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Guided Wave Radar: An Overview and Its Impact on Industrial Level Measurement
Accurate, safe and reliable level measurement in oil & gas, chemical and power industries is crucial. -
Yokogawa Integrated Control and Safety System Receives ISASecure Certification
Yokogawa Electric Corporation has announced that its integrated control and safety system has received ISASecure System Security Assurance (SSA) Level 1 certification. -
Overcome Critical Cooling Challenges With Non-Intrusive Instrumentation
As cloud computing and AI demand surge, data centers require accurate, reliable and scalable measurement solutions to meet expanding needs. -
SIL 1, 2 or 3: Matching Your Process Safety Instruments to Actual Risk Under IEC 61511
SIL determination is a site-specific, process-specific analysis, and under IEC 61511, it is the process owner’s responsibility to carry it out with rigor. -
Building a Safety-First Culture With Automated Robotic Solutions
Let's consider the risks of relying on manual processes, what it takes to create a safety-first culture and how to keep AGV/AMR systems efficient and aligned with human-led workflows. -
Automation Predicted to Reduce Workplace Injuries by More Than 161,000 Annually
The predicted automation of 30% of tasks by 2030 is expected to reduce U.S. workplace injuries by 5.9%. -
Safety: Understanding SIL, Cpt and PFDavg
Some facts about proof test coverage and how it affects safety integrity level calculations. -
Moore Industries’ SLA Multiloop and Multifunctional Safety Logic Solver and Alarm Earns Factory Mutual Approval
Moore Industries’ SLA Multiloop and Multifunctional Safety Logic Solver and Alarm has earned Factory Mutual approval as a Non-Incendive instrument. -
What Are the Aspects of Safe Automation Systems?
In our latest ISA Mentor Program blog, Mike Laspisa asks: What are the aspects of safe automation systems? -
Complying with IEC 61511 Operation and Maintenance Requirements
Testing and documenting the performance of an SIS is an essential part of ensuring it can fulfill its designed functional safety requirements. This article comes from the May 2021 issue of Intech Focus: Process Control and Safety. -
The Top 7 Operational Technology Patch Management Best Practices
Introduction – A Risk Based Approach to Patch Management -
The Role of Standards in Functional Safety
Internationally recognized functional safety standards have been widely adopted to increase equipment/process safety. Compliance needs continuous focus. -
What Are the Opportunities for Nonlinear Control in Process Industry Applications?
MPC for batch operations can be achieved by translation of controlled variable from batch temperature or composition with a unidirectional response to the slope of the batch profile. -
How to Implement Effective Safety Instrumented Systems for Process Automation Applications
Systematic failures in industrial systems are best addressed through the implementation of a protective management system, which overlays a quality management system with a project development process -
How Procedure-Based Automation Can Enhance Alarm Management
Learn about the methods of state-based control as it applies to models defined by ISA-106. -
AutoQuiz: What Are Multiple Independent Protection Layers in Relation to Industrial Safety?
A consequence of the concept of multiple independent protection suggests minimization of risk occurs when safety instrumented systems are completely independent from process control systems. -
Book Excerpt + Q&A: Safety Instrumented Systems, A Life-Cycle Approach
This book leverages the performance and documentation requirements defined in the ISA/IEC 61511 functional process safety standard coupled with the authors' nearly 80 years of safety system experience -
Webinar Recording: Strategy, Tactics, and Tools for the Safety Lifecycle
Learn how one manufacturing organization approached the challenge of implementing and complying with the ISA84 Safety Lifecycle in existing facilities by adopting new management practices and software -
AutoQuiz: Failures of Complex Systems in SIS Design and SIL Selection
A fault tree analysis begins with the "top event," which is the result of a number of basic events that contribute to, or initiate, the system failure. -
How Much Risk Can Safety Alarms Reduce?
When implementing ANSI/ISA-18.2, Management of Alarm Systems for the Process Industries, engineers should consider all alarms, including basic process control, safety instrumented systems, fire and ga
