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Recorded Webinars: Improve Safety and Reduce False Trips - Configuring the Safety Transmitter Interface
Safety certified transmitters often signal a failure detected by their excellent diagnostics via sending the current output levels to “Out Of Range.” If the safety PLC is correctly configured to interpret these currents, safety can be improved and the false trip rate can be reduced. This webinar will explain how to configure the Safety Transmitter Interface.
DHV Industries Inc. - Series BD and BE
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
DHV Industries Inc. - One-Piece and Two-Piece Series
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
DHV Industries Inc. - Two-Piece, Three-Piece, and Top Entry Series
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Blog Entry: exida Cyber Blog Series 03 - Process Safety and Cybersecurity, Related or Still Distant Cousins?
To be clear, the above title is meant to capture your attention. We all understand and know that it is unusual for a Process Safety engineer and the IT architect to possess detailed knowledge of both safety and security. In today’s world, the operators, engineers, design and support personnel of…
United Electric Controls - 120 Series
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
United Electric Controls - 100 Series
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Rosemount Inc. - 3051S MultiVariable Transmitter
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Blog Entry: Making Use of Leading and Lagging Indicators – Are You Using These for Functional Safety?
Some of you reading this may not be aware or familiar with the terms “leading” and “lagging” indicators, when applied to Functional Safety. The concept isn’t new but does provide significant benefit when applying this to Functional Safety because, if used correctly, these indicators can help significantly improve performance. Let’s…
News Item: Introducing the exSILentia - DeltaV SIS Configurator
As part of our exSILentia Live Event , exida rolled out a brand new plugin for exSILentia. exSILentia , the global safety lifecycle tool, now automatically configures DeltaV SIS! The exSILentia® DeltaV SIS Configurator plug-in takes a conceptual design, configured in the SIL verification tool (SILver), and converts that configuration…
Elektrobit Automotive GmbH - EB tresos® Safety OS 2.x for TriCore TC29xT
IEC 61508, ISO 26262 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
News Item: exida at Valve World Americas Expo 2017
exida will be exhibiting at Valve World Americas Expo 2017 on June 20-21, 2017 in Houston,TX, USA. Stop by booth 1751 and say hello. The Valve World Americas event will cover a variety of valve and valve-related topics that are essential to today’s valve market. There will be plenary presentations…
News Item: exida at Rockwell Automation TechED USA 2017
exida will be presenting and exhibiting at Rockwell Automation TechED USA 2017 on June 11-16, 2017 in Orlando, Florida, USA. Stop by and say hello. The Rockwell Automation TechED (formerly RSTechED) event gives you the industry's only multi-day venue offering unique ways of learning, exploring and discovering techniques for creating…
Recorded Webinars: Demand mode – Which one are you currently running. Is it correct, and does it really matter?
In this webinar, we will examine:
- How low, high and continuous demand rates are defined,
- Examples of each demand mode,
- The effects of the demand mode on your system,
- PFDavg vs PFH calculations and
- How proof testing can influence your demand mode
Blog Entry: exida Cyber Blog Series: 02 - Does your position qualify as a Cyber Sensitive position?
That’s a great question. What is a Cyber sensitive position? A cyber sensitive position is a subset of a job position description that can be graded as Ultra , High , Medium or Low sensitivity with respect to cybersecurity assets and associated potential consequences that may impact an operating company.…
News Item: Video: Safety System Redundancy - Is It Worth the Money?
Here is a clip from exida Academy's IEC 61508 - Introduction to Functional Safety course. William Goble, Ph.D, CFSE gives a background on safety system redundancy and whether it is worth the money.
News Item: Youtube Live: exSILentia the Enterprise Safety Lifecycle Solution
Join exida’s exSILentia team for the first ever exida Live event on Youtube on May 23rd, 2017 @ 10 AM EDT. Iwan van Beurden, exida’s Chief Technology Officer and Director of Product Development will explain how the exSILentia Data Core and Data Stack help companies leverage the process safety management…
News Item: Webinar: The Functional Safety Certification Process - With and Without Modifications
This webinar provides a high level overview on the process of functional safety certification, exploring the differences between a certification that allows modifications to the product and a certification that does not. We cover: Certification Scheme Certification Process Examples IEC 61508 Requirements Safety Case Documentation Example Process Accreditation
Recorded Webinars: The Functional Safety Certification Process - With and Without Modifications
This webinar provides a high level overview on the process of functional safety certification, exploring the differences between a certification that allows modifications to the product and a certification that does not.
We will cover:
• Certification Scheme
• Certification Process
• Examples
• IEC 61508 Requirements
• Safety Case
• Documentation
• Example Process
• Accreditation
Blog Entry: Why Is Functional Safety An Important Piece of Process Safety Management?
It’s interesting to note that with the release of the 2016 edition of IEC61511 , there’s more emphasis being placed on the need for better functional safety management . Having taught many courses on Functional Safety over the past few years, I find that most of the people attending the…