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  • ACM Facility Safety Offers Free Process Safety Workshop

    The free workshop teaches the essential elements of Safety Instrumented Systems including how to comply with myriad safety requirements. The workshop is available in a two-day classroom in Calgary, or as a three-day webinar.
    21 February, 2014 | 1 minutes
  • Exida certifies Woodward LESV-flow sensor

    Exida certified the LESV-Flow Sensor meets the functional safety requirements for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 2 capability per IEC 61508: 2010.
    11 February, 2014 | 1 minutes
  • Hima-Sella to Supply Fire & Gas Detection System for Oil Platform

    The HIMax Programmable Electronic System fire & gas detection system will be installed on the Kittiwake Oil Platform in UK North Sea.
    07 February, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • ISA to conduct four training events

    ISA will conduct four highly intensive technical training events—comprised of technician, automation engineering and safety courses—in Denver, Houston, and Carson, California during 2014.
    06 February, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • exida Certifies Detcon FP-700 Combustible Gas Sensor

    exida certified that the Detcon FP-700 Combustible Gas Sensor meets the functional safety requirements for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 2 capability per IEC 61508: 2010.
    05 February, 2014 | 1 minute
  • Schneider Electric's Integration of Invensys

    By Bill Lydon, Editor With this acquisition, Schneider Electric significantly enhanced its position to serve the process industries and now has a complete portfolio of products to serve the entire industrial and process automation industry. This article highlights a few key aspects of the integration of the two companies.
    28 January, 2014 | 4 minutes
  • Yokogawa Obtains ISASecure Certification for ProSafe-RS

    The ProSafe-RS safety instrumented system has obtained the ISASecure Embedded Device Security Assurance (EDSA) certification.
    27 January, 2014 | 1 minutes
  • Leine & Linde provide safety data for Machinery Directive

    Leine & Linde provide reliability data for their 500 and 800 series encoders in support of Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC.
    21 January, 2014 | 1 minutes
  • Emerson to provide backup power systems for FLNG project

    Emerson Network Power will provide uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems for Shell’s Prelude FLNG project, the world’s first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) project.
    16 January, 2014 | 1 minute
  • ACM Facility Safety Offers Free SIL Safety Training

    Topics covered include importing Process Hazards Analysis data, performing SIL Determination studies using Risk Graph and Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA), Safety Instrumented Function (SIF) Loop Verification/Validation, Safety Requirements Specifications, and Reporting.
    14 January, 2014 | 1 minutes
  • Yokogawa to control Yamal LNG Project in Russia

    Yokogawa will supply CENTUM VP integrated production control systems, ProSafe-RS safety instrumented systems, Exaquantum plant information management systems, analytical systems, analyzer shelters, and operator training systems.
    10 January, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • Flowserve achieves SIL 2 and 3 ratings for Arctic actuators

    Flowserve received IEC 61508 SIL 2 and SIL 3 certifications for Limitorque MXa electronic actuator optional output boards and arctic temperature components.
    16 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Emerson signs Control Southern as distributor

    Control Southern became a sales channel for Emerson's Net Safety Monitoring products in Georgia, Alabama, and eastern Tennessee.
    13 December, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • ISA book says automation can prevent nuclear power plant disasters

    ISA publishes a book that declares that another Chernobyl- or Fukushima-like catastrophe is inevitable unless nuclear power plants across the world adopt fully automated safety systems.
    06 December, 2013 | 3 minutes
  • Honeywell to Automate Largest Refinery in the Middle East

    Honeywell will provide the Integrated Control and Safety System (ICSS) for the 615,000 barrel-a-day Al Zour refinery complex to be built in southern Kuwait. Honeywell will also provide the front-end engineering design (FEED) for the system.
    04 December, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • ACM signs Autopro to implement SIL safety software

    ACM Facility Safety provides SafeGuard Sentinel SIL safety software that systems integrator Autopro Automation Consultants will help implement in process industries.
    03 December, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Thorsten Arnhold of R. Stahl appointed IECEx chairman

    On January 1, 2014, Prof. Dr. Thorsten Arnhold, Vice President Technology at R. Stahl, will take over the honorary position of IECEx system chairman for a period of three years.
    03 December, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Oil & Gas Projects to grow Process Safety System Market

    ARC forecasts solid growth for the safety system market, which will exceed $3 billion worldwide in 2017.
    22 November, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Yokogawa to control Chevron Phillips Petrochemicals Project

    Yokogawa will supply control systems, safety systems, remote instrument enclosures, and the analyzer shelters and analytical systems for the USGC Petrochemicals Project.
    21 November, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • Rockwell Automation updates Process-Safety Workbench

    AADvance Workbench 2.0 is now an integral part of the PlantPAx process automation system, and has a multiuser, multicontroller environment with built-in version control and traceability.
    11 November, 2013 | 2 minutes
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