IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
So you downloaded a product certificate from the exida website and you are trying to understand the information documented in the certificate. Also, you likely want to know what stands behind the certificate and what was involved in the certification of the product. I’m not going to spend time talking…
exida is conducting a survey on the use of alarms as safeguards and layers of protection. The goal of this survey is to benchmark the current alarm management practices used in industry for these types of safety-critical alarms. Poor management of such alarms can result in near-misses or can contribute…
If you were going to build a bridge, you would want to make sure that it did not fall down if there were too many cars on the bridge. One way that this is accomplished is to overdesign. If the bridge is expected to hold at most 20,000 pounds, it…
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
IEC 61508, EN 50128, ISO 26262 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Software Engineer - Developer Location: Sellersville, PA, USA Description: exida is the market leader in Safety Lifecycle engineering software. Our success has allowed us to extend our product offerings significantly. With growth comes great opportunity, we are adding a new development position to our team, and are seeking a talented…
exida’s Mario Gutierrez de la Medina will be presenting at Meridium’s Procesos de Trabajo Meridium APM in Mexico City, Mexico, which will be held September 25-26, 2012.
In today’s modern society there is an increasing demand for “safer” products/systems, which have to meet increasingly demanding standards. The management of “risk” is a major factor in ensuring that a product/system can meet its design objectives, as well as satisfying the required standards and, even more importantly, meeting the…
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
I am working on a SIL verification project and just had to share some observations. For this project, the customer decided to choose a logic solver for which no data is listed in the exida Safety Equipment Reliability Handbook (SERH) . One could ask: Why? Well the simple answer is…
Dr. William Goble, CFSE, exida Principal Partner authored an article featured in the August 2012 issue of Control Engineering magazine . The article is titled “Evaluating a Process Safety System.” Maybe your company bought a legacy facility, or you have moved to a different plant, but you have to determine…
exida’s latest publication Practical SIL Target Selection - Risk Analysis per the IEC 61511 Safety Lifecycle is now available on the Amazon.com Kindle Store! This book has evolved over a number of years from a series of courses, seminars and safety engineering projects exida has completed throughout the world. Unfortunately,…
Location: Gulf Coast Region preferably Houston Description: CFSE or CFSP certified Understand the functional safety lifecycle and implementation of IEC 16508 and IEC 61511 Ability to conduct SIL verification and/or SIF, SRS implementation Experience with using safety PLCs and/or SCADA or DCS systems Experience with PHA, HAZOP, LOPA techniques Oil…
Olympic athletes don’t wake up one day and decide to compete in the Olympics. They don’t arrive at the games by chance or coincidence. Their journey starts long before the games begin. They are often influenced and inspired by watching others or by their own interests. They may begin by…
exida, an accredited global certification company, has certified PBM Valve, Inc.’s AN, TN, and IM ball valves for functional safety. The certification ensures that the valves meet the functional safety requirements for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 3 capable per IEC 61508. “PBM provides flow control solutions that meet our customers’…
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Join exida this August for two virtual training classes: “7 Steps to Industrial Control System Security” and “Overview of IEC 61511 and How it Applies to End-Users.” From your office, or your home, exida virtual classroom provides the same informative and rewarding experience as a traditional in-person training, while being…
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