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Recorded Webinars: Seven Steps to an Effective Alarm Management Program
Are your operators overloaded with alarms or do they ignore nuisance alarms? Do you want to improve your alarm management practices, but don’t know where to start? This presentation discusses how to create an effective and sustainable program using the alarm management lifecycle of the IEC 62682 / ISA-18.2 standards. This unique seven-step process can be applied to brownfield and greenfield applications, independent of control system platform. It includes steps for benchmarking initial performance and identifying systematic issues, developing an alarm philosophy, performing alarming rationalization and implementing the results, creating alarm response procedures, applying advanced alarming techniques, measuring ongoing performance, and performing audits to ensure system integrity.
The presentation will show how following the program will allow you to address common alarm management issues (alarm overload, nuisance alarms, alarm floods, incorrectly prioritized alarms) and create a control room environment that maximizes operator performance, improves process safety, and drives operational discipline. Examples will be taken from multiple control system platforms including Emerson DeltaV, Rockwell PlantPAx, Honeywell Experion, Yokogawa Centum, and Siemens PCS 7.
Recorded Webinars: Are Your Safety Instrumented Systems Proof Tests Effective?
A webinar based on this article in Valve World Magazine.
Most engineers who design and verify safety instrumented functions (SIFs) understand how hard it is to design a manual proof test with high effectiveness (also called high proof test coverage).
Proof test coverage is an important variable in Safety Instrumented System design that can impact risk reduction by an entire SIL level. This is shown in PFDavg calculations.
Everyone in functional safety will tell you that “safety” will vary from site to site, let alone manufacturer to manufacturer. We will start the webinar with the exida approach to unravelling these safety differences.
This Wednesday’s webinar will explain proof test coverage, why this is an important safety parameter, and show that the real objective is to detect failures NOT detected by automatic diagnostics. The seminar will explain how proof test coverage is calculated and show several examples of proof test procedures along with the test coverage.
News Item: exida Certifies Vector AUTOSAR-RTE to ISO 26262 Standard for Functional Safety
AUTOSAR-RTE from Vector Receives Certification for ISO 26262 up to ASIL D from exida The AUTOSAR Runtime Environment (RTE) from Vector fulfills the requirements of ISO 26262 up to ASIL D. exida – an internationally recognized specialist in functional safety – certified this on August 21, 2017. By using the…
Recorded Webinars: Evaluating Manufacturer’s Certificates and Failure Rates (2017)
IEC 61511:2016 asks for three things to be checked to verify a specific design for a given SIL level. When selecting products to use in safety applications, two important pieces of information to perform the verification should be provided by the manufacturer of the product – the functional safety certificate and the failure rate data. Of course, prior use justification can substitute for functional safety certification. But for those who do not have lots of experience with a product, functional safety certification is the preferred path. This webinar will describe the acceptance procedures used by exida when performing third party SIF verification and the reasoning for those procedures. Anyone who has responsibility for safety product selection or SIF verification should attend.
Flowserve Corporation - FlowAct Diaphragm Actuator
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Elliott Company - Pneumatic Trip System
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
News Item: exida Presenting and Exhibiting at 2017 Emerson Global User Exchange
exida will be presenting and exhibiting at the 2017 Emerson Global User Exchange to be held October 2-6, 2017 in Minneapolis,MN. Stop by Booth #220 during exhibit hours. Also, Iwan van Beurden, exida Chief Technology Officer, Kate Hildenbrandt, exida Software Sales Engineer, Todd Stauffer, exida Director of Alarm Management, and…
Flowserve Corporation - Logix 382x Digital Positioner
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Blog Entry: Contractor Cybersecurity Training - Why Do You Need It?
