Our Stories

A collection of our Blogs, Articles, and Whitepapers

A Tale of Two BPCS Credits, A Bayesian Case Study

Have you ever had the problem of having a perfectly functional BPCS* interlock that you know is highly failure immune, yet when it comes...

For the Second Time, aeSolutions Earns Siemens SIMATIC PCS 7 Safety Specialist Certification

Greenville, SC –August 11, 2021 -- aeSolutions®, a consulting, engineering, and systems integration company that provides industrial...

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,...

What is Truth? Do SIL Calculations Reflect Reality?

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

Reduce Process Risk by Addressing Systematic Failures

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