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News Item: exida Asia Pacific Conducts New IEC 61511 Second Edition Updates Course
exida Asia Pacific recently conducted the new 1-day training course titled New IEC 61511 Second Edition Updates on May 6, 2016 in Singapore. “The course was especially effective in identifying the changes with respect to IEC61511 2003 version in O&M, FSA, cyber security etc.” - George Samuel, Amec Foster Wheeler…
Bifold Fluidpower Ltd. - FP50(B) and FP200(B) Directional Control Valves
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
News Item: Schneider Electric Achieves exida Security Development Lifecycle Certification
exida, the global leader in functional safety and cybersecurity certification for the process industries has certified three Schneider Electric product development sites in Foxboro, Mass., Worthing, U.K., and Hyderabad, India, for compliance with the exida Security Development Lifecycle certification based on IEC 62443-4-1 . exida is a globally recognized ISO…
Recorded Webinars: Why Conduct a Functional Safety Assessment (FSA)?
The purpose of Functional Safety Assessments (FSAs) is twofold: to ensure that all the activities and documentation for the particular Safety Lifecycle (SLC) phase have been completed as per requirements; to help prevent systematic failures from being introduced. The IEC61511 2003 version recommends five (5) FSAs be conducted but specifies that at least one (1) be conducted prior to starting up the process – FSA 3, also known as the pre-startup safety check. Most companies only rely on FSA 3 but this means that they are risking a delayed startup if problems and/or errors are found, which can of course be costly.
However, the new edition of IEC61511, to be issued this year, proposes to mandate that ALL five (5) FSAs be conducted. This will have a significant impact on end user practices, whereby they will need to provide documentary evidence that these have been carried out according to requirements. This is especially relevant for the operation and maintenance side, whereby periodic assessment and management of change will require FSAs. The webinar will outline the requirements for each FSA and why, if implemented properly, these can lead to a much more efficient and effective design for Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS). The benefit of which will be to keep costs down and improve availability.
Blog Entry: Are You Ready For What’s Coming?
If you’re like me then you’ve been waiting for the new draft of IEC 61511 to be officially issued since its release has been delayed for some time. However, a draft has been released and can help in preparing end users for what’s to come. The question is “are you…
News Item: exida Among Presenters at Experitec’s Alarm Management Best Practices Forum
Todd Stauffer, exida Director of Alarm Management is among the presenters at the Experitec Alarm Management Best Practices Forum. This forum will be held in both Lenexa, KS and Bartlett, TN. Discussion Topics: Introduction of Alarm Management Principles Alarm System Benchmarking/Performance Assessment Developing an Alarm Philosophy Document Alarm Rationalization Smart…
Recorded Webinars: Field Data Collection Process Validation with Predictive Analytics
The new edition of IEC 61511 has strong language about the need to gather field failure data for each site. The benefits of this activity can be many but it is essential that the process used to gather the data be validated against field failure data benchmarks. This webinar discusses some actual problems discovered with data collections systems and describes a benchmark technique.
Velosi Asset Integrity Ltd. - VAIL-Plant PEMS, PIMSON, PIMSOFF Modules (RBI Function)
API 580, ASME 31.8S:2012 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Blog Entry: What Good is a Safety Manual?
Many products have options and features that are valuable to users. But not all these features should be permitted while the product is performing a safety function. For example, HART communications should not be permitted to write data to a transmitter while it’s performing the safety function. If you are…
News Item: exida Presenting at 2016 #girlSTEM Conference
Loren Stewart, exida Safety Engineer will be presenting at The Fifth Annual #girlSTEM Conference , to be held May 26, 2016 at Delaware Valley University. The presentation is titled Why Be a Princess When You Can Be an Engineer? #girlSTEM seeks to inspire middle-to-high school girls to pursue STEM- related…
News Item: EXIDA ANNOUNCES BUSINESS PARTNERSHIP WITH ARME
exida, a global supplier of functional safety products, services and certifications is pleased to announce a business partnership with Arme, Turkey. “Arme is very glad to partner with exida to improve our functional safety services in Turkey,” says Gizem Ayranci, Arme training representative. “We have been working to develop the…
Recorded Webinars: Validation of Given Failure Rate Data for Process Industry Applications
A given Safety Instrumented Function (SIF) design must be verified to meet the required SIL level by checking systematic capability, architecture constraints and probability of failure on demand. Two of these checks require the failure rate data for each device. Fortunately, many device manufacturers are getting their products certified per IEC 61508 and many of the certificates now have failure rate data. Others supply analysis reports with failure rate data. All such data must be checked to make certain it is applicable for the process industries as some data has been derived based on machine safety or automotive applications.
This webinar will show some examples of manufacturer provided failure rate data and a methodology created to validate device type failure rate data for the process industries.
Neles India Pvt. Ltd - Trunnion Mounted Ball Valve
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Neles India Pvt. Ltd - Floating Ball Valves
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
News Item: exida-Sponsored Robotics Team Competes in World Championship
exida is thrilled to have been a sponsor for The Gearaffes , a competitive robotics team that recently competed in the World Championship held April 26 - May 1, 2016 in St. Louis, Missouri. The mission of the Gearaffes is to give middle school and high school students an opportunity…
Magnetrol International, Inc. - Eclipse 706GWR Level Transmitter
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
News Item: exida Presenting at International Applied Reliability Symposium
Dr. William Goble, exida managing director will be presenting at the 2016 ARS North America , which will be held June 21-23, 2016 in San Diego, CA, USA. The presentation is titled “Functional Safety Analysis of Safety Instrumented Functions with Automatic Self-Diagnostic Capabilities.” Many industries, such as power, transportation, manufacturing,…
Recorded Webinars: IEC 61508: SIL Certification Expectations
Due to the rapid growth of IEC 61508 Safety Integrity Level (SIL) Certification, many companies who haven’t achieved certification are now trying to catch up and understand what is involved. Manufacturers are now stuck with many questions and are searching for answers. How much time will it take? How much will it cost? How many man hours will be consumed to achieve certification? What are the benefits?
Questions like these and many more will be addressed in this webinar.
Blog Entry: New Version of ISA-18.2 Alarm Management Standard Is Released (2016)
The new and updated version of the ISA-18.2 standard (ANSI/ISA-18.2-2016, Management of Alarm Systems for the Process Industries) has now been officially released. This supersedes the original edition (2009). The new version incorporates feedback from 6+ years in the “field” and includes some updates based on the IEC 62682 international…
Blog Entry: PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT: Safety Equipment Reliability Handbook, 4th edition
Each month at exida, we strive to spotlight one of our products that makes the job easier for today's industry professional. In this blog, I wanted to talk about our latest edtion of the SERH (Safety Equipment Realiability Handbook) . The SERH provides a collection of failure rate data that…