Today, we are going to talk a little bit about Contractor Cyber Training. What's in a good contractor cyber training course? Why do you need one? Why aren't policies, practices, and contract language enough? Today's operators of industrial production facilities frequently utilize contract labor. This means a number of contractors…
News Item: IEC 61508 - An Introduction to Functional Safety in Oak Ridge, TN taught by Dr. William Goble
exida Academy is pleased to announce the open enrollment course IEC 61508 - An Introduction to Functional Safety presented by exida co-founder Dr. William Goble. The course is confirmed and will be held in Oak Ridge, TN (outside Knoxville) from September 26-28, 2017. For more details and to sign up…
News Item: exida Now Accepting Nominations for 2017 Safety Awards
exida, the world’s foremost technical authority and certification agency, is pleased to announce its 2017 exida Safety Awards. The awards are meant to honor the most outstanding functional safety or cybersecurity products/processes certified by exida per IEC 61508/IEC 61511/IEC 62443 in the following categories: Components Engineering Process Final Elements Logic…
News Item: Seminar in the UK: Assessing Plant and Equipment: IEC 61511, IEC 62443, ISA 18.2, and EEMUA 191
28 September 2017 - Manchester, UK exida is hosting a seminar free of charge at the Hilton Manchester Airport on 28 September 2017. Assessing Plant and Equipment – A Holistic approach to Functional Safety, Cybersecurity, and Alarm Management IEC 61511, IEC 62443, ISA 18.2, and EEMUA 191 As technology, threats,…
News Item: Driving Into the Future With Modern C++: A Look at Adaptive Autosar Paper at CppCon
A paper written by exida Germany engineers Piotr Serwa and Piotr Tański along with Jan Babst of Elektrobit Automotive GmbH entitled Driving Into the Future With Modern C++: A Look at Adaptive Autosar will be presented on September 27, 2017 at the CppCon (C++ Conference) in Bellevue, WA. Software development…
Recorded Webinars: No Safe Failures For a Transmitter?
Analog transmitter failure modes are typically dangerous undetected, low, high, and detected. Typically there is no safe (either detected or undetected) failure mode. The low, high, and detected failure modes are to be classified by the end-user based on the actual application that the transmitter is used in. This webinar will review the expected failure modes and then using the exSILentia® SILver™ tool show how failure modes are classified into safe and dangerous, detected and undetected based on the actual application.
Blog Entry: Why Proof Test Coverage Is So Important For A SIF to Achieve Its Target SIL?
This is a question I often get asked when I’m teaching our FSE100 course on Functional Safety, when we discuss the purpose of Proof Testing and coverage. It’s amazing how many end users assume perfect proof testing (i.e. 100% coverage), that is capable of finding, all the potential dangerous undetected…
Vector Informatik GmbH - Vector MICROSAR SafeRTE
ISO 26262 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Recorded Webinars: Decoding the exida Certificate (2017)
A manufacturer whose product passes the exida IEC 61508 Assessment Scheme will receive a certificate based on IEC 61508 and perhaps other functional safety standards. There is a significant amount of information on a certificate that may not always be trivial for a novice. It is important that a user understands that a certificate does not stand by itself, and that it is supported by a detailed assessment report.
This webinar will explain:
- What happens in an exida certification assessment
- How a company gets a certificate and where to find them
- How one should use and interpret an exida certificate
- How the certification relates to functional safety compliance
News Item: New Youtube Video: Why Run-to-Fail Is Not A Good Strategy For Your Safety Instrumented System
Oftentimes, we ask our students whether they have a run-to-fail policy and surprised by how many times we hear the word “yes” in answer. If you are following a run-to-fail strategy for your SIS and its SIFs, you may want to think again because your system may not be as…
Blog Entry: Alarm Management and the Great American Solar Eclipse
Throughout history, total solar eclipses have been a significant event. In primitive societies, eclipses were viewed with fear or as important omens. In the US, the upcoming “ Great American Solar Eclipse ” is creating much excitement. From buying “official” eclipse-viewing glasses, to paying $1500 or more for a hotel…
AZ-Armaturen South Africa (Pty) Ltd - F-3-ISO-STD/CA/CASN/FS/FSN
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List