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  • Nidec Corporation Adopts Siemens’ Teamcenter X to Drive Innovation in Electric Motor Development

    Nidec Corporation Adopts Siemens’ Teamcenter X to Drive Innovation in Electric Motor Development

    Nidec will implement Product Lifecycle Management and Quality Management System capabilities from Siemens’ Teamcenter.
    By: SIEMENS
    31 July, 2025 | 1 minute
  • AI Set to Revolutionize Quality Management Software Capabilities in Manufacturing

    AI Set to Revolutionize Quality Management Software Capabilities in Manufacturing

    Artificial intelligence will transform QMS software by allowing manufacturers to close the loop on quality management more effectively, driving quality initiatives across the production lifecycle from design to control.
    13 February, 2024 | 1 minutes
  • Creating a LOPA Project Report

    Creating a LOPA Project Report

    LOPA is a valuable tool to analyze the risk associated with an event scenario and document the expected effectiveness of protective layers. This feature originally appeared in the December 2022 issue of InTech magazine.
    By: InTech, Narasimha Himakuntala
    09 January, 2023 | 6 minutes
  • Emerson Wins 2020 Exida Safety Award

    Emerson Wins 2020 Exida Safety Award

    Exida, the global leader in functional safety, cybersecurity, and alarm management for the process industries, has presented Emerson with the 2020 exida Safety Award for their Fisher Digital Isolation TOV SIS Solution.
    By: exida, Emerson
    26 January, 2021 | 1 minutes
  • Emerson announces acquisition of KNet software

    Emerson announces acquisition of KNet software

    KNet is used to extract, clean, transform and analyze operational and manufacturing data. Using libraries of advanced statistical and machine-learning algorithms, the software consumes large quantities of diverse information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) data into actionable knowledge.
    By: Emerson
    05 April, 2019 | 1 minute
  • System integration and functional safety: key issues impacting the actuation industry

    By Heike Schmeding, AUMA This article provides an update on two key issues currently impacting the actuation industry: host system integration and functional safety. It is a key requirement in any plant installation that the actuators used for opening or closing valves can be smoothly integrated with the plant’s automation system.
    05 October, 2015 | 6 minutes
  • Exida publishes Safety Equipment Reliablity Handbook - 4th Edition

    The SERH database provides a collection of failure rate data that is applicable for use in Safety Instrumented System (SIS) conceptual design verification in the process industry.
    By: exida
    29 July, 2015 | 1 minute
  • aeSolutions to resell ISA Training courses

    aeSolutions will market and deliver ISA's series of safety, cybersecurity, and alarm management courses throughout North America.
    03 June, 2014 | 2 minutes
  • exida certifies Moore Industries SSX and SST for SIL 2

    exida certified SSX and SST Safety Series isolator and splitter for functional safety, ensuring that they meet the functional safety requirements for Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 2 capability per IEC 61508:2010.
    By: exida
    07 August, 2013 | 1 minutes
  • ISA to conduct Technical Training Camps in Houston

    ISA will conduct three knowledge-intensive training programs in Houston, Texas, USA over four consecutive weeks in June 2013.
    24 April, 2013 | 2 minutes
  • Operator Response to Alarm as Protection Layer

    By Rajeev Limaye Track: Safety/Environmental This presentation focuses on the design considerations when alarm is used as an Independent Protection Layer—whether or not the instruments and sensors can be shared between different protection layers and how they could be arranged in fault-tolerant configurations to achieve safety, reliability, and independence.
    23 September, 2012 | 1 minutes
  • Energy Demand to Fuel Global Pressure Transmitter Market

    Key highlights for the pressure transmitter market in 2011 included growth in both established and emerging economies, especially for energy and infrastructure related applications.
    20 September, 2012 | 2 minutes
  • Exida publishes book on SIL Risk Analysis

    The book describes how to use risk analysis and Safety Integrity Level (SIL) target selection to evaluate process hazards and determine the proper risk reductions.
    By: exida
    29 August, 2012 | 1 minute
  • Pilz Develops New Method to Calculate Safety

    Risk estimation looks at risk from identified hazards to be qualified and quantified to distinguish high-risk possibilities from low-risk possibilities when considering machinery safety.
    By: Pilz
    18 October, 2011 | 1 minutes
  • exida releases PHAXprocess hazard analysis software

    The module helps identify and document hazards, hazardous events and associated sequence of events.
    By: exida
    26 April, 2011 | 1 minute
  • Safety Instrumented Systems Training Course - Electronic Download

    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.
    22 December, 2010 | 5 minutes
  • ABB adds SIS to Natural gas dehydration facility

    Components of the SIS include a PLC logic solver, ABB 2600T pressure transmitters, and pneumatically actuated ball valves.
    By: ABB
    18 August, 2010 | 2 minutes
  • AE Solutions and Siemens Introduce Safety Instrumented Burner Management System

    17 March, 2010 | 2 minutes
  • Alarm annunciators in safety related applications

    The adoption of EN61508 standard has introduced a very broad but systematic framework which allows plant engineers to apply the functional safety concepts systematically to all modern control equipment.
    By: Omniflex (UK) Limited
    05 September, 2008 | 5 minutes
  • Wurldtech Security Experts to speak at process control conferences

    Wurldtech experts will speak on Best Practices for Managing Cyber Security, Risk, Safety and Compliance.
    13 February, 2008 | 3 minutes
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