Artículos Técnicos

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I. Artículos sobre ESD

ARQUITECTURAS

• Conventional PLC vs. Safety PLC. Controllers for Safety Instrumented Systems.

• What does proven in use imply?

IMPLEMENTACIÓN

• EPA Risk Management Plan Update and Resubmission

• Instrumentation and Control Mechanical Integrity Programs

• Coker Safety Initiative

• Understand the difference between Continuous Mode and Demand Mode Safety Instrumented Functions.

• OSHA Mechanical Integrity Requirements do NOT allow Breakdown Maintenance

• Instrument Air Pressure Can Cause Dangerous SIS Failure

• Ice Storms Cause Dangerous Failures of Solenoids with External Manual Latches

• A Database Approach to Safety Life Cycle

• Hydrocracker Safeguarding with SIS

• Implementing IEC61508 in the Process Industries

• Partial Valve Stroke Testing

• Reliability in Control Systems Software

• SIS Design Basis Revalidation

• Techniques for achieving reliability in safety PLC embedded software

• IPF Naming Conventions

• SRU Thermal Reactor Backflow Scenario

• SIL Verification of Motor Starters

• Separation of Basic Process Control and Safety

VALORACIÓN DE RIESGO

• Selecting Instrumentation Equipment for Safety Applications

• State of the Art Safety Verification

II. Artículos sobre Gas y Fuego

• Standard's use spreading, but confusion still surrounds FGS.

• Seminar: Industry Update - Safety Instrumented Fire and Gas Systems

• Seminar: Safety Instrumented Fire and Gas Systems

• UV/IR Detectors With 4-20ma (Stepped) Outputs

BMS

• Burner Management System Safety Integrity Level Selection

• Case Study: Safety Instrumented Burner Management System (SI-BMS)

• Is a Burner Management System a SIS?

• Follow the Safety Lifecycle for Burner Management Systems

• TAPPI Conference

• What’s the Safety Integrity Level of My Existing Burner Management System?

III. Artículos sobre Maquinaria

• Accurate Failure Metrics for Mechanical Instruments

• Development of a Mechanical Component Failure Database

• Identifying Required Safety Instrumented Functions for Life Safety Systems in the Hightech and Semiconductor Manufacturing Industries

• FMEDA Techniques for Mechanical Instrumentation

IV. Artículos sobre Normas

IEC

• 61508 and 61511; What Is an Operations Company Supposed to Do?

• C/C++ Coding Standard Recommendations for IEC 61508

• The Evolution of European Safety Standards

• IEC 61508 Overview Report

• Summary of Draft IEC 61511 Standard for Functional Safety: Safety Instrumented Systems for the Process Industry

• Open IEC 61508 Certification of Products

• Project Experience with IEC 61508 and its Consequences

• Real Time Operating Systems for IEC 61508

ISA

• ANSI/ISA84.00.01-2004 (IEC61511) Grandfather Clause

• Functional Safety Terms and Acronyms Glossary

• Industry Update: Safety Instrumented Burner Management Systems (SI- BMS)

• Safety Division Update: Safety Instrumented Burner Management Systems

V. Artículos sobre SIL

COMPROBACIÓN

• Safety Integrity Level Verification - Process and Problems

OBJETIVO

• Burner Management System Safety Integrity Level Selection

SAFETY ANALISIS

• Estimating the Common Cause Beta Factor

• FMEDA - Accurate Product Failure Metrics

• Getting Failure Rate Data

• Modeling and Analyzing the Effects of Periodic Inspection of the Performance of Safety Critical Systems

• Safety Analisis of Redundant SIF with Incomplete or Partial Testing

• Using Simulation to Characterize Common Cause

• What is PFDavg?

VI. Otros Artículos

PAUL GRUHN

• Bringing Innovations to Mainstream Markets

• Different SIL Selection Techniques Can Yield Significantly Different Answers

• Functional Safety Standards for Industry - Understanding ISA-84 Today and in the Future

• Underprotected for Overspeed. PGRM 1005

• TAPS - Upgrading at Alaska

• InTech - Three options for Control, Safety

• SIS Verification using