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2007 Machine Safeguarding Design Guide
This 2-volume Machine Safeguarding Design Guide offered by Omron STI includes over 200 pages of engineering and regulation data. The balance of the 1400 pages includes product specifications and selection guides for the following safety products: Light Curtains, Laser Scanners, Mats, Interlocks, Relays, Network Controllers, Contact Strips, Edges, Two Hand Controls, and Enabling Switches.
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Featured Articles:
The Case of the Gassy Greenhouse; Design Techniques for Safety and Security-Critical Systems; Round-up of new machinery safety standards; and more
Resources & Literature:
Machine Safeguarding Design Guide; Machine Safety Products Catalog; Safety-Related Position Measuring Systems; and more
Application Stories:
Fire sprinkler systems get safety torque; Hosing down installation time at Dunlop Oil & Marine; Software ensures correct SIL3 certification; and more
Featured Training:
SIS: The Must Know for Implementation; SIS - Design, Analysis & Justification; Understanding and Applying Instrumentation in Hazardous Locations; and more
Product Announcements:
Safety Light Curtains; OSHA-Compliant Emergency Stop; Hinge-operated safety interlocks; SIS-Health Monitoring software; and more
Company News:
ISA submits electrical safety standard to ANSI; Omron reorganizes machine safety biz; and more
Application News:
Honeywell installs Experion at paraxylene plant; Emerson is digital automation supplier for Qatargas; Invensys automates LNG terminal in LA
Featured Events:
Safety & Health Expo; ISA Safety Division Symposium; ISA Fugitive Emissions-LDAR Symposium
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The Case of the Gassy Greenhouse
Design News, May 2007
By Kenneth Russell, Professor Emeritus, MIT
Hydrogen is the bane of aluminum casting. There are several accepted ways to remove hydrogen from molten aluminum. The foundry had clearly not availed itself of any.
Design Techniques for Safety and Security-Critical Systems
Embedded System Conference, April 2007
By Robert B. K. Dewar, AdaCore
Safety-critical software will need to satisfy security-based standards, and high-security software reused in safety-critical systems will need to satisfy safety-based standards. This paper explores the impact of these dual trends on software development.
Round-up of new machinery safety standards
Industrial Safety Talk, April 2007
By Procter Machinery Guarding
2006 was a busy year in the world of machinery safety standards, with several new and updated standards being published.
SIL 3-rated relays: The new accepted industry practice
Plant Engineering, April 2007
By Mike Garrick, Phoenix Contact
Accepted industry practice for process safety applications has been the use of standard relays in redundant or triplicate configurations to achieve 'safe’ standard relay functionality.
Explosive environments
Plant Services, March 2007
By Charles Skinner, at TUV Rheinland
If machinery or equipment is to be used in an explosive environment, the design engineer and local fire marshall must use North American HAZ-LOC standards to decide what level of protection is needed.
Machine safety systems ease troubleshooting, expedite repairs and improve safety
Plant Services, March 2007
By Dan Hebert, senior technical editor
The conflict between keeping machines running and maintaining a safe working environment always will exist. Fortunately, advances in machine automation and safety systems are like having a guardian angel on your shoulder.
2007 Machine Safeguarding Design Guide
This 2-volume Machine Safeguarding Design Guide offered by Omron STI includes over 200 pages of engineering and regulation data. The balance of the 1400 pages includes product specifications and selection guides for safety products.
Banner Engineering Machine Safety Products Catalog (2006-2007)
Machine Safety Products catalog includes thousands of products for machine safety applications in its more than 300 full-color pages.
Safety-Related Position Measuring Systems
White paper from Heidenhein discusses how a safety-related position measuring system can be used as a single-encoder system with a safe control in applications with control category SIL-2 (in accordance with IEC 61 508) or performance level “d” (in accordance with ISO 13 849).
InterTech provides on-line Industrial Leak Test Library - 04/05/07
The InterTech Development Company web site has an online library of leak test and functional test applications. It explains how factors such as fixture design, systems integration, and customization of test instruments bear on Gauge R&R in real world applications.
General Monitors provides online SIL Resource Center - 02/28/07
The online SIL Resource Center has examples of how to determine Safety Integrity Levels and Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS), links to associated standards organizations, an extensive Questions and Answers section on the background and requirements of SIL and SIS process industry practices, along with a Common SIL Myths section.
Fire sprinkler systems get safety torque
Process and Control Today, April 2007
By John Houston, Editor
Replacing a torque meter with a torque sensor has revolutionised the validating process for Fireset sprinkler systems built by Grundfos Pumps Ltd. in Leighton Buzzard.
Hosing down installation time at Dunlop Oil & Marine
Process and Control Today, March 2007
Dunlop Oil & Marine wanted to upgrade the controls of one of its rubber cord ‘calender’ machines. CT Systems (UK) Ltd, proposed a Profibus drive network and ASi Safe. Not only did ASi Safe cut installation time, it also improved the safety of the system to Category 4.
Software ensures correct SIL3 certification
Control, February 2007
As they adopt the IEC 61511 standard and apply proper HAZOP and HAZAN tools, users realize they must certify their entire loop to meet SIL3 requirements, while other loops don’t need to meet SIL3. To apply the right SIL, safety engineers are demanding more flexible, cost-effective safety solutions.
Safe Designs Dodge Downtime
Intech, February 2007
By Ellen Fussell Policastro, Associate Editor
A Virginia chemical plant, where the entire facility is a hazardous area, installed Foundation fieldbus controls. The engineer involved explains the ins and outs of its bout with intrinsic safety and fieldbus, the costs involved, and the choice it had to make between FISCO and Entity.
