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ABB's Safety Execution Center (SEC) in Mexico City has been certified by TÜV as having in place and applying a Functional Safety Management System (FSMS).

Metso achieved SIL3 certification for Jamesbury floating and trunnion soft-seated ball valves and SIL2 certification for soft-seated butterfly valves.

Automation.com, February 2011 By Fluke Technicians working on hazardous equipment and high-voltage circuits deserve every advantage to complete electrical test and measurement jobs safely. New test tools provide new ways to work safely and reduce exposure to electrical shock.

Solvay’s Tavaux plant faces the task of managing a collection of control systems from multiple suppliers. This includes DCSs, PLCs, relay-based systems, pneumatic systems, and emergency shutdown systems (ESD).

ATEX control panel certification allows Adalet to eliminate the requirement to re-submit enclosure assemblies to third party testing laboratories.

Deflagration Flame Arresters are a positive flame stop on low pressure tanks or piping systems containing flammable liquids or solvents having a low flash point.

Honeywell supplied a PKS control system, OneWireless, Digital Video Manager and Enraf Tank Gauging System to improve the efficiency and safety of a fuel depot near Ulaanbaatar.

TÜV certified the DeltaV SIS system as meeting requirements for three burner management system standards: NFPA 85, the European Standard EN 298, and the European Standard EN 50156.

Frost & Sullivan says the market earned revenues of $459.3 million in 2010 and estimates this to reach $632.4 million in 2016.

The upgrades to the DCS and PLCs include the installation of Experion Process Knowledge System (PKS) and Safety Manager.

Staples opened the year with a call-to-action to all ISA members to dedicate themselves to a high level of involvement in, and collaboration among, their sections, divisions, and the Society.

Husky series industrial Ethernet switches and Retriever series industrial media converters are compliant with Underwriters Laboratories’ (UL) Class 1 Division 2 approvals.

ABB won a contract from ConocoPhillips to supply an integrated process control and safety system for a new wellhead platform in the company’s Jasmine gas field in the central North Sea

K-System, H-System and Z-Series intrinsically safe solutions, have received BV (Bureau Veritas), GL (Germanischer Lloyd), LR (Lloyds Register) and DNV (Det Norske Veritas) approvals for use in marine-type applications.

This 650+ page resource includes product information and selection guidelines for machine and process safety solutions, and a safety library with more than 100 pages of educational resource material.

Safety has always been a critical measure of success for industrial organizations. Companies that are not able to comply with safety regulations and procedures in an effective fashion are putting their people, assets, and market position at risk.

This course on Safety Instrumented Systems is designed to make the learning experience comfortable and easy. Everything is explained in easy to understand terms, with plenty of graphics, interactive simulations and worked problems. Everything that you need to know about Safety Instrumented Systems, put together, in an easily digestible form, stripped of all the complexity, but still useful to impart skills to you that you can actually use in your work.

Several WAGO Through-Panel and Chassis-Mount Terminal blocks and Interconnect devices have earned a 100 kA SCCR rating with appropriate fuses.

27 models within the EPSITRON line of Electronic Circuit Breaker, PRO-Power Supply, Uninterruptible Power Supply and Redundancy modules achieved UL and cUL Certification.

The protocol, which has been certified by German testing authorities TÜV Rheinland and TÜV Süd, allows for communication cycles at the microsecond level.