Plant engineers know that many field failure reports show root cause due to errors in final element design and testing. A rigorous engineering process to design, verify, and test can catch errors in a remote actuated valve assembly before shipment and deployment. This rigorous process should also get credit for their practices. This webinar will show some example field failures and how they can be avoided by a rigorous integration process. The result is a decrease in realistic failure rate of the remote actuated valve assembly. This webinar will include examples and will show the positive impact on the risk reduction factor and SIL calcs.
exida Recorded Webinars
eRAVA: exida Remote Actuated Valve Assembly - Final Element Certification
Recording Date: February 2020
About the Presenter:
Loren Stewart, CFSE
Loren Stewart graduated from Virginia Tech with a BSME. She has over 10 years of professional experience. She currently works for exida consulting as a safety engineer, focusing on the mechanical aspects of their customers. Along with assessing the safety of products and creating FMEDAs and reports, she researches stiction and is creating a database for the 2H initiative according to IEC 61508.