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Blog Entry: The Cuckoo’s Egg & How it Relates to Cybersecurity
Let me be the first to say that I don’t normally do book reviews. Frankly, I thought I left them behind years ago when they were required assignments for my undergraduate classes. Nevertheless, I find myself writing one today, not because I must, but because there are so many cybersecurity…
Recorded Webinars: The Need to Measure SIS Performance
The webinar addresses the value and importance of measuring the performance of Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) because many companies do not seem to understand and/or appreciate the value in conducting these assessments (FSA 4).
The webinar emphasizes the fact that IEC61511 is a performance-based standard and therefore, as such, there is a need to be able to measure SIS performance. This webinar follows on from a previous webinar on the importance of conducting Functional Safety Assessments and the specific requirement from IEC61511 to conduct FSA 4; it focuses on this requirement and the practical benefits that can be gained from performing this assessment.
What you will learn?
- What are the key benefits
- Who should be involved
- The need to identify key Performance Indicators to measure
- Where the KPIs can come from
Who should attend?
- PSM personnel
- Operations and maintenance personnel
- Plant Managers and Supervisors
Blog Entry: Why Data Science Knowledge is Required in Alarm Management
The alarm system is a daily encounter for most operations across different industries. For oil and gas, the alarm system alerts and reminds the operation to take action(s) to revert the process back to the normal operating range. For pharmaceuticals and batch operations, the alarm system can be used to…
News Item: Yokogawa Receives 61508 Functional Safety Certification for TDLS 8000
Congrats to Yokogawa. exida recently issued an IEC 61508 functional safety certification for their TDLS 8000 Tunable Diode Laser Spectrometer. The certificate and assessment report can be found on the exida SAEL here.
Training Course: Cybersecurity Fundamentals for Integrators and Solution Providers
This course introduces fundamental cybersecurity concepts that are important for system integrators and maintenance providers. This course is targeted for those who have little or no cybersecurity experience. This course is expected to be a 2-day course. The following provides more details on the course content: Introduction Importance of Cybersecurity…
NASN Automotive - Functional Safety Management process
ISO 26262 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Recorded Webinars: New Year’s Resolution: Plan for OT Cybersecurity
The New Year is a great time to make resolutions and look to make changes from the previous year, but often as the weeks pass, these resolutions fall to the back burner. For 2023, let’s try to change that when it comes to OT Cybersecurity. In this webinar we will examine common pitfalls that prevent progress on goals in the new year, the specific need for improved OT cybersecurity in industrial control systems (ICS), how to develop and implement a roadmap-based approach, and lastly how to track progress. With these steps anyone can be successful at improving their cybersecurity knowledge this year, whether it is setting a personnel goal for better training, or an organization wide goal for better posture, this webinar can serve as the catalyst to get the New Year moving in the right direction.
Blog Entry: Are You Measuring the Performance of Your SIS?
I’ve been teaching our FSE100 course now for nearly 10 years and it always amazes me that when teaching the course, the number of times I find that end users in the class are not really measuring the performance of their SIS. In most cases, they are doing some measurements…
News Item: Bürkert Werke Receives 61508 Functional Safety Certification for Diaphragm Valves
Congrats to Bürkert Werke. exida recently issued an IEC 61508 functional safety certification for their Type 2030 / 2031 / 2032 / 2033 / AP2030 and Type 2103 / 2104 / 2105 / AP09 Diaphragm valves. The certificate and assessment report can be found on the exida SAEL here.
Teledyne Oldham Simtronics SAS - Laser Gas Detector GD1
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
CAIC - CAIC MOS V1.0
ISO 26262 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Blog Entry: New Year’s Resolution: Plan for OT Cybersecurity
The New Year is a great time to make resolutions, but often as the weeks pass, these resolutions fall to the back burner. A study completed in 2016 showed that less than 25% of those who set a resolution successfully followed that resolution for a year.1 When we think about…
News Item: Crane ChemPharma & Energy Receives 61508 Functional Safety Certification for Butterfly Valve
Congrats to Crane ChemPharma & Energy. exida recently issued an IEC 61508 functional safety certification for their FKX 9000 Triple Offset Valve. The certificate and assessment report can be found on the exida SAEL here.
News Item: Pepperl+Fuchs Receives 61508 Functional Safety Certification from exida
Congrats to Pepperl + Fuchs. exida recently issued an IEC 61508 functional safety certification for their Functional Safety Management System. The certificate and assessment report can be found on the exida SAEL here.
Arm Ltd. - Global Foundries (GF) 130BCD Silicon Foundation Libraries
ISO 26262 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Recorded Webinars: Data Visualization for Alarm Rationalization
The main output of an Alarm Rationalization is the Master Alarm Database: an authorized database with alarm attributes which are reviewed and confirmed by a professional team. After the Rationalization, the next step in the ISA 18.2 lifecycle is to proceed into the Advanced Alarming Designs.
Before proceeding, it is a good idea to take a pause and review the rationalization. Here I would like to employ the methodologies from Data Science.
Data Visualization is a very essential phase in Data Science. It is to provide insights for Data Analysis or even Machine Learning directions.
This is a series of webinars that aims to introduce everyone to Alarm Management based on ISA 18.2/IEC 62682, with the supplement of the fundamentals from Data Science and Data Analytics.
Yokogawa Electric Corporation - Secure Development Life Cycle
ISASecure SDLA in the Security Automation Equipment List
Bürkert Werke GmbH & Co. KG - Diaphragm valves
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Bürkert Werke GmbH & Co. KG - Seated valves
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Bürkert Werke GmbH & Co. KG - Pneumatic controller
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List