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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

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...

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,...

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

Methodologies in Reducing Systematic Failures of Wired IPLs

by Richard E. Hanner & Tab Vestal The history of high consequence incidents in industry reveals that most accidents were the result of...

Case Study of a Safety Instrumented Burner Management System (SI-BMS)

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

A Database Approach to the Safety Life Cycle

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

Reduce Process Risk by Addressing Systematic Failures

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

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