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Key Considerations Establishing Site or Corporate SIS Guidelines

Key considerations to developing SIS guidelines, with the SIS lifecycle generalized into three main sections: Concept Through Startup, Opera

HIPPS Justification - High Integrity Pressure Protection System

What’s a HIPPS and where are they used? There are two common applications for a High Integrity Pressure Protection System (HIPPS). First,...

Is That Really Why Control Systems Go Wrong? - Video Presentation

Presented by Greg Hardin - Senior Principal Specialist, aeSolutions The British HSE publication “Out of control - Why control systems go...

Functional Safety Specialists May be Stuck in the Past – Do our SIL calculations Reflect Reality?

Functional safety specialists may be stuck in the past and doing industry a disservice. The current industry trend is to only consider rando

Reduce Process Risk by Addressing Systematic Failures

[Updated to now include download of relevant whitepaper] Functional safety engineers are immersed in performance calculations involving...

How to keep the alarm management lifecycle evergreen

It is commonly touted that once a plant rationalizes their alarms, they have completed the alarm management lifecycle. Nothing could be...

The Significant Financial Benefits of Proper Front End Loading on a Burner Management System Project

The CII defines a front end loading package for a capital facility as “the process of developing sufficient strategic information for owners