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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…
News Item: exida Interviewed in Control Magazine Article
exida's Director of Business Development, Steve Gandy, was interviewed in the latest issue of Control Magazine. The artlcle, entitled Process safety delayed , describes how some users and experts feel process safety is largely paralyzed, while others feel it is progressing.
Blog Entry: exida Cyber Blog Series: 01 - What is Cyber Hygiene?
exida would like to welcome our new director of cybersecurity services Dave Gunter . Dave will be taking us through a multi part blog series based on general cybersecurity evolving into how it pertains to your industrial work environment and what you should do to protect your company and its…
News Item: Webinar Recording: From Failure Rates to SIL – PFDavg Plays its Part
This webinar provides a high level overview on how the probability of dangerous failures affects everything from failure rates to safety integrity levels. We cover: Probability of Failure Unreliability / Reliability Repairable Systems Probability of Mode Failure Mission Time Impact of Proof Testing Proof Test Coverage Automatic Diagnostics Valid Test…
Recorded Webinars: From Failure Rates to SIL – PFDavg Plays its Part
This webinar will provide a high level overview on how the probability of dangerous failures affects everything from failure rates to safety integrity levels. We cover:
• Probability of Failure
• Unreliability / Reliability
• Repairable Systems
• Probability of Mode Failure
• Mission Time
• Impact of Proof Testing
• Proof Test Coverage
• Automatic Diagnostics
• Valid Test Intervals – Continuous/High and Low Demand
News Item: exida Announces Business Partnership with Champion Technology
exida, a global supplier of functional safety products, services and certifications is pleased to announce a business partnership with Champion Technology . “Champion is very excited to partner with exida, a recognized world leader in Functional Safety and Alarm Management solutions for the process industry,” says Mehrdad Ghorashi, President for…
News Item: Maximizing the Reliability of Operator Response to Alarms Webinar
The webinar entitled Maximizing the Reliability of Operator Response to Alarms has been posted to Youtube. “Closing the Holes in the Swiss Cheese Model” Layers of protection for abnormal event management can be modeled as slices of swiss cheese according to James Reason. An operator’s response to an alarm is…
Recorded Webinars: Maximizing the Reliability of Operator Response to Alarms
“Closing the Holes in the Swiss Cheese Model”
Layers of protection for abnormal event management can be modeled as slices of swiss cheese according to James Reason. An operator’s response to an alarm is one of the first layers of protection to prevent a hazard from escalating to an incident. This presentation discusses a two-part approach to maximizing the operator’s reliability when responding to abnormal situations (“closing the holes in the swiss cheese layer”).
The first part focuses on following the best practices in the alarm management standards ANSI/ISA-18.2-2016 and IEC 62682. Examples include alarm rationalization to ensure all alarms are meaningful and to capture “tribal knowledge”, prioritization to help operators determine which alarms are most critical, alarm classification, monitoring of alarm system performance metrics, and creation of alarm response procedures. The second part addresses the impact of human factors on operator performance; including how nuisance alarms and alarm floods can lead to errant mental models, attention tunneling, misplaced salience and overall loss of situation awareness. We will also discuss how often “operator error” is really the underlying cause of alarm management incidents.
News Item: Complimentary exSILentia® Express Class in Mexico City
exida invites you to attend a complimentary overview training on the exSILentia® Safety Lifecycle tool in Mexico City on Friday, June 9, 2017. Attendees will learn how to perform Safety Integrity Level (SIL) Selection and Verification using exSILentia®. This will help users determine the required risk reduction for each hazard…
Recorded Webinars: Functional Safety Management Planning Part 1: Setting the Structure
This is the first in a series of three webinars on Functional Safety Management Planning. Part 1 will discuss some of the issues experienced when implementing a functional safety management project without proper planning, review the requirements for a plan, and suggest one approach for plan development. This session will focus on the contents of the policy level master plan document and identification of procedures, work instructions, forms and records that comprise the Functional Safety Management Plan.
Recorded Webinars: Conducting Effective Hazard and Risk Assessments for Machine Applications
Machine Safety Webinar Series (Part 1)
This webinar will review hazard analysis, risk assessment, and safety requirements specification activities. We will look at the guidance in both IEC 62061 and ISO 13849, as well as industry practice to gain a broad understanding of techniques that are currently in use. Qualitative, semi-quantitative, and quantitative techniques for evaluating risk will be explained and demonstrated through examples. The information needed for an effective safety requirements specification will also be reviewed and documented.
A-T Controls Inc. - TS2/TS3/TSW Trunnion Ball Valves
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Mars Valve Co., Ltd. - Series 30M
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List