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Making Use Of Leading And Lagging Indicators – Are You Using These For Functional Safety?
May 31, 2017[:en][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Some of you reading this may not be aware or familiar with the terms “leading” and “lagging” indicators, when applied to Functional Safety. The concept isn’t new but does provide significant benefit when applying this to Functional Safety because, if used correctly, these indicators can help significantly improve performance. Let’s not forget that the IEC61511 standard is […]
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exida Cyber Blog Series: 02 – Does your position qualify as a Cyber Sensitive position?
May 24, 2017[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]That’s a great question. What is a Cyber sensitive position? A cyber sensitive position is a subset of a job position description that can be graded as Ultra, High, Medium or Low sensitivity with respect to cybersecurity assets and associated potential consequences that may impact an operating company. What this means is that more and more companies are qualifying their operating […]
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Why Is Functional Safety An Important Piece of Process Safety Management?
May 17, 2017[:en][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]It’s interesting to note that with the release of the 2016 edition of IEC61511, there’s more emphasis being placed on the need for better functional safety management. Having taught many courses on Functional Safety over the past few years, I find that most of the people attending the courses have very little understanding of the importance (and […]
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exida Cyber Blog Series: 01 – What is Cyber Hygiene?
May 12, 2017[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]exida would like to welcome our new director of cybersecurity services Dave Gunter. Dave will be taking us through a multi part blog series based on general cybersecurity evolving into how it pertains to your industrial work environment and what you should do to protect your company and its assets from cyber criminals. Let’s Get Started […]
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Contractor Cybersecurity Training – Why Do You Need It?
Aug 31, 2017[:en][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Today, we are going to talk a little bit about Contractor Cyber Training. What’s in a good contractor cyber training course? Why do you need one? Why aren’t policies, practices, and contract language enough? Today’s operators of industrial production facilities frequently utilize contract labor. This means a number of contractors have physical access to […]
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Random Versus Systematic Faults: What’s The Difference?
Oct 19, 2017[:en][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]I saw and responded to a LinkedIn discussion on this very issue, where someone had asked “if I have a misaligned limit switch that fails dangerously, then is it random or systematic?”. This is an intriguing question because many view human error as being systematic and, whereas, this is sometimes true, it’s not always the […]