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Process Safety Portal: Products, News, Articles, Events & Resources
Process Safety Products, News, Articles, Events & Resources
Welcome to Automation.com's portal for Process Safety with valuable information and resources for controls and automation engineers to design safe automation systems. Process safety includes components such as intrinsically safe sensors and enclosures to complete redundant safety shutdown systems. Control and automation engineers must design control systems to meet Process Safety Management (PSM) and Risk Management Program (RMP) requirements in facilities that handle, use, process or store extremely hazardous materials to minimize the likelihood and consequence of catastrophic incidents.
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Articles
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Burner Management System Safety Integrity Level Selection
By Michael D. Scott, AE Solutions Identifying the required amount of risk reduction is extremely important, especially when evaluating existing legacy burner management systems. Selection of an overly conservative Safety Integrity Level can have significant cost impacts. These costs will involve increased Safety Instrumented System functional testing or complete removal/upgrade of the existing burner management system. |
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SafetyBridge Technology
- 03/13/10 Control Engineering Europe, March 2010 By Lutz Rahlves, Phoenix Contact This idea in safety technology uses what looks like standard safety I/O modules distributed across a wide area. But there's a big difference: there's no safety bus or safety PLC to control their operation. |
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Video Pipeline Monitoring Offers A Tool To Avoid Costly Losses
- 03/10/10 Pipeline & Gas Journal, February 2010 By Steve Rubin, Longwatch Video delivers ready-to-use information, in the form of still and moving pictures, to help controllers make better decisions faster. Thus, video helps address the operational gaps in efficient and cost-effective ways. |
White Papers
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The “Logic” of Single Loop Logic Solvers
By Moore Industries Until recently, the thought of a safety system conjured up images of Triple Modular Redundant (TMR) systems that represent enormous capital expenditures. Today, however, manufacturers offer safety-certified devices that can be integrated into cost-effective solutions. One simple, economical, yet highly dependable option is using a Safety Trip Alarm as a Single Loop Logic Solver. |
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Alarm Trips: The Ups and Downs
By Moore Industries White paper contains information on the various types of alarm trips, effective applications, and safety factors and other considerations when implementing an alarm trip strategy. |
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PROFIsafe: Networked Safety for Process and Factory Automation
By ARC Advisory Group Safety has evolved from being a cost burden to a strategy for improving productivity and reducing downtime. PROFIsafe allows seamless communication of safety data independent of network media. Automation users are now taking advantage of these solutions to unify their network while maintaining conformity with safety standards up to SIL3. |
Application Stories
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METTLER-TOLEDO density meters help safety at Shanghai SECCO
- 03/16/10 Shanghai SECCO has three M-T DE45 density meters, each equipped with SC1 and SC30 automatic sample changers. |
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Distillery selects PC system for hazardous areas
- 02/19/10 HazardEX, February 2010 An ATEX-certified PC system from R.Stahl is now in use at Aberdeenshire based Ardmore Distillery. The fully automated control system allows the operators to control all aspects of the distilling process from one central location right next to the spirit safes in the heart of the still-house. |
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San Diego Gas & Electric uses wireless to improve operations
- 02/18/10 Five applications use wireless sensors from Emerson to increase throughput, extend asset life, and improve process efficiency and safety. |
Resources & Literature
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Poll Question - How many different networks do you have in your facility?
How many different communication networks do you have implemented in factories and/or plants? The list of available networks includes, but is not limited to: Foundation Fieldbus, ControlNet, PROFIBUS, Interbus, AS-Interface, CanOpen, CC-Link, PROFINET, HART, Ethernet, EtherCAT, Ethernet Powerlink, SERCOS, Modbus, LonWorks and DeviceNet. |
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Automation, Systems, and Instrumentation Dictionary
No technical library is complete without this comprehensive dictionary covering the entire vocabulary of automation, systems, and instrumentation. This authoritative fourth edition contains the latest trends in industrial instrumentation and automation. References relevant to ISA and IEC standards are included throughout, along with illustrations to enhance the definitions of more difficult terminology. With CDROM. |
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Getting a Safety Trip Alarm SIL certified
- 03/02/10
Product Safety Case Study describes how Moore Industries obtained IEC 61508 SIL certification for its STA Safety Trip Alarm through TÜV Rheinland. |
Training & Seminars
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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 implementing fieldbus, wireless technology, safety instrumented systems, streamlining maintenance, improving equipment effectiveness, and enhancing plant efficiency. |
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ISA Safety Instrumented Systems: Design, Analysis, and Justification Online Course
February 22 to April 16, 2010 This CyberU course focuses on the engineering requirements for the specification, design, analysis, and justification of safety instrumented systems for the process industries. Students will learn how to determine safety integrity levels and evaluate whether proposed or existing systems meet the performance requirements. |
Product Announcements
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Grace announces R-1A0033W-NPLPH interactive voltage label
- 03/17/10
R-1A0033W-NPLPH provides personnel with the ability to both visualize and verify the state of each electrical energy source feeding the enclosure. |
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WAGO introduces 770 Series WINSTA connectors
- 03/14/10
Connectors are UL recognized 600V devices for disconnection under load, providing a safe means of disconnection for hot-swappable components. |
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Tapeswitch releases long range perimeter guards
- 03/11/10
Perimeter guard provides high resolution (100mm) with a maximum range of 30 meters. |
Company & Organization News
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Standards Institution of Israel to work with TUV Rheinland
- 03/08/10 TUV Rheinland will test and certify electrical products and components destined for the Israeli. |
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ARC says prices are coming down on automation products
- 03/07/10 One element contributing to the price erosion is that controllers are rapidly becoming an automation commodity in some sectors. |
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ISA selects Automation.com as advertising sales partner
In addition to daily and weekly digital and online content, ISA will publish 6 print issues of InTech magazine in 2010. ISA selected Automation.com as the advertising sales representative for InTech magazine’s print, digital, and online editions. |
Project News
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Honeywell to provide technology and system design for Shell
- 03/08/10 Honeywell signed a global five-year agreement to be a Main Automation Contractor (MAC) for Shell. |
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PAS to improve automation at 12 Scottish power plants
- 01/20/10 PlantState Suite alarm software and services will improve safety and operability at twelve sites comprising gas-fired, coal-fired, and hydro-electric power generation stations. |
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Emerson to safely automate SABIC Innovative Plastics
- 01/12/10 SABIC Innovative Plastics will migrate all existing PROVOX process control and safety systems to DeltaV digital automation system from Emerson Process Management. |
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