SIS-Health Monitoring is a set of technology and services designed to help industrial professionals reduce unnecessary maintenance and engineering of safety instrumented systems (SIS) and minimize ...

This new version, ProSafe-RS R3.01, features input modules that can directly receive voltage signals from temperature sensors as well as software that restricts the operations performed by individual ...

Based on the foundational IEC 61508 standard’s essential requirements, high-performance supervisory circuits can facilitate functional-safety compliance in safety instrumented systems and other ...

To improve the safety of the operating environment, a holistic method for defining and evaluating the systems that aid an operator with the safe operation of a process unit is required. This approach ...

ISA defines an alarm as an audible or visible means of indicating to the operator an equipment malfunction, process deviation, or abnormal condition requiring a timely response. A safety alarm is ...

Yokogawa Electric Corp. reported Apr. 8 that its integrated control and safety system, consisting of Centum VP production ...

prevent single failures or anticipated events from escalating into plant shutdowns, trips, or accidents endangering plant equipment, personnel, and the public. Typical examples include feedwater and ...

A relatively new cyberattack threat activity group dubbed “XENOTIME” is intent on compromising and disrupting industry safety instrumented systems globally, and cybersecurity experts are warning it is ...

AREVA NP supplied Rosatom with its safety instrumentation and control (I&C) system for its installation within unit 1 of the Novovoronezh-2*Russian nuclear power plant, which has been connected to the ...

This 5-day course provides an overview of electrical power generation and distribution, process and safety systems instrumentation, and control strategies and configurations. The focus is on ...

The introduction of process safety system–specific malware into the manufacturing world in 2017 intensified the discussion around the convergence of safety and cybersecurity. If a cyberattack could ...

A system that protects a manufacturing or operating process. Conforming to the IEC 61511 or 61508 standards, such a system is designed to shut itself down or change to a reduced operational state in ...