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This paper will cover: the development of a SIS front end loading package the project cost savings realized attributed to following the saf

by aeSolutions Technical Team ​ A two‐prong templatized approach to multiple brownfield burner management system upgrades can result in significant cost savings. The first step requires coming up with an equivalent design for the safety instrumented burner management system following the ISA 84 safety lifecycle , as allowed in current NFPA standards. The second step utilizes a templatization approach for multiple units with common functionality that will allow an organizatio

‘Evergreen’ and ‘lifecycle’ have become two common buzz words in our industry. They are thrown around in a variety of topics, processes, and

Incorporate quantitative Human Factors into a SIL analysis. Representative operating units at various stages of maturity in human factors an

Effective Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) facilitators combine soft skills with technical knowledge to guide PHA teams through a thorough iden

Introduction to Using RAGAGEP for Overpressure Risk Mitigation

A systematic database approach can be used to design, develop and test a Safety Instrumented System (SIS) using methodologies that are in co

Are random hardware failures the only thing that cause a safety instrumented function (SIF) to fail? What if our assumptions are wrong? What

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

The benefit of such studies is that it’s easier and less expensive to make necessary changes to systems while the design is still on paper.

Functional Safety & Bayesian Networks Functional safety engineers fol low the ISA/IEC 61511 standard & perform calculations based on random hardware failures. These result in low failure probabilities, which are then combined with similarly low failure probabilities for other safety layers, to show that the overall probability of an accident is extremely low (e.g., 1E-5/yr). Unfortunately, such numbers are based on frequentist assumptions and cannot be proven. Looking at act

What might go wrong with an FSA, and what might you do to ensure that an FSA runs smoothly?

Inspired by “Conducting an Effective Functional Safety Assessment” presented at 2019 ISA PIC 2019—Process Industry Conference. by Greg...

Industry uses many numbers in process safety associated with predicting the likelihood of rare, catastrophic events (e.g., failure rates, de

Updated April 2026 - It is commonly touted that once a plant rationalizes their alarms , they have completed the alarm management lifecycle. Nothing could be further from the truth. So what can an organization do to keep the alarm lifecycle alive and evergreen? Alarm management is the collection of processes and practices for determining, documenting, designing, operating, monitoring, and maintaining alarm systems. It is characterized by design principles including hardwar

Warren Johnson, senior project manager for consulting, engineering and integration firm aeSolutions, was featured in CONTROL magazine...