A new approach to robotic safety: SafetyBUS p at BMW
The development of fieldbus for safety-related applications and new International and European Standards have fundamentally changed the manner in which safety is now being engineered in the plant. BMW are the first to directly integrate robotic safety functions using a safety-related fieldbus.
Air Products Realizes Multiple Significant Gains With Alarm Management
Proper management of alarms and alarm data can be a significant source of “hidden capacity” in a plant, as Air Products and Chemicals Inc (APCI) discovered when they implemented a comprehensive alarm management program at their Calvert City, KY ethylene vinyl acetate plant. Air Products was looking to make three improvements to their plant performance: a reduction in off-spec product, an increase in capacity by reducing cycle time and, due to reassignment of duties of the controlroom staff, a better way to present and prioritize alarms.
Safety Instrumented Systems: The Must Know for Implementation
May 22, 2007, Mount Laurel, NJ
Learn how to define system performance and design systems according to industry standards.
Safety Instrumented Systems-Design, Analysis & Justification
June 19-21, 2007 Jacksonville, FL
Engineering requirements for specification, design, analysis, and justification of safety instrumented systems (SISs) are the focus of the course
Understanding and Applying Instrumentation in Hazardous Locations (ES10)
June 20-21, 2007 Jacksonville, FL
Provides a detailed, systematic approach to the specification and implementation of instrumentation in hazardous locations. Related standards from (NFPA), (NEMA), (IEC), (API), and ISA are stressed. Price $995.
Machine Safety Tutorials
Banner Engineering offers free tutorials on Safety Light Screens, Two-Hand Control Safety Systems, Emergency Stops, Machine Safety Basics, and Risk Assessment Basics plus free Q/A sessions on Improving E-Stop Safety, Risk Assessment; Safety Light Screens: Type 2 vs Type 4; Fiber Optic Safety Systems; Safety Modules and Fiber Optics in Explosive Environments.
Emerson’s PlantWeb University Online Learning Center
Free web-based training includes more than 40 brief, practical courses on new automation technologies and strategies. Topics include safety instrumented systems.
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Omron releases MS4800 Safety Light Curtains - 04/20/07 MS4800 is available in Advanced, Standard and Basic versions to optimize the cost of safeguarding design. The MS4800 enable users to purchase as many features they need, without paying for those they don't. |
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ASI releases OSHA-Compliant Emergency Stop - 03/27/07 The e-stop station comes with a red actuator and a yellow enclosure to meet international and domestic requirements. The red switch on a yellow background normally reserved for e-stops meets OSHA, NFPA 79 and ISO 60204-1 requirements. |
| Omron releases hinge-operated safety interlocks - 03/16/07 HP2008 hinge-operated safety interlock switches are suited for use on smaller guard doors. The switches are available in solid or hollow shaft versions and provide force guided contacts with tamper-resistant operation. A NEMA 6 enclosure enables them to withstand water washdown cleaning while providing a minimum of four million actuations |
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Phoenix Contact becomes Innominate distributor - 05/04/07
Phoenix Contact will distribute Innominate's mGuard industrial security products.
InTech and CITGO start Cyber Security Blog - 05/03/07
InTech magazine and CITGO are starting a blog that will cover CITGO's design and implementation of a secure process control network.
ISA submits electrical safety standard to ANSI - 04/17/07
ISA submitted ISA-12.12.01, "Nonincendive Electrical Equipment for Use in Class I and II, Division 2 and Class III, Divisions 1 and 2 Hazardous (Classified) Locations," for ANSI approval.
PLCopen forms Security working group for control systems - 04/12/07
The goal is to define a test bed and a set of routines, implementing a set of software tools and scripts to perform these test, and making this available to the public in order to be able prove a level of networking security within a broad set of control systems.
OMRON reorganizes machine safeguarding business - 04/02/07
Omron merges safety equipment acquired from STI last year into a new category brand called 'STI' (Safety, Innovation & Technology). Its OS3101 Laser Safety Scanner would be the first product marketed under the new brand.
ISA's SP99 Security Standards Committee makes progress - 03/29/07
ISA's SP99 standards development committee is making substantial progress on several fronts in its work to develop standards and guidelines for the electronic security of industrial automation and control systems.
Honeywell to install Experion at world’s largest paraxylene plant - 05/02/07
Honeywell will supply a $7.7 million Experion PKS and Safety Manager for the $1.2 billion Sohar Aromatics plant, located at Oman’s Port of Sohar.
Emerson to be digital automation supplier for Qatargas - 03/12/07
Emerson will engineer, project manage, install, commission, and provide long term support on automation solutions for the company's oil, gas and petrochemical facilities in Qatar.
Invensys to automate Aker Kvaerner LNG terminal in Louisiana - 03/08/07
Invensys will supply Foxboro distributed control systems (DCS), Triconex safety systems and fire & gas systems, and Foxboro instrumentation to Aker Kvaerner, Inc. for a new LNG receipt terminal being built near the Gulf Coast of Louisiana.
Safety & Health Expo
May 22–24, 2007 Birmingham, UK
The event offers 320 companies exhibiting a broad range of products, services and independent advice, making Safety & Health Expo Europe's largest annual health and safety event.
ISA to hold Safety Division Symposium May 22-23
The 4th annual Safety Division Symposium will be held 22-23 May at the Wyndham Mount Laurel in Mount Laurel, New Jersey.
ISA to hold Fugitive Emissions-LDAR Symposium in June
ISA's 7th Annual Fugitive Emissions - LDAR Symposium will be held 5-7 June 2007 at the Doubletree Austin Hotel in Austin, Texas. The event will focus on compliance with today's complex leak detection and repair (LDAR) requirements, methods, and management.
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