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Blog Entry: 7 Ways to Keep your Auditor Happy
1. Name your files to make auditing easier; a filename with cryptic job numbers and abbreviations that are used within the company may not be easily understood or cataloged by an auditor 2. Give the auditor the ‘secret decoder ring’ for cryptic company acronyms and abbreviations 3. Have clear references…
News Item: New whitepaper: The 7 Steps to ICS and SCADA Security
The 7 Steps to ICS and SCADA Security The past two years have been a real wakeup call for the industrial automation industry. For the first time ever it has been the target of sophisticated cyber attacks like Stuxnet, Night Dragon and Duqu. In addition, an unprecedented number of security…
Blog Entry: Babies, Bathwater, and Australian Safety Laws
The old saying goes, “Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.” But it looks like a number of people in Australia may be in danger of doing just that with their response to the country’s newly harmonized health and safety laws. Australia’s new Work Health and Safety Act says…
Blog Entry: Outrage! Panic! Indifference?
How should you react to news of PLC security vulnerabilities? Project Basecamp was an exercise conducted at the S4 Security Conference that was held last month in Miami, Florida. At the event, six security researchers reported their findings on the security vulnerabilities found after testing several PLCs and field devices…
News Item: exida Job Opening - Consulting Engineer for Gulf Coast Region
Location: U.S. Gulf Coast region Description: Exida is seeking a highly-skilled, experienced individual to provide consulting services in process safety, alarm management, and cyber security to end users in the petro-chemical, chemical, and power industries. The potential roles & responsibilities of the candidate include: Lead / facilitate HAZOPs and LOPAs…
News Item: exida Announces Spring Training Series
Batter Up…Spring Training is upon us! This upcoming March-June, exida will be conducting trainings across the United States. Stops include Lansdale, PA in March, Baton Rouge, Louisiana in April, Houston, Texas in May, and Anaheim, California in June. Six different courses, led by exida industry experts, will be offered over…
News Item: exida Job Opening - Gulf Coast Regional Business Development Manager
Gulf Coast Regional Business Development Manager Location: U.S. Gulf Coast region Description: Exida is seeking a highly-skilled, experienced individual to lead our business development activities in the U.S. Gulf Coast region. The primary duties of the candidate are: Promotion of exida’s entire portfolio of products and services within the Gulf…
Blog Entry: Why am I not on “the list?”
Many will agree that exida’s Safety Equipment Reliability Handbook (SERH) and the Safety Automation Equipment List (SAEL) are very useful tools for choosing products to use in safety instrumented systems . The SAEL shows a product’s IEC 61508 and cyber security compliance information. In addition, the SERH has a full…
Blog Entry: 2011…A Year in Review
2011 was a good year in many ways for Functional Safety and Cyber Security . Several instrumentation products achieved IEC 61508 certification . exida Certification alone issued 64 product certifications ( http://www.sael-onine.com ). With most certification projects, improvements to the design and quality are made. Some manufacturers are now quite…
Flowserve - Spring Cylinder Rotary Actuator
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Flowserve - ShearStream HP Valve
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Flowserve - Valdisk
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Blog Entry: Make a list…and be sure to check it twice
Let me start by wishing everybody a Happy Holidays and Love, Health, Peace, and Safety for 2012. My 5-year old son is very excited about all the holiday decorations. As we celebrate Christmas in my family, we emphasize the birth of baby Jesus as the reason for Christmas, but, like…
Blog Entry: It Ought to be a Crime
There is no shortage of drivers who try to “beat the red light,” or roll through a stop sign. I see it every day (luckily BEFORE they hit my side door). Even though everyone knows, or should know the “rules of the road,” there are some folks who are in…
News Item: EXIDA CERTIFIES VELAN TORQSEAL™ VALVE FOR FUNCTIONAL SAFETY
exida, an accredited global certification company, has certified the Velan Torqseal™ triple-offset butterfly valve for functional safety. The certification ensures that the valve meets the functional safety requirements for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 3 capable per IEC 61508. “A Failure Modes, Effects and Diagnostic Analysis (FMEDA) was performed on the…
News Item: DeltaV Alarm Management Solutions: Following the Alarm Management Lifecycle Webinar Recording
Title: “DeltaV Alarm Management Solutions: Following the Alarm Management Lifecycle” Description: This webinar presents how to create an alarm management continuous improvement program for Emerson DeltaV System Owners that follows the ISA-18.2 alarm management lifecycle. Tools will be demonstrated to analyze alarm system performance and pinpoint poorly performing alarms (DeltaV…
Blog Entry: NEVER Use B10 Values for PFDavg Calculations
The machine safety community has defined a number called the “B10 number.” It is a measure of time where 10% of a population of devices should have failed. Generally it is a measure of expected end of life or “useful life” as defined by the reliability engineering community. The IEC/ISO…
Blog Entry: Field Failure Rate: 10 FITS or 1000 FITS?
After analyzing field failure data from hundreds of data sets from dozens of sources, it is becoming easy to see why results from different studies may vary by an order of magnitude or more. The data collection process itself varies by an order of magnitude or more! A few questions…
News Item: exida presenting at Public Safety Canada’s Annual Control Systems Security Workshop
John Cusimano, exida Director of Security Services, will be presenting at a Control Systems Security Workshop, hosted by Public Safety Canada and Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The workshop will be held November 22-23, 2011 in St. Johns, Newfoundland. Please see below for more information regarding the presentation. Title: “Evaluating the…
News Item: exida Announces Webinar Wednesdays
There’s No Better Way, To Spend Your Wednesday! There’s no better way to celebrate Wednesday! Two Wednesdays per month, from November thru January, exida will be presenting webinars on a variety of hot industry topics. Although not necessary to attend all six, we sure would like to see you at…
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