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By Ryan Hildebrandt How do you identify and reduce risk in an automation project? At each stage of the project lifecycle, and for every party involved, risk can be introduced (and subsequently identified, assessed, and mitigated). Let's look at how these uncertainties come into play and how to reduce the effects on your overall schedule and budget.

By Geoffrey Peckham, Clarion Safety System With the rise in product liability litigation based on “failure to warn” over the past several decades, product safety labels have become a leading focal point in lawsuits faced by capital equipment manufacturers. Here are some key best practices that are shaping the current “state-of-the-art” for product safety label design.

Software PDLP simplifies functional safety software project management. Three training courses are scheduled.

As a project manager, continuously monitor everything for signs of problems and immediately inquire if something seems amiss.

Project management is really just risk management, and a large source of risk to an automation project is the control panels.

Invensys will sell ACM Facility Safety’s process safety decision-support software, Machu Picchu.

Guide details the company’s suite of services including machine and process safety education, assessment and risk identification, engineering and design, as well as integration and implementation.

Shell will integrate Achilles Satellite into internal testing & risk assessment activities, and adopt Achilles Level 1 Certification into procurement requirements and factory acceptance tests.

Wurldtech and Matrikon signed an agreement focused on introducing cyber risk management solutions for real-time industrial environments.

In today’s complex environment of rules, regulations and finance, the identification, evaluation, and reduction of safety risks is paramount. Changes to safety standards introduced the need for a systematic way of quantifying risk levels in order to determine the scope of the required safety systems needed to protect personnel and machines from possible injury or damage.