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News Item: exida Presenting at ISA Wilmington Section February Meeting
Steve Gandy , exida VP Global Business Development will be presenting at the ISA Wilmington Section February 2015 meeting. The presentation is titled IEC 61511: Operation and Maintenance Requirements, and will take place on Tuesday, February 24, 2015 beginning at 5:30pm. IEC 61511: Operation and Maintenance Requirements It is hard…
News Item: exida Presenting and Exhibiting at the VMA 2015 Technical Seminar and Exhibits
Chris O’Brien, exida Executive VP, will be presenting at the Valve Manufacturers Association of America (VMA) 2015 Technical Seminar & Exhibits . This event will be held March 5-6, 2015 in San Antonio, TX. The presentation is titled “Improving Reliability by Combining Focused Field Studies and Advanced Modeling.” The performance…
Blog Entry: Help Your Operators Defeat the Situation Awareness Demons!
Contrary to what you might have guessed, the “Defeat of the Situation Awareness Demons” is not a new video game on XBOX or Playstation. It is a set of eight (8) factors which undermine effective Situation Awareness. It can be applied to operators in process plants to characterize human error…
Detector Electronics, LLC - DSM MOS H2S Gas Detector
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Flexim GmbH - Ultrasonic Flowmeters
IEC 61508, ISASecure in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Recorded Webinars: Best Practices in Achieving Functional Safety in Turbine Applications
The adoption of the functional safety standards continues to gain momentum in turbine applications. Both industrial and power turbine sites are now requiring compliance to IEC 61511. This webinar will review both technical requirements and market trends related to functional safety and turbines. Technical topics will include best practices related to the functional safety process and a review of safety system design. Market trends will cover which standards are required by region, turbine size, and industry.
News Item: New Whitepaper: When Good Alarms Go Bad: Learnings from Incidents
New whitepaper co-authored by exida’s director of Alarm Services Todd Stauffer! Some of the significant process industries incidents occurred by overflowing vessels, including BP Texas City and Buncefield. In many overflow incidents, alarms were designed to signal the need for operator intervention. These alarms may have been identified as safeguards…
White Paper: Make some Alarming Moves
Tackle distractions that impair operator performance and process efficiency.
White Paper: Implement an Effective Alarm Management Program
Apply the ISA-18.2 Standard on Alarm Management to design, implement, and maintain an effective alarm system.
White Paper: When Good Alarms Go Bad: Learnings from Incidents
Some of the significant process industries incidents occurred by overflowing vessels, including BP Texas City and Buncefield. In many overflow incidents, alarms were designed to signal the need for operator intervention. These alarms may have been identified as safeguards or layers of protection, but they did not succeed in preventing…
Blog Entry: CFSE/CFSP: Why and How to Become One
As an engineer responsible for critical industrial processes, we face a variety of challenges: coping with new and changing standards increased pressures for process uptime and plant safety a growing list of responsibilities decreased availability of support personnel This makes it difficult to develop, maintain, and document the expertise needed…
News Item: Dr. William Goble receives ALAN O. PLAIT AWARD
exida’s principal partner Dr. William Goble, CFSE along with Dr. Julia V. Bukowski received the 2015 ALAN O. PLAIT AWARD for TUTORIAL EXCELLENCE at the Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS) held in Palm Harbor, FL, January 26-29, 2015. This award is named for Alan O. Plait who instituted and took…
Rosemount Inc. - 3051S Electronic Remote Sensors (ERS) System
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
News Item: WEBINAR: CFSE/CFSP: Why and How to Become One
This webinar to be held on 28 January 2015 will briefly share with you the importance of becoming a CFSE or CFSP and also will walk you through the process on how to become one! As an engineer responsible for critical industrial processes, you face a myriad of challenges: coping…
Blog Entry: The exida FMEDA Process - Accurate Failure Data for the Process Industries
In this blog, I will talk about the FMEDA method and how it can generate realistically accurate failure rate data. The first question we have to ask is “why do you need failure rate data ?” One of the fundamental concepts in today’s functional safety standard, IEC 61508 and it’s…
Texas Instruments - TDA2X ADAS SoC
ISO 26262 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Oil States Piper Valves - PB Series Ball Valves
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Blog Entry: Field Data Validation with Predictive Analytics
Who cares about field failure data? Why are we even here? IEC 61511 – Fundamental Concepts The fundamental concepts from our functional safety standards are the probabilistic performance based design. Many of you know that this was terribly controversial when this was first proposed. Even to this day, there are…
News Item: WEBINAR: Decoding the exida Certificate
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…
News Item: REDUCE RISK: Learn More About Functional Safety Certification Webinar
Compliance to functional safety standards is rapidly becoming a requirement for automotive, transportation, industrial and medical applications. Join TI and Exida on Wednesday, Feb. 4th at 10 a.m. to gain valuable knowledge about reducing risk and speeding time to functional safety certification. Senior-level experts will talk through functional safety development…