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aeSolutions Industrial Cybersecurity Division, aeCyberSolutions Acquired by Deloitte
aeSolutions Sharpens Focus on its Process Safety and Automation Business Greenville, SC – Aug. 5, 2021 – aeSolutions, a consulting,...
Adapting to the Unexpected: Process Safety Management from Afar
When the COVID-19 pandemic began, many plant sites minimized on-site staff to essential personnel, and restrictions prevented in-person...
Panel Discussion : The New Engineering Business
Join some of the aeSolutions team as we hold a panel discussion on the New Engineering Business, held as part of Engineers Week 2021. ...
Challenging Safety Metrics in Process Industries: A Bayesian Perspective on Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA)
The process industry uses Layer Of Protection Analysis (LOPA) to document extremely small probabilities for catastrophic events....
How Can I Effectively Place My Gas Detectors
Instrumentation, Reduction of Risk, Risk Assessment, Protection, Detection System, Alarms and Operator Interventions, Detector, Gas Detecti
Does Your Facility Have the Flu? Use Bayes Rule to Treat the Problem Instead of the Symptom
Is our industry addressing the problems facing it today? We idealize infinitesimally small event rates for highly catastrophic hazards,...
How to Design for Effective Situation Awareness and Operator Response to Abnormal Situations
Kahneman has written about fast and unconscious thinking (a.k.a. system 1), versus conscious and slow thinking (a.k.a. system 2). We use...
Designing Operator Tasks to Minimize the Impact of Heuristics and Biases
This paper proposes a combined approach of discussing the cognitive psychology behind System 1 and System 2 thinking, the types of heuristic
Improving Human Factors Review in PHA and LOPA
Having a working knowledge of these five tools will improve a PHA‐LOPA facilitator’s awareness and ability to better evaluate human error re
Improving the Safety Instrumented System (SIS) Design Process with Graphic Diagrams
Examples of the different types of graphic diagrams, methods in which the diagrams were utilized, and the benefits that each provided in th
FGS 1400 MK II - Evolution of the traditional Fire panel
To develop the Fire and Gas system requirements needed by industry, we first needed to understand the regulatory requirements, applicable in
Lessons Learned on SIL Verification and SIS Conceptual Design
by Richard E. Hanner & Ravneet Singh There are many critical activities and decisions that take place prior to and during the Safety...
Methodologies in Reducing Systematic Failures of Wired IPLs
Common sources of systematic failures and preventative or mitigative measures to prevent their occurrence are presented.
Reverend Bayes, Meet Process Safety-Use Bayes’ Theorem to Establish Site Specific Confidence in LOPA
Bayes’ Theorem is sorely missing from the toolbox of Process Safety practitioners. This paper will introduce Bayes’ Theorem to the reader an
SIL ratings and certification for fire & gas system hardware | Is industry barking up the wrong tree?
There are many devices (sensors, logic solvers and final elements) used in safety instrumented systems that are independently certified...
The use of Bayesian Networks in Functional Safety - Whitepaper
Functional safety engineers follow the ISA/IEC 61511 standard and perform calculations based on random hardware failures. These result in...
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