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Hepburn Engineering - Hepburn Hoist SIS
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Recorded Webinars: Safety Instrumented Function Verification – Essential Engineering Duties
Functional Safety standards have established an ingenious, systematic method for management of risk. This method establishes performance targets based on risk reduction need. Safety function designers must meet those targets based on justification and quantitative analysis. There are a few essential tasks that must be done in this effort. This webinar explains those tasks and the knowledge needed by those engineers who do this work.
News Item: NEO Monitors Receives SIL 2 Certification Through exida
Sellersville, PA: The global leader in functional safety, cybersecurity, and alarm management for the process industries, exida, has presented NEO Monitors with a Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 2 certification for their LaserGas™ III Gas Monitor. Designed for gas concentration monitoring applications with a special focus on SIL-applications and Ex-d, the…
Blog Entry: Strong Safety Culture Translates to Lower Insurance Premiums
Insurance Companies are hedging their bets through premiums while the Manufacturing Industry is placing their wagers on luck. The worlds of gambling and insurance are similar in many ways. Both are built upon elements of probability, modeling and quantification of risk. Professional gamblers are well informed on the odds of…
NEO Monitors AS - LaserGas III Gas Monitor
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
News Item: exida Announces Business Partnership with Sensia
exida, a global supplier of functional safety products, services, and certifications, is pleased to announce a new business partnership with Sensia , the first fully integrated digital oilfield automation solutions provider. The new partnership will enable Sensia to expand its current process safety lifecycle services in terms of scope of…
News Item: New Case Study: Cybersecurity Gap Analysis and High-Level Risk Assessment
Customer; NIST Cybersecurity Framework and IEC 62443 (Parts 2-1, 3-2) A water plant approached exida to conduct a cybersecurity gap analysis and high-level risk assessment with the aim of abiding by the AWIA cybersecurity requirements. America's Water Infrastructure Act (AWIA) of 2018 requires community water systems serving 3,300 or more…
Recorded Webinars: Learning from the Florida Water Hack
In early February of this year a water treatment facility was compromised in Florida. The attackers successfully increased the concentration of sodium hydroxide (also known as lye) by a factor of 100 risking potential illness for the public as well as significant erosion and pipe damage. Fortunately, operators of the Oldsmar water treatment facility saw the attackers increase the concentration and were able to return the concentration to normal levels before there was any risk for harm to the public. This near-miss highlights several important trends for industrial cybersecurity: Industrial cybersecurity incidents can have major health and safety implications, Critical infrastructure makes an attractive target to a variety of hackers, Critical infrastructure is highly susceptible to cybersecurity attack. In this webinar we will review what is known so far about the attack on the Florida water system and identify practical steps that can be taken to improve the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure systems.
Blog Entry: Attack on Florida Water System Highlights Weak Security Protections for Critical Infrastructure
The Oldsmar Water Treatment Facility in Pinellas County Florida was compromised by hackers on February 5th. Hackers took advantage of the TeamViewer application that was still installed on the water facilities network to gain remote access 1 . The TeamViewer was originally installed to allow for status checks and troubleshooting…
Blog Entry: IEC 62443 - The Evolution of IACS Cybersecurity
When we were doing safety system designs in the 1980s, there was no Windows, there was no TCP/IP, there was no in Ethernet. We had to write our own protocols to transmit data to our I/O and our controllers. Fault-finding was always a challenge . What we ended up doing…
Recorded Webinars: Impact of Improper Maintenance Practices
The webinar addresses the problems relating to the impact of improper Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) maintenance practices and what this means, as well as looking at the competency requirements. Most companies believe they follow good SIS maintenance practices but do they really? Are they really measuring and tracking this? How do they measure and track?
Recent major accidents have been traced back to poor site safety practices, culture and competencies. The webinar addresses some of these issues and suggests a means for tracking and measuring how well maintenance and mechanical integrity is being performed.
What you will learn?
- How poor site safety will affect the SIS and SIF performance
- What constitutes the right approach
- What metrics can be used for tracking
- How to assess where a company is currently situated
Who should attend?
- Operations and maintenance personnel
- Plant Managers and Supervisors
Blog Entry: Alarm Rationalization: An Art or a Science? – Common Rationalization Mistakes
Successful alarm rationalization combines both art and science. From the scientific point of view, rationalization follows a systematic process that applies alarm management principles to determine whether an alarm is justified (needed) and to document its basis (cause, consequence, corrective action, time to respond) and settings (priority, setpoint) in a…
News Item: exida Offers Remote Lifecycle Services for Alarm Management
If your alarm management program has suffered during the COVID-19 pandemic, exida can get back on track. exida can help you improve your skills and knowledge (initial & refresher training), update / introduce new processes (alarm system remediation), add new functionality (alarm flood suppression, Alarm Help), and make progress with…
Reuter-Stokes, LLC - Flame Tracker – RS-9009 and RS-9010
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Reuter-Stokes, LLC - Flame Tracker - RS-9001, RS-9004, RS-9006
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Bell-O-Seal Valves Pvt. Ltd. - Bellow Seal Globe Valve
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
News Item: exida Announces Updated Version of IEC 61511 Functional Safety (FSE 100) Online Course
exida is excited to announce that an updated version of our FSE 100 - IEC 61511: Functional Safety Analysis, Design, and Operation is available for self-paced and open enrollment options. An example clip can be found below. This is a great course for those wishing to become an exida FSP…
News Item: Emerson Wins 2020 exida Safety Award
Sellersville, PA: exida, the global leader in functional safety, cybersecurity, and alarm management for the process industries, has presented Emerson with the 2020 exida Safety Award for their Fisher Digital Isolation TOV SIS Solution . The Fisher Digital Isolation Final Element is a triple offset valve (TOV) solution which was…
Recorded Webinars: Defining Industrial Cybersecurity Incidents
Cybersecurity for industrial control systems has changed significantly in the past two decades as the question has changed from “who would want to target an industrial automation and control system?” to “which industrial facility will be affected next?” This webinar will review major industrial cybersecurity incidents including: Stuxnet, the attack on the Sadara Petrochemical Facility, NotPetya, and the German Steel Mill. These events and others will be used as case studies to outline how industrial cybersecurity has been shaped over the years, and introduce key lessons learned that will help IACS be better prepared to defend against and respond to cybersecurity incidents.
Blog Entry: Rationalize Your Alarm Management Problems Away
The increasing global adoption of alarm management standards (ISA-18.2 and IEC 62682) is bringing the importance of alarm rationalization to the forefront. Rationalization is defined as the “process to review potential alarms using the principles of the alarm philosophy, to select alarms for design, and to document the rationale for…