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The Benefits of exida’s Site Safety Index (SSI)

New reports out now are claiming that an aging, failed elbow pipe appears to be the initial cause of a June 21 fire and subsequent explosions that injured five people at the largest oil refinery on the East Coast, federal investigators said. The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board released a preliminary factual findings...

Back to Basics 17 – PFH (Probability of Failure on Demand per Hour)

PFH (The Probability of Failure on Demand per Hour)  is the probability that a system will fail dangerously, and not be able to perform its safety function when required. PFH can be determined as a probability or maximum probability over a time period of an hour. IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 use PFH as the system metric upon which...

Evaluating Alarm System Performance in a Multi-Operator Control Room

Situation: There are three operator consoles (positions) in the same control room. There is one general alarm horn that goes off whenever a new alarm comes in from any one of the three consoles. The horn draws the attention of each of the three operators. Question: How are the ISA-18.2 KPIs for alarm system performance applied when...

exida User Conference 2018

Join us in this conference to stay updated on the new release of exida's powerful tool - exSILentia version 4 and use this opportunity to meet and engage in fruitful discussions with our exida team of experts! Conference dates: 14-15 November 2018 Pre-Conference courses dates: 12-13 November 2018 Location: Resorts World Sentosa, Singapore More information...

Process Safety Consultant

exida is the global functional safety market leader, offering products and services to the Oil & Gas, Petro-Chemical, Power and Automotive industries. To support the exida Asia Pacific team, we are looking for a PROCESS SAFETY CONSULTANT to: Perform Functional Safety Assessments Lead and Facilitate HAZOP and LOPA Workshops Execute SIS Design activities and SIL...

exida Global Staff Brushes Up on IACS Cybersecurity Solutions at Cyber Week 2018

April 16-20, 2018 was exida cyber week at our US headquarters. exida experts from all over the globe including Singapore, India, South Africa, and Mexico met to brush up on our current IACS cybersecurity solutions and enjoy some fun team building activities.  They also completed exida Academy's CS 102 - Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Cybersecurity Lifecycle course and...

Dreaming of a Better Tomorrow?

When I was a kid, I liked watching the Jetsons.  I felt certain that by the year 2000 we’d all be enjoying those flying saucers and futuristic homes.  Imagine my disappointment that in 2018 we still drive on 4 wheels… and my home cannot elevate itself above bad weather… and I still don’t have a...

ABB Ability™ Symphony® Plus achieves IEC 62443 Certification from exida

ABB’s flagship SD Series HPC800 controller, part of the ABB Ability™ Symphony® Plus portfolio, received IEC 62443 certification, which recognizes that the controller has met the requirements for the software development lifecycle assessment, functional security assessment and communications robustness testing. The certification awarded by exida demonstrates compliance to the IEC 62443 cyber security standard for industrial automation and control systems. Compliance...

exida Presenting and Exhibiting at AIChE’s 2018 Spring Meeting & 14th GCPS

exida will be presenting and exhibiting at the AIChE’s 2018 Spring Meeting & 14th GCPS to be held April 22-26, 2018 in Orlando,FL. Stop by Booth #605 during exhibit hours. This year we will be showcasing some of our newest products and services that reduce engineering time and minimize risk. Move data from PHA high risk hazard scenarios into...

SIL Verification Presentation to be Given in Australia

Eric Scharpf will be presenting the topic ‘SIL Verification: Getting It Right and Making It Better’, organized by IICA. The presentation will be held on 10 April 2018 in Sydney. Presentation Overview: This session will first look into the critical considerations and assumptions behind the main AS 61511 SIL Verification requirements of PFDavg, Fault Tolerance...
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