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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…
Recorded Webinars: Field Data Validation with Predictive Analytics Webinar
Upper and lower reasonability bounds for instrument failure rates can be established using a large set of FMEDA analysis results. These numbers can be used as a benchmark to help validate any failure data collection process. For any set of collected field failure data for a device, a λ of the device is calculated and compared to the benchmark. It is not uncommon for the benchmark λ and estimated λ to differ considerably. Predictive Analytics (PA) is a procedure for exploring these differences and assessing the accuracy of the estimated device λ with respect to the benchmark λ of the device. The PA process often results in improved data collection methods and more accurate field failure data.
This web seminar describes the PA method and the procedures used to validate field failure data collection processes.
News Item: exida Academy US & Germany Dates Announced
It’s a new year and exida is excited to present the US & Germany dates for the exida Academy. Functional Safety I & II The course sequence of Functional Safety Engineering I & II is designed as a broad review in preparation for the Certified Functional Safety Expert (CFSE) and…
News Item: exida Presenting at RAMS 2015
exida will be presenting and exhibiting at RAMS 2015 , The Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium January 26-29, 2015 in Palm Harbor, FL. Dr. William Goble, exida Principal Partner will be presenting a tutorial titled “ Overview of Functional Safety Concepts & the IEC 61508 Standard ” on Tuesday, January…
News Item: Field Data Validation with Predictive Analytics Webinar
exida Webinars are back for 2015! This Wednesday (Jan 14) Dr. William Goble talks about Field Data Validation with Predictive Analytics. Upper and lower reasonability bounds for instrument failure rates can be established using a large set of FMEDA analysis results. These numbers can be used as a benchmark to…
DeZURIK - Double Block & Bleed Knife Gate Valve
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Flowserve NAF - ShearStream SB
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
News Item: exida’s Hal Thomas Receives ISA Standards and Practices Department Award
Hal Thomas, exida Partner has been awarded the ISA Standards and Practices Award for his outstanding leadership and technical expertise as ISA84 Working Group 9 chairman in the development of ISA-TR84.00.09-2013, Security Countermeasures Related to SIS. Mr. Thomas has over 36 years of professional experience. He is widely recognized as…
Blog Entry: Seat-of-your-pants Software?
I’ve had software development folks tell me that the “just do it” approach is a valid lifecycle model for SW development. In their context, this means writing the code based on limited marketing and design information and then backfilling the requirements and design specifications to describe what was done. They…
News Item: exida Presenting at Rockwell Automation Process Solutions User Group
Todd Stauffer, exida Director of Alarm Management will be co-presenting at The Rockwell Automation Process Solutions User Group (PSUG) to be held November 17-18, 2014 in Anaheim, CA. The presentation is titled “Alarm Management: Monitoring, Assessment, and Bad Actor Resolution.” Learn more about the presentation below: TS16: Alarm Management: Monitoring,…
Recorded Webinars: Functional Safety 101: The IEC Functional Safety Standards
This webinar will feature an overview of the IEC functional safety standards and who should be using them. Specific topics include:
Adoption of IEC 61508 and IEC 61511
Functional safety standards
Safety Lifecycle
Keys documentation
Information that is supplied to end users
What are Customers Doing?
Critical Issues
Importance of Data Integrity
Product Certification
Roles and Responsibilities