Are you up to speed on all the latest security and safety best practices with it comes to process control automation? ISA’s Safety and Security Symposium is coming up very soon – April 25-27th, 2012 at the Crown Plaza in Anaheim. The symposium provides you with unbiased knowledge to assist you in your career and [...]
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2012 AIChE Spring Meeting & 8th Global Congress on Process Safety
In case you missed it, the 2012 AIChE Spring Meeting & 8th Global Congress on Process Safety is being held this coming week (April 1-4, 2012) in Houston, TX. There is some great content being presented: Event Keynote: MICHAEL J. DOLAN Senior Vice President, ExxonMobil Corporation “Process Safety and Corporate Responsibility” Other Process Safety Content: Look [...]
ISA12 Hazloc Standards Members Gather for Intensive Week of Meetings
Veteran and novice ISA12 (Electrical Equipment for Hazardous Locations) Members will gather in Orlando, Florida March 12-16 to cover topics such as intrinsic and increased safety, encapsulation, gas detectors, fiber optics, and installation, maintenance, and repair. ISA12 covers the work of 40 standards, including 25 adoptions of IEC standards. The week will include review of [...]
Eliminating Difficult Start-ups with State Based Controls
Track – Automated Startup of A Difficult Process; Presented at ISA Automation Week in Mobile, Alabama, October 18. Some processes are just difficult to start up. Every year, significant production is lost due to start up delays, product quality issues after startup, mistakes or gaps in operator expertise and other reasons. In fact, the U.S. [...]
ISA12′s Production Level Elevated following Meetings
The ISA12 Electrical Equipment for Hazardous Locations meetings in Cape Cod last month culminated in more than five draft standards out for ballot (covering areas such as gas detectors, nonincendive equipment, and instrument purging). On November 1st, ISA submitted 35 proposals to the NFPA for the 2014 National Electrical Code®, following up on successfully accepted [...]
SIS Testing and Documentation Practices [video]
This panel discusses the techniques that are used for SIS testing and how the results are documented and subsequently used. This presentation was one of many high quality technical sessions at ISA Automation Week 2012.
ISA12 Members Maintain a High Activity Level at October Meetings
More than forty ISA12 (Electrical Equipment for Hazardous Locations) Members will gather in Cape Cod, Massachusetts October 3-7 to cover topics such as intrinsic safety, gas detectors, instrument purging, and fiber optics. ISA12 covers the work of 40 standards, including 25 adoptions of IEC standards. During the week, the group will be working on submission [...]
Viewpoint on ISA TR84.0.02 Simplified Methods and Fault Tree Analysis
Abstract: ANSI/ISA-S84.01-1996 and IEC 61508 require the establishment of a safety integrity level for any safety instrumented system or safety related system used to mitigate risk. Each stage of design, operation, maintenance, and testing is judged against this safety integrity level. Quantitative techniques can be used to verify whether the safety integrity level is met. [...]
HMI Design: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Poor HMI designs have been identified as factors contributing to abnormal situations, billions of dollars of lost production, accidents, and fatalities. Many HMIs actually impede rather than assist operators. Many of the poor designs are holdovers due to the limitations of early control systems and the lack of knowledge of system designers. However, with the [...]
Control Valves in Process Safety Applications
Update: I received great news from Riyaz that the ISA Kuwait section has agreed to let us upload and link to their December 2009 newsletter containing Riyaz’s article, When is a Safety Integrity Level (SIL) Rating of a Valve Required? I’d like to thank the ISA Kuwait staff and encourage readers in this region to join and participate. [...]