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News Item: EXIDA CERTIFIES MOORE INDUSTRIES SSX AND SST MODULES FOR FUNCTIONAL SAFETY
exida, the global leader in functional safety certification for the process industries, has certified Moore Industries’ SSX and SST Safety Series isolator and splitter for functional safety, ensuring that they meet the functional safety requirements for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 2 capability per IEC 61508:2010. “Moore Industries continues their commitment…
Blog Entry: OREDA Data vs. FMEDA Data
A question was posed to me this week about why the OREDA failure rate for a solenoid valve was greater than the Failure Modes, Effects, and Diagnostic Analysis (FMEDA) results from exida for a specific manufacturer’s solenoid valve. The person asking the question was clearly challenging the exida FMEDA results.…
News Item: exida Announces New Cybersecurity Scorecard Program™
The exida Cybersecurity Scorecard Program™ is an independent evaluation of the cybersecurity capabilities and robustness of a product or system. The evaluation criteria is based upon industry standards and specifications such as ISA/IEC 62443 (formerly ISA 99), NERC CIP, NIST 800-82 and WIB. Cybersecurity Scorecard is not pass/fail. Rather, it…
Detector Electronics, LLC - FlexSonic Acoustic Detector including AC100 Sensor and ATX10 Transmitter
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Blog Entry: Alarm Rationalization: Alarm Objective Analysis (AOA)
Todd Stauffer, Director of Alarm Management at exida, takes you through a key part of the Alarm Rationalization process called Alarm Objective Analysis (AOA). You will learn how to determine what alarms you need (and which one’s you don’t), how to eliminate nuisance alarms, and safely reduce the number of…
News Item: EXIDA CERTIFIES DET-TRONICS® FlexSonicTM ACOUSTIC GAS LEAK DETECTOR FOR FUNCTIONAL SAFETY
exida, the global leader in functional safety certification for the process industries, has certified the Det-Tronics FlexSonicTM Acoustic Gas Leak Detector for functional safety, ensuring that they meet the functional safety requirements for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 2 capable per IEC 61508. “Det-Tronics has created practical technology for acoustically detecting…
News Item: New exSILentia V3.1 is Now Available
exida is pleased to announce the release of exSILentia V3.1. The following is an overview of key updates to the software in this release: Addition of the Emerson SIS CHARMS DTT and ETT logic solver including custom Markov models reflecting the advance hybrid architecture of the logic solver Extension of…
Lupatech MNA - Trunnion Mounted Ball Valves
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Blog Entry: A Spring Return Scotch-Yoke Actuator with No Safe Failures! Really?
Look at the picture. What do you see? I see a spring return actuator with a diaphragm chamber a spring chamber the scotch-yoke mechanism What are the high level potential failures for a ball valve? Scotch-yoke mechanism breaks, can no longer operate valve (dangerous) Spring breaks/spring cap breaks, spring will…
NOV Texas Oil Tools - Shear Seal Actuator (SSR)
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Blog Entry: A Ball Valve with Safe Failures! Really?
Look at the photo. What do you see? I see a ball valve with: a valve body a ball a stem that can turn the ball What are the high level potential failures for a ball valve? Stem stuck, can no longer turn (dangerous) Stem break, can no longer turn…
Blog Entry: Are Cybersecurity Servers Making Your ICS Less Cyber Secure?
ICS cybersecurity standards such as ISA 62443 (formerly ISA 99 ) and NERC CIP require operators to have policies and procedures in place to monitor and maintain their critical ICS cyber assets. For anything other than very small systems, the obvious choice is to implement systems to automate these procedures.…
Flowserve Flow Control - Automax SuperNova Pneumatic Rack & Pinion Actuators
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Flowserve Flow Control - Worcester 911 Series Ball Valves
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Flowserve Flow Control - 33/39/F39/40/40R/LRP
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Flowserve Flow Control - Worcester 44/59/459/599 Cryogenic Series Ball Valves
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Book: Seguridad Funcional, Ciberseguridad y Administración de Alarmas
Este libro nace como respuesta al creciente interés en temas relacionados con la Seguridad Funcional, Ciberseguridad y Administración de Alarmas. Los autores han atestiguado esta demanda de información, por parte de los profesionales de la Seguridad Funcional a través de los numerosos cursos y talleres de análisis de riesgo que…
Blog Entry: Cyber Security, Beyond the Internet: An Automation Engineer’s View
The world of automation has changed significantly over the past 30 years. I have fond memories of starting my career by calibrating, adjusting, and tuning pneumatic control loops while working my way through the electronic age right up to the present digital and cyber generation of automation. If you are…
News Item: exida Presenting and Exhibiting at IATEX 2013
exida will be presenting and exhibiting at the Industrial Automation Tech Expo 2013 , which will be held July 24-26, 2013 in Taguig City, Philippines. The presentations will be as follows: Understanding IEC 61511 – The Process Safety Standard IEC 61511 has been developed as a Process Sector implementation of…
News Item: exida Certifies DETCON TP700 GAS DETECTOR For Functional Safety
exida, the global leader in functional safety certification for the process industries, has issued a functional safety certification per IEC 61508 for the Detcon TP 700 Hydrogen Sulfide Gas Detector. “The TP 700 design process met SIL 2 requirements showing a good level of design integrity,” says exida Certification Evaluating…
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