ISA recently published Safety Instrumented System Design: A Life-Cycle Approach by Paul Gruhn PE, CFSE, and Simon Lucchini, CFSE, MIEAust CPEng. In this Q&A feature, both authors highlight the focus, ...

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 ...

Expert insights reveal critical strategies for coordinating predictive maintenance with safety instrumented systems while maintaining compliance and preventing dangerous operational conflicts. Safety ...

Dr. Summers says ISA-84 has not simply rocked the world of instrumentation and controls; it has affected process safety strategies across most of the process industry. It spawned an entire industry of ...

Modern safety system in critical environment an evolving with IIoT & DCS-PLC convergence driven by IEC standards ensure fail-safe protection & asset integrity Safety systems are evolving from passive ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The need to replace and upgrade systems in continuous process industries is driving market growth, finds Frost & Sullivan SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Frost & Sullivan's recent ...

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 ...

No doubt it could have been far worse - even catastrophic. An apparent misstep by the attackers behind the malware now known as TRITON/TRISIS that was discovered embedded in a Schneider Electric ...

XENOTIME, a cyberthreat activity group thought responsible for TRISIS/TRITON malware attacks on safety instrumented systems (SIS) at an oil and gas Middle Eastern facility in 2017, has been probing ...