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Blog Entry: Alarm Response Procedures: More than Just a Good Idea
From an operations point of view, one of the significant parts of the ISA-18.2 and IEC 62682 alarm management standards is the endorsement of alarm response procedures. An alarm response procedure, otherwise known as “Alarm Help” or “Alarm Response Manual”, is defined as guidance for response to an alarm (e.g.,…
News Item: Control Instruments Wins 2019 Safety Award
Sellersville, PA: Control Instruments Corporation , the experts in gas detection and solvent vapor monitoring was awarded the exida 2019 Safety Award for their PrevEx Series 670 Flammability Analyzer. The exida Safety and Cyber Awards were designed to identify and acknowledge exida certified products which best display an innovative and…
Recorded Webinars: The Cybersecurity Lifecycle (IEC 62443) and exSILentia Cyber
The cybersecurity lifecycle was developed to define the key steps in analyzing security risks, designing secure systems, and maintaining security throughout the life of industrial control systems. Learn how to use exSILentia Cyber to complete key steps of the Cybersecurity Lifecycle Outlined in IEC 62443 including high-level risk assessment, detailed risk assessment, security level verification. This webinar will demonstrate how a tool-based approach allows for consistent lifecycle implementation across an organization and can provide significant benefits including knowledge capture, built-in industry best practice, consistent template usage, and report generation for easy result sharing.
Blog Entry: Back to Basics 20 – Safe Failure Fraction, SFF
Safe Failure Fraction (SFF) is defined as the ratio of the average rate of safe failures plus dangerous detected failures of the subsystem to the total average failure rate of the subsystem. It is defined for a single channel (no redundancy, 1oo1). It is a measurement of the likelihood of…
Schneider Electric - Field Device Controller 280 (FDC280) – Firmware Version 0901004000
ISASecure in the Security Automation Equipment List
Honeywell Process Solutions - Experion PKS R510.1
ISASecure in the Security Automation Equipment List
Blog Entry: Getting the Best IEC 62443 Cybersecurity Certification?
After careful planning and development of your system, the last thing you want to worry about is the credibility of your certification. Although it may seem like a given for your certification to be well accepted by your customers, it is never a bad idea to dig a little deeper…
News Item: exida Launches Self-Paced IACS IEC 62443 Cybersecurity Lifecycle Course
Sellersville, PA: The global leader in industrial cybersecurity services for the process industries, exida, has launched the self-paced training course CS 102: Industrial Automation Control Systems (IACS) IEC 62443 Cybersecurity Lifecycle . CS 102 addresses integration of cybersecurity into the functional safety lifecycle per the IEC 62443 standards. While cybersecurity…
News Item: Cisco Catalyst Wins 2019 exida Cyber Award
Sellersville, PA: The global leader in automation cybersecurity certification, exida, has presented Cisco with the 2019 exida Cyber Award in the Network Device category for their Catalyst IE3x00 Rugged Series switch . The Cisco Catalyst IE3x00 Rugged Series switches feature advanced, full Gigabit Ethernet speed for rich real-time data -…
Blog Entry: Back to Basics 19 – Route 2H
Route 2 H is one of two Architectural constraints options made available in the standards IEC 61508-2 and IEC 61511. Route 1 H . Both Route 1 H and Route 2 H are limitations that impose the hardware selected to implement a safety-instrumented function, regardless of the performance calculated for…
Blog Entry: CSB Cites Lack of Alarm Management as Contributing Factors to Blowout in Oklahoma
US Chemical Safety Board cites lack of Alarm Philosophy , Alarm Rationalization , and State-Based Alarming as Contributing Factors to Blowout in Oklahoma On January 22, 2018, a blowout and rig fire at the Pryor Trust gas well killed five workers, who were inside the driller’s cabin on the rig…
News Item: exida Establishes Foothold in Australia
The global leader in functional safety, industrial cybersecurity, and alarm management for the process industries, exida, today announced the establishing of a local office in Brisbane, QLD, Australia. “exida has been very active in Australia over the last two decades, we have formed many good relationships with customers of our…
Blog Entry: Back to Basics 18 – Route 1H
Route 1 H is one of two Architectural constraints options made available in the standards IEC 61508-2 and IEC 61511. Route 1H . Both Route 1 H and Route 2 H are limitations that impose the hardware selected to implement a safety-instrumented function, regardless of the performance calculated for a…
News Item: Honeywell ControlEdge PLC Wins 2019 exida Cyber Award
Sellersville, PA: The global leader in industrial automation cybersecurity certification, exida, has presented Honeywell with the exida Embedded Device Safety Award for their product, the ControlEdge PLC. The exida Cyber Awards honor exida-certified products and processes that best demonstrate new and innovative work in the realm of industrial cybersecurity, which…
Yokogawa Electric Corporation - TDLS8100 Probe Style Tunable Diode Laser Spectrometer
IEC 61508 in the Safety Automation Equipment List
Recorded Webinars: My TOP 3 List (For Certification)
Are you seeing functional safety or cybersecurity inquiries on your Request for Proposals (RFP)? Are you new to “SIL,” “PL,” or “SL?”
Well since another incredible year has come and (almost) gone, it is that time of year again to go over our TOP 3 Questions that are asked for Certification in the Process Industry!
(i.e. IEC61508, IEC61511, IEC62443, ISO26262, IEC62061, ISO13849 to name a few)
Recorded Webinars: Why Bother With Functional Safety Assessments?
This webinar highlights the importance and need for performing functional safety assessments and the problems that can arise if these are not performed correctly. The IEC61511 standards identifies 5 stages where Functional Safety Assessments are recommended and/or required. The wording in the standard is somewhat confusing and this webinar helps shed light on which ones should be performed. The primary purpose of a functional safety assessment is to act as an independent means of cross-checking safety to ensure that all the requirements in the SRS have been met. It is also a primary means of ensuring that systematic errors have not been introduced over the course of the lifecycle.
Blog Entry: exida’s Safety Reliability Analysis (SRA) and How It May Help You
We all know that an FMEDA is only as good as the assumptions made regarding typical design engineering practices and the database used for the failure rates. Here is the catch, not all products are designed and manufactured per the same rules! Many manufacturers boast that their product is the…
Recorded Webinars: Do You Follow Good Site Safety Practices?
This webinar addresses the question of what Good Site Safety Practices means, as well as looking at the competency requirements. Most companies believe they follow good site safety practices but do they really? Are they really measuring and tracking this?
Recent major accidents have been traced back to poor site safety practices, culture and competencies. The webinar address some of these issues and suggests a means for tracking and measuring how well maintenance and mechanical integrity is being performed. The Site Safety Index model is a simple, semi-quantitative tool that can be used to assess where a company sits in terms of its capabilities and performance.
Xilinx, Inc. - Zynq UltraScale+ devices
IEC 61508, ISO 26262 in the Safety Automation Equipment List