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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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IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List

Blog Entry: Do you believe the numbers?

In a couple of recent projects and discussions, I have come across something extremely concerning. Engineers are very good at performing accurate calculations, and the PFDavg and PFH computations for SIL performance verification are improving in precision all the time. Unfortunately, there is often such a focus on the details…

Blog Entry: Two Billion Hours

When I studied Reliability Engineering in graduate school, I was taught that failure rate data came from field failure studies. I assumed that operating companies always kept accurate records when a piece of equipment failed. I also assumed that someone would investigate the failures and assign a root cause. Later,…

News Item: EXIDA ANNOUNCES ADDITION OF CONTROL SYSTEM CYBER SECURITY CERTIFICATION TO S.A.E.L.

exida, a global supplier of functional safety products, services, and certifications has added control system cyber security certification to its Safety Automation Equipment List, the world’s most comprehensive list of safety certified equipment. The new 2010 IEC 61508 safety standard now includes cyber security threat analysis. exida is responding to…

News Item: exida to Present at ISA Automation Week

John Cusimano, exida’s Directory of Security Services, and Iwan van Beurden, exida Director of Engineering, will be presenting at ISA Automation Week , October 17-20, 2011 in Mobile, Alabama. Title: Assessing the Security of Industrial Automation and Control Systems Presenter: John Cusimano, exida, Director of Security Service Description: Threat Modeling…

News Item: exida to Present at 2011 Emerson Global Users Exchange

exida will be presenting at the 2011 Emerson Global User Exchange , to be held October 24-28, 2011 in Nashville, TN. The following exida presentations will be featured: Title: Lessons Learned From Actual Control System Security Incidents and Assessments Presenter: John Cusimano, exida, Director of Security Service When: Wednesday, October…

News Item: exida Launches Certification Section on Their Web Site

exida announces the launch of an in-depth section on their Certification services. The section spotlights exida’s certification of personnel, products, and processes & systems.

Blog Entry: Don’t ignore the operator when searching for root cause

Something was wrong with our washing machine. The wash cycle was longer than normal. The problem seemed intermittent at first, but then it became persistent across all wash cycles. Preliminary investigation revealed the cycle got stuck on spin. Now, I am normally not allowed to operate the washer with real…

News Item: EXIDA ANNOUNCES ADDITION OF KAORU SONODA TO EXIDA JAPAN TEAM

Kaoru Sonoda has joined exida, the worldwide leader in the certification of automation equipment for use in safety instrumented systems, as partner/principal engineer. Sonoda brings more than 30 years of professional experience, most recently serving as Digital Solution Group manager for Yokogawa Electric Corporation. “I am pleased to welcome Mr.…

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