[:en][vc_row][vc_column][us_single_image image=”612″ size=”full”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]exida has received ANSI (American National Standards Institute) accreditation for Certification Body scope extensions for the IEC 62443 cybersecurity standards. Four new schemes have been defined.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column_inner][/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]New schemes include: The eSDC (exida Security Device Certification) which covers control, network, platform, and application “devices” as defined in IEC 62443. The eSDP (exida Security Development Process) […]
[:en][vc_row][vc_column][us_single_image image=”631″ size=”full”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]The exida IEC 61508 Certification Program was established in 2005 in response to demand primarily from end users in the process industries and manufacturers of instrumentation products. There was a need to provide a higher quality of technical expertise with effective and responsive service. exida is an accredited Certification Body (CB) authorized to […]
[:en][vc_row][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text] 50 Indonesian Oil & Gas/Petrochemical companies attended an event organized by exida Asia Pacific in Jakarta on November 24, 2017. Mr. Paul Chan from exida Asia Pacific presented two topics – “Overview of exSILentia Safety Lifecycle Suite” and “Seven Steps to an Effective Alarm Management Program”. During this event, exida showcased their newest products […]
[:en][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Have you ever wondered why some dangerous failures are classified as undetected and others are classified as detective? Aren’t dangerous failures all dangerous? Why do we classify them differently? Let’s say we have a plant that is running in normal operation mode and the system needs to trip. The safety function of this system is […]
[:en][vc_row][vc_column][us_single_image image=”16847″ size=”full”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]Safety Instrumented Function Verification: The Three Barriers The three constraints (systematic capability constraint, architectural constraint, and probabilistic performance metric constraint) that are implied by requirements per international safety standards IEC 61511 [1] and IEC 61508 [2] to determine the safety integrity level (SIL) of a safety instrumented function (SIF) are described and discussed. […]
[:en][vc_row][vc_column][us_single_image image=”1115″ size=”full”][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text]exida is pleased to announce the addition of Jonathan Moore to our North American team. Jonathan joins exida as the Director of Advanced Systems and has over 20 years of automotive and robotics experience in systems engineering, failure mode avoidance, and standards based software development. He joins from Autonomous Solutions Inc., where he was […]