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News Item: exida Launches Self-Paced Machine Functional Safety Engineering Course
Sellersville, PA: The global leader in functional safety engineering services and certification, exida, has launched the self-paced training course FSE 110 - Machine Functional Safety Engineering . IEC61508 is the foundation for many industries, including Machine Safety. Today, ISO13849 and IEC62061 are 2 main distinctive standards used as the building…
Blog Entry: Machinery Accidents - Today’s Harsh Reality
During 2017, there were over 36,000 injuries related to machinery in the United States. There were 6200 non-fatal amputations, nearly 60% involving machinery. There were close to 3000 fatalities in 2019. Machine accidents are often overlooked because there aren't multiple fatality explosions or major news events like you see with…
Dixon Bayco Division - FloTech Liquid Level Sensors
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Emerson Process Management - DVC6200 High cv
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Shanghai Envision Digital - Secure Product Development Lifecycle
ISASecure in the Security Automation Equipment List
Univers - Secure Product Development Lifecycle
ISASecure in the Security Automation Equipment List
FieldComm Group - SafeHART
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Recorded Webinars: Safety Lifecycle Overview with exSILentia Part 1: Analysis Phase
The Functional Safety Lifecycle as defined by IEC 61511 provides a method to analyze a process then design and implement a safety instrumented system to protect again high risk hazard scenarios. To perform each task effectively requires a good understanding of any analysis or design done beforehand. This webinar focuses on a simple, practical example starting with definition of risk criteria, Process Hazard Analysis (PHA), Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA), SIL selection and documenting the Safety Requirement Specification (SRS) using the exSILentia Safety Lifecycle Suite.
News Item: INEOS Receives 61511 Certification for Functional Safety Management System
Congrats to INEOS. exida recently issued an IEC 61511 functional safety certification for their Functional Safety Management System. The certificate and assessment report can be found on the exida SAEL here .
Blog Entry: IEC 61508 – Two Key Fundamental Concepts
We want our system to work. We're going to do everything we can to make it work properly. If it doesn't work, we want it to fail in a predictable and hopefully safe manner. If the failure modes are predictable, we can design the equipment to be fail safe. That's…
Lear European Holding, S.L. - Thermal Comfort Systems - ISO/SAE 21434 CSMS
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News Item: RG Group Receives 61508 Functional Safety Certification for HPU and Cylinder Systems
Congrats to RG Group. exida recently issued an IEC 61508 functional safety certification for their HPU and Cylinder Systems. The certificate and assessment report can be found on the exida SAEL here .
Blog Entry: Creating a Cyber Hygiene Plan
One of the things that automation companies are beginning to do is to plan for cyber hygiene. More and more companies are implementing automation specific awareness training for their employees. They conduct periodic exercises which like sending phishing emails to see who if you respond. They might leave USB devices…
Recorded Webinars: Using exSILentia Cyber for Cybersecurity Risk Assessments
A risk-based approach is key for effectively managing cybersecurity for Industrial Control Systems (ICS). It helps to identify critical areas requiring mitigation and focus limited resources on the most critical issues. The ISA/IEC 62443-3-2 standard provides the formal process for conducting these risk assessments in a two-staged approach (initial and detailed). Over the years as exida completed many cybersecurity risk assessments, it became clear that a tool which could efficiently record and export the results of the study was critical to the successful completion of the assessments. To meet this need, the exSILentia Cyber tool was developed as a new set of modules on the exSILentia v4 platform. In this webinar we will demonstrate how the exSILentia cyber tool can be used to improve the effectiveness of the cybersecurity risk assessment process and streamline the reporting process.
Blog Entry: Automation Cybersecurity - Myths vs. Reality
In today’s automation systems environment, certain myths continue to persist. For example, “cyber attacks are only a concern for big companies”. Although it may be less likely to be targeted by, say, a nation state attack, we’ve seen that malware can cause a shutdown of a system or trigger a…
News Item: exida Authored Article Appears in AiCHE Process Safety Progress Publication
How extreme failure-data filtering leads to poor process safety This paper describes both appropriate and inappropriate practices of filtering field failure data (FFD) prior to using the resulting failure count from the failure data to estimate failure rates. The underlying causes of inappropriate (extreme) filtering of FFD are examined, and…
Ghatge Patil Inds. - Expanding Gate Valve
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Ghatge Patil Inds. - Slab Gate Valve
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Blog Entry: Why is Cybersecurity Hygiene Important for Automation Systems?
Cybersecurity incidents have shown that there can be major consequences for automation systems. There have been incidences where attackers have been able to manipulate the human resource interface console directly. It was only by chance that an operator in one particular instance happened to notice that his mouse pointer was…