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Recorded Webinars: Motor Controllers 101
Motor Controllers in electrical final elements are becoming a hot topic. With less data and experience available for these electrical final elements, placing them in a safety function becomes challenging.
This webinar will discuss:
- What is a motor controller
- Does the market see a need for safety
- How do you select or evaluate one for a safety system
Recorded Webinars: Functional Safety Management Planning, Part 3 - Implementation, Operation and Beyond
This is the third in a series of three webinars on Functional Safety Management Planning. Part 3 focuses on verification, implementation and operation elements of the safety lifecycle. In part 2, lifecycle verification requirements are enumerated and an approach to implementation were suggested. Part 3 will highlight several challenges frequently experienced in verification and how these can affect the final validation. Tips to vet certificates and failure rate data are provided. Key requirements for the implementation and monitoring plan are given and supporting procedures are suggested. Finally, we will discuss requirements modification and decommissioning.
Recorded Webinars: Evaluating a Functional Safety Certificate: What It All Means
You are about to buy a functional safety certified product and are presented a certificate. What does all the information on it mean? How do you know what to look for? How do you interpret if the product will suit your needs?
This webinar will investigate the significant amount of information on a certificate that may not be always trivial for a novice. We will break down the certificates to understand each section, learn how to interpret the information given to see if that product will be your best option, and look at examples along with how to spot a fake!
Blog Entry: Making the Most of Customer Feedback
Your organization gets information, feedback, and requests from customers all the time. It’s up to you to do some preliminary analysis and determine what the customer really wants. Do they want to buy something? Do they want to complain about something? Do they have a need for which no one…
Blog Entry: exida Cyber Blog Series 04 - Cybersecurity Metrics, Diagnostics, and Alarms: What’s What?
Co-written by Todd Stauffer, Director of Alarm Management Services at exida A wise man once said, “You can’t manage what you don’t measure.” Let's apply this to the world of cybersecurity to discuss the importance of cybersecurity metrics and how they are different from a cyber diagnostic and a cyber…
Recorded Webinars: Electric Final Control Devices
While majority of safety instrumented functions utilize a valve assembly as the final element a fair number use electric final elements. There is less data and experience available for electric final elements making the design and maintenance areas of the lifecycle more challenging. This webinar will review some of the more common electric final elements, the data available for modeling them, and some of the considerations to include when designing them into safety systems.
Swagelok Company - Series AFS & SK
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Swagelok Company - Series 83 & H83
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Swagelok Company - Series BN, HB & U
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Swagelok Company - Series C, CA, CH, CP & CPA
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Swagelok Company - Series DF, DP, DL & DS
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Swagelok Company - Series N & HN
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Detector Electronics, LLC - FlexVu® Model UD10 with Model CGS
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Autronica Fire and Security - AutroVu Model AV10 with Model CGS
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Blog Entry: Why Run-to-Fail Is Not A Good Maintenance Strategy For SIS
One of the fundamentals of the Probability of Failure on Demand (PFDavg) calculations in SIL verification analysis, is the concept of a constant failure-rate during useful life of the equipment. Probabilistic calculations assume that the failure rate of the devices used in a Safety Instrumented System 〈SIS〉 remains constant during…
News Item: exida Certifies Emerson TEC2000 with TEC2 Electronics Electric Actuator For Functional Safety
exida, the global leader in functional safety certification for the process industries, has certified Emerson Process Management Valve Automation, Inc. TEC2000 with TEC2 Electronics (SIL Option) Electric Actuator for functional safety, ensuring it meets the functional safety requirements for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 3 capability per IEC 61508: 2010. “TEC2000…
Recorded Webinars: Functional Safety Management Planning Part 2: Analysis, Design and Verification Considerations
This is the second in a series of three webinars on Functional Safety Management Planning. Part 2 compares features of some methods for risk assessment, IPL allocation and SIL determination. Contents for the Safety Requirements Specification (SRS) are listed with some frequently overlooked elements highlighted. Requirements for software development and testing are summarized and tips for setting owner expectations are provided. Finally, lifecycle verification requirements are enumerated and an approach to implementation is suggested.
News Item: Emerson and exida Host a Free Alarm Management Best Practices Seminar in the UK
ALARM MANAGEMENT BEST PRACTICES SEMINAR “Getting your Alarm Management / Alarm System Under Control” Emerson Automation Solutions and exida are hosting a FREE Alarm Management Seminar to learn how to apply alarm management best practices to DeltaV alarm systems on Friday 14th July 2017 in Middlesbrough, UK. The seminar will…
Panduit - VeriSafe AVT Absence of Voltage Tester
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Recorded Webinars: Calculating Unit MTTFS with exSILentia
Calculating the spurious trip rate for a single Safety Instrumented Function is rather trivial. However, in many cases one would like to know the frequency of spurious trips of the entire unit. This can be easily calculated within exSILentia. This webinar will review concepts of spurious failures, spurious trip rate vs. mean time to fail spurious as well as how to use exSILentia to obtain an accurate unit spurious trip rate.