carry out many functions in modern automobiles, including driver assistance functions, vehicle dynamics control, and active/passive safety systems. The complexity of electronically-driven operations, especially safety functions, makes predicting safety performance extremely difficult. More action will be required, furthermore, to reduce the risks…
Recorded Webinars: Mechanical Issues That Can Impact Your ESD
Are you accounting for all mechanical issues that can impact your ESD?
Safe shutdowns in industrial settings such as a chemical plant, oil refinery or deep sea oil rig, frequently involve safety instrumented systems in place. These safety systems are designed to promptly bring about a safe shutdown of a process if certain hazardous conditions are detected, recurrently encompass isolating a process fluid flow, often accomplished by the use of an ESD (Emergency Shutdown) valve. If the ESD fails dangerously, when a hazardous condition necessitating a shutdown occurs and the ESD does not perform its function when required, the worst case consequences can be catastrophic. To insure a safe process, each individual part of the process is looked at in depth to analyze the failure rate and failure mode data for each component in a safety instrumented function as a safety lifestyle. This webinar will look at the cause and effects of parts on an ESD binding or sticking and other mechanical issues might do to your process.
Bifold Fluidpower Ltd. - EHPC210 Valve Controller
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
News Item: IEC 62443 Certification Accreditation by ANSI
exida has received ANSI (American National Standards Institute) accreditation for Certification Body scope extensions for the IEC 62443 cybersecurity standards. Four new schemes have been defined. New schemes include: The eSDC (exida Security Device Certification) which covers control, network, platform, and application “devices” as defined in IEC 62443. The eSDP…
Recorded Webinars: The Evolving IEC 62443 Cybersecurity Certification
Discussions about cybersecurity are becoming more and more common. Committees are being formed, schemes are being developed, and companies are now starting to certify their products and processes. Due to the increased risks of cybersecurity, the global IEC 62443 committee has taken the baton and has created a set of standards to help protect manufacturers, end users, and people. This webinar will answer some frequently asked questions when discussing IEC 62443 cybersecurity certification.
News Item: White Paper Update: exida IEC 61508 - Functional Safety and IEC 62443 - Cybersecurity Certification
The exida IEC 61508 Certification Program was established in 2005 in response to demand primarily from end users in the process industries and manufacturers of instrumentation products. There was a need to provide a higher quality of technical expertise with effective and responsive service. exida is an accredited Certification Body…
News Item: exida Oil & Gas/Petrochemical event in Indonesia
50 Indonesian Oil & Gas/Petrochemical companies attended an event organized by exida Asia Pacific in Jakarta on November 24, 2017. Mr. Paul Chan from exida Asia Pacific presented two topics – “ Overview of exSILentia Safety Lifecycle Suite ” and “ Seven Steps to an Effective Alarm Management Program ”.…
Blog Entry: The Undetected Detective; PVST
Have you ever wondered why some dangerous failures are classified as undetected and others are classified as detective? Aren’t dangerous failures all dangerous? Why do we classify them differently? Let's say we have a plant that is running in normal operation mode and the system needs to trip. The safety…
Parker Hannifin Manufacturing SRL - Solenoid Valves types F, V, X and N
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
White Paper: The Meaning of Diagnostic Test Interval and It’s Impact on the Performance of SIFs
This paper explains what a diagnostic test interval (DTI) is, how it is measured, and how it impacts the safety performance of a safety instrumented function (SIF). In applications where a dangerous condition occurs infrequently, the DTI has an insignificant impact on PFDavg. For example if a dangerous condition occurs…
News Item: New White Paper: Safety Instrumented Function Verification: The Three Barriers
Safety Instrumented Function Verification: The Three Barriers The three constraints (systematic capability constraint, architectural constraint, and probabilistic performance metric constraint) that are implied by requirements per international safety standards IEC 61511 [1] and IEC 61508 [2] to determine the safety integrity level (SIL) of a safety instrumented function (SIF) are…
News Item: exida Announces the Addition of Jonathan Moore to Support Automotive and Robotics Solutions
exida is pleased to announce the addition of Jonathan Moore to our North American team. Jonathan joins exida as the Director of Advanced Systems and has over 20 years of automotive and robotics experience in systems engineering, failure mode avoidance, and standards based software development. He joins from Autonomous Solutions…
News Item: Emerson Collaborates with exida to Reduce Complexity and Time Required for Safety System Setup
AUSTIN, TEXAS – Emerson and exida announce the release of the DeltaV™ safety instrumented system 〈SIS〉 configurator , an exida exSILentia® tool that automatically generates DeltaV SIS configurations. By pairing built-in DeltaV functionality with exida’s comprehensive software tools for functional safety, users can develop safety logic configurations much faster and…
News Item: Article in SCSC Newsletter: Conforming to IEC6511: Operations and Maintenance Requirements
An article authored by exida's Steve Gandy entitled: Conforming to IEC 6511: Operations and Maintenance Requirements has been published in the Safety-Critical Systems Club newsletter . It is hard to believe that the IEC 61511 standard has been in existence since 2003 and most companies operating in the process, chemical,…
White Paper: Safety Instrumented Function Verification: The Three Barriers
The three constraints (systematic capability constraint, architectural constraint, and probabilistic performance metric constraint) that are implied by requirements per international safety standards IEC 61511 [1] and IEC 61508 [2] to determine the safety integrity level (SIL) of a safety instrumented function (SIF) are described and discussed. Examples of their applications…
Recorded Webinars: What is Safety Culture?
A look at safety culture, how it effects SIFs and the Site Safety Index!
Numerous field failure studies have shown that the failure rate for a specific device (same Manufacturer and Model number) will vary from site to site. Research has concluded that random failures can be divided in to two categories: product specific and site specific. The difference in failure rates could be any range from 1.2X – 2X based on data received to date. The Site Safety Index (SSI) was created to account for these failure rates differences as well as other variables. exida has written the Site Safety Index (SSI) information in the FMEDA reports, to provide an overview of the Site Safety Index (SSI) model used by exida to compensate for site variables including device failure rates.
This webinar will provide an overview of the impact of SSI on random failure rates, realistic PFDAVG calculations, and the impact of a good safety culture on lifecycle cost, along with reviewing the changes in the exida FMEDA report which captures this information.
News Item: exida Presenting and Exhibiting at the 2017 Rockwell Automation Fair
exida will be presenting and exhibiting at the 2017 ROCKWELL AUTOMATION FAIR. The fair will be held at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas 15-16 November 2017. Stop by Booth 1717 and say hello. The 2017 Automation Fair® event will feature in-depth industry training and showcase Rockwell's…