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Emerson Introduces Advanced Redundant Control System (ARCS) for Increased Operational Certainty in Emergency Shut Down Situations
Emerson Introduces Advanced Redundant Control System (ARCS) for Increased Operational Certainty in Emergency Shut Down Situations

ARCS is the only safety system in the industry with individual valve isolation for online maintenance without process interruption.
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The ins and outs of safety integrity level reliability calculations
The ins and outs of safety integrity level reliability calculations

Use SIL calculations to verify the reliability of your safety-instrumented systems — not to compensate for a poor design or inadequate work processes
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Safety systems – why fitting SIL Systems is only the start of it

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Will your safety valve respond?
Will your safety valve respond?

Consider valve controller configurations that allow replacement of a failed solenoid without affecting the protection of associated safety instrumented functions
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Updated BP Texas City Animation on the 15th Anniversary of the Explosion | CSB
Updated BP Texas City Animation on the 15th Anniversary of the Explosion | CSB
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Bugs in Critical Infrastructure Gear Allow Sophisticated Cyberattacks
Bugs in Critical Infrastructure Gear Allow Sophisticated Cyberattacks

Security problems in Schneider Electric programmable logic controllers allow compromise of the hardware, responsible for physical plant operations.
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Defending the Control Room: Layer by Layer
Defending the Control Room: Layer by Layer

A look at the security threats facing control and safety systems, and the layers of protection to safeguard against them
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Bayesian analysis improves functional safety
Bayesian analysis improves functional safety

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When Should You Conduct a Functional Safety Assessment (FSA)? | mangansoftware.com
When Should You Conduct a Functional Safety Assessment (FSA)? | mangansoftware.com

Safety standards require that every Safety Instrumented System(SIS) shall have a Functional Safety Assessment (FSA) performed prior to being placed into service. A FSA is required in order to provide assurance that a SIS has been specified, designed, and tested in accordance with all phases of the Safety Lifecycle.
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Application fundamentals of safety solenoids
Application fundamentals of safety solenoids

A guide to the proper design and specification of these deceptively simple eletromechanical devices
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Functional Safety

Why Bother with Functional Safety Management?

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How to acquire SIS expertise
How to acquire SIS expertise

One of the key indicators of competency besides experience is training. This article discusses some of the training options available to develop skills in SIS engineering, and to help engineers become competent in this area to meet the requirements of IEC 61511.
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Diagnostics effects on SILs and spurious trips
Diagnostics effects on SILs and spurious trips

How reliability data validation (RDV) should be applied to properly determine if safety system devices are individually capable of satisfying the target safety integrity level (SIL) rating, and verify if the whole safety system implementation performs according to design.
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Safety Engineering Meets Behavioral Science
Safety Engineering Meets Behavioral Science

Technological advances might require safety engineers and machine operators to rethink safety needs. Our latest survey reveals how the human side of safety engineering is evolving, and what challenges lie ahead.
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How to develop SIF proof tests
How to develop SIF proof tests

Proof testing is an integral part of the maintenance of the safety integrity of our safety instrumented systems (SIS) and safety-related systems. Here's how to develop and implement safety instrumented function (SIF) proof tests.
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The Value of Safety Instrumented Systems - Chemical Engineering
The Value of Safety Instrumented Systems - Chemical Engineering

A safety instrumented system (SIS) is important to ensure the safe operation of a plant. The SIS requires up-to-date sensors — recent developments in vortex flowmeters are presented here
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aeSolutions gets physical with cybersecurity steps
aeSolutions gets physical with cybersecurity steps

System integrator aeSolutions explains how it helps its clients follow operations technology (OT) requirements to ensure cybersecurity in their process operations.
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Who Is Accountable for Safety Systems’ Cybersecurity?
Who Is Accountable for Safety Systems’ Cybersecurity?

There has been considerable debate about the appropriate level of connectivity (if any) between safety instrumented systems (SIS) and basic process control systems (BPCS), most recently with respect to Who Is Accountable for Safety Systems’ Cybersecurity.
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Manufacturers Can Make Safety a Profit Center
Manufacturers Can Make Safety a Profit Center

Schneider Electric outlines how the soon-to-be announced Safety Advisor technology, based on Triconex and EcoStruxure, will create a “profitable safety” business model.
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Limits of LOPA
Limits of LOPA

Limitations and misuse of layers of protection analysis
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Survey finds process safety stuck in status quo, Sphera says - Chemical Engineering
Survey finds process safety stuck in status quo, Sphera says - Chemical Engineering

Companies responding to the 2019 Operational Risk and Process Safety Management Survey* conducted by Sphera (Chicago, Ill.; www.sphera.com), the largest
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