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Moore Industries - SRM Safety Relay Module
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
News Item: exida Featured in July 2012 Issue of Chemical Engineering Progress
Todd Stauffer, exida’s Director of Alarm Management authored an article featured in the July 2012 issue of Chemical Engineering Progress . The article is titled “Implement an Effective Alarm Management Program.” The article discusses how to apply the ISA-18.2 Standard on Alarm Management to design, implement, and maintain an effective…
Blog Entry: Analysis and Realization: Done. Let’s Start Operation… What’s Next?
Congratulations! You’ve completed the Analysis and Realization phases of the Safety Lifecycle , and are about to begin the Operation phase, but what’s next? Well obviously you need to do proof testing , but is there anything else? You may be familiar with the figure below: The functional safety standards…
News Item: exida Asia Pacific hiring Process Safety Consultant
Process Safety Consultant Location: Singapore Description: exida is the global functional safety market leader offering products and services to the Oil & Gas, Petro-Chemical, Power and Automotive industries. To support the exida Asia Pacific team, we are looking for a PROCESS SAFETY CONSULTANT to: Perform Functional Safety Assessments Lead and…
Book: Practical SIL Target Selection - Risk Analysis per the IEC 61511 Safety Lifecycle
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, this project review and audit experience continues to show how easy it is to select bad SIL targets. Incorrect or missing input information, insufficient…
News Item: INDUSTRIAL CONTROL SYSTEMS CYBER SECURITY ASSURANCE WEBINAR RECORDING NOW AVAILABLE
John Cusimano, exida’s Director of Security Services co-presented a webinar hosted by the ISA Security Compliance Institute (ISCI) on June 26, 2012. A recording of the webinar titled “Industrial Control Systems Cyber Security Assurance” can be found here .
Blog Entry: Why should I get my mechanical device certified per IEC 61508?
I was recently approached with a question regarding why it would be necessary to certify mechanical devices, such as valves, per IEC 61508 when it is not clearly stated in the standard that the standard is applicable to such devices. After looking through IEC 61511 and IEC 61508 regarding the…
News Item: EXIDA FEATURED IN INTECH SOUTH AMERICA MAGAZINE EDITION 142
John Cusimano and Monica Hochleitner of exida, and Eric Byres of Tofino Security authored an article titled “SETE PASSOS PARA A SEGURANÇADA INFORMAÇÃO EM ICS” featured in Edition 142 of InTech South America Magazine . Click here to view the full article
GE Digital - RBI-580 Fixed Equipment Criticality Engine
API 580 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
News Item: EXIDA RELEASES SILStat OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE DATA COLLECTION SOFTWARE
exida, a global supplier of functional safety products, services and certifications has released SILStat, software that helps evaluate risk reduction by collecting and analyzing operation and maintenance data. The tool captures key operational and maintenance data, including equipment failures, process demands, success or failure of protection layers and proof test…
News Item: Job Opening for Control System Security Engineer
Location: Anywhere in USA (preferably Mid-Atlantic or Gulf Coast) Description: Exida is seeking a highly-skilled, experienced individual to join our control system security services business. The primary duties of the candidate are: Facilitate control system security risk assessments Organize, lead and facilitate detailed system security vulnerability assessments Assist in the…
Blog Entry: Relating Test Data to Operating Modes & “Proven in Use”
Everyone wants data, and generally everyone agrees high quality proven in use data is the best. Properly designed experimental testing is one means to simulate actual operation. That is what we all learned as far back as high school during our chemistry and physics labs. These tests can be set…
Blog Entry: A False Sense of Security
About 5 years ago I was sitting around a big table in a conference room at a major LNG terminal. Outside the window I could see a big city harbor filled with boats, bridges, sky scrapers and approximately 5 million people. I could also see two huge LNG storage tanks…
IMI Critical Engr PBM - IM Series Double Block and Bleed Valves
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
IMI Critical Engr PBM - TN Series Trunnion Ball Valves
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
IMI Critical Engr PBM - AN Series Floating Ball Valves
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Blog Entry: (Almost) FREE Security Training
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is tasked with many things. One area of focus is Industrial Control Systems (ICS) . The Industrial Control Systems Joint Working Group (ICSJWG) was formed to facilitate this focus. This group holds semi-annual conferences (Spring and Fall) in various US cities. These meetings are…
Blog Entry: DANGER, DANGER, DANGER!
Assumed 10 Demands Per Year During a SIF verification calculation review this week, the engineer pulled out a safety certificate with very low failure rates for a solenoid valve. Certificate No. V139 2009 C4-4 [1] states that a solenoid valve has a dangerous failure rate of 4.57 E-10 failures per…
Blog Entry: “Building Security In”
Cybersecurity continues to be a big problem for the world at large and for control systems specifically. The amount of time and effort that it can take to simply keep all of the security patches up to date on a large control system can be mind boggling. No matter how…
Detector Electronics - GT3000
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
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