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White Paper: Tips for Starting an Alarm Management Program
Using the ISA-18.2 standard can help process engineers understand, simplify, and implement a sustainable alarm management program. Congratulations. You’ve been assigned the task of establishing an alarm management program for your facility. So where and how do you begin? This article presents four practical tips for starting an effective and…
News Item: “Tips for Starting an Alarm Management Program” featured in Applied Automation
Todd Stauffer, exida’s Director of Alarm Management has co-authored an article titled “Tips for Starting an Alarm Management Program.” This article has been featured in Applied Automation, a supplement to Control Engineering magazine . A brief introduction to the article can be found below: Congratulations! You’ve been assigned the task…
Blog Entry: Root Cause Analysis
Root Cause Analysis - finding out what happens when a failure occurs, and why it happened in the first place. There are many reasons for root cause analysis. The “system” design can be improved to prevent some of the failures from happening again and those who troubleshoot can do so…
News Item: ISA-18.2 Approves Technical Report 3 on Basic Alarm Design
The ISA-18.2 committee recently voted to approve ISA-TR18.2.3 Basic Alarm Design. This technical report is designed to provide guidance, rationale, and examples on the Basic Alarm Design process as described in ISA-18.2, Clause 10. It covers the selection of alarm attributes, including types, deadbands, and delay times. “Publication of this…
News Item: COUNTERFEIT EXIDA SAFETY CERTIFICATIONS HAVE ONCE AGAIN BEEN DISCOVERED
exida, an accredited global Certification Body, has discovered a counterfeit certificate falsely claiming that a product meets the functional safety requirements for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 3 capable per IEC 61508. The exida “open certification” scheme goes beyond other programs, including the maintenance of an online certification database, which allows…
Blog Entry: Certificate Forgery!
exida has discovered yet another forged functional safety certificate. You can read about another occurrence in a previous blog entry . The company name on the forged certificate is ISP SA DE CV, Cunduacan, Tab., Mex. How could someone think this would not be checked? exida maintains a list of…
Blog Entry: Which Edition of IEC 61508 is Relevant to Me?
Simply stated, the 2nd edition of IEC 61508 is the relevant standard for newly developed products and new certifications. This represents the current best practices on functional safety techniques and measures, and is what the marketplace expects for today’s products. Renewed certifications can use the 1st edition of IEC 61508…
Ashcroft - A-Series
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Blog Entry: Setting the Pace
Going back in time to the turn of the century (remember 2000?), the amount and quality of failure data threatened to doom the whole probabilistic analysis approach. I recall a letter in IEEE Spectrum magazine from Patrick D. O’Conner, a well known reliability engineering author, who expressed the opinion that…
Flowserve - AUTOMAX RG Series Actuator
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
News Item: exida Welcomes Jim Jenkins and Mark Lusignea to the exida Team
Jim Jenkins joins exida as a Senior Safety Engineer. Mr. Jenkins brings with him 26 years of Instrumentation and Process Control experience as an end user. He has filled the role of Instrument Reliability Engineer for the last 7 years with responsibility for Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS), Burner Management Systems…
Blog Entry: How Do You Certify to IEC 61508?
As you may already know, when it comes to the certification of equipment according to IEC 61508, there are several 3rd party agencies from which to choose. It is obvious from reviewing different assessments on for example a solenoid, that the interpretation of IEC 61508 and thereby the assessment method,…
Blog Entry: Practice Makes Perfect…Almost
How often do Managers see training budgets being cut, or personnel becoming blasé about training in general? Isn’t it the norm that annual performance reviews involve reviewing training requirements? Realistically, how often do these training requirements get ignored and/or forgotten about during the year? The answer, I’m afraid, is all…
Blog Entry: PHA: A must or a MUST?
Our thoughts and prayers are with those whose lives were lost, and those injured, as well as their families in last week’s fertilizer plant explosion in West Texas. A few statements made in the press were a bit surprising and I wanted to share those with you. Before I begin,…
News Item: exida Co-Presenting Workshop at 2013 APTA Rail Conference in Philadelphia, PA
Leigh Weber, exida’s Senior Security Engineer will be co-presenting a workshop with Dave Teumim of Teumim Technical at the American Public Transportation Association’s 2013 Rail Conference , which will be held June 2-5, 2013 at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown in Philadelphia, PA. More information regarding the workshop can be found…
Blog Entry: Setting up for FAILURE
Last week I was part of a conversation that made me really question why people (companies) would set themselves up for failure. Is it lack of knowledge? Lack of communication? Or maybe they are simply NEW to the process and don’t know what to expect. But then I thought about…
News Item: exida Industry Experts to Instruct Select ISA Trainings in 2013
John Cusimano, exida’s Director of Security Services, and Leigh Weber, exida’s Senior Cybersecurity Engineer will be instructing various ISA trainings throughout 2013 on the topic of Control System Cybersecurity. More information regarding the topic, dates, and locations can be found below: Using the ANSI/ISA99 Standard to Secure Your Control System…
News Item: The exida Certification Process - FREE Webinar
exida is the world’s leading functional safety Certification Body for the process industries. The criteria used in the exida “scheme” goes beyond the requirements of IEC 61508 to include important results needed by owner-operators and system designers such as cybersecurity, practical proof testing, system design information, and practical false trip…
Blog Entry: The Human Element of Functional Safety (The Challenge)
The analysis of past safety accidents was conducted primarily regionally, and with companies having an “experienced” workforce. Today the global economy is undergoing major shifts in manufacturing which is making the issue of finding, developing, and retaining experienced people more challenging than in the past. In “Brownfield” (developed) areas, like…
News Item: One-Day Upstream Oil & Gas Training to be held in Houston
exida has announced a new one-day training titled “Safety Standards for Upstream Oil & Gas - Application of IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 in Upstream Oil & Gas” to be held Tuesday, May 21, 2013 in Houston, TX. The training will be held at Texas A&M Mays Business School at…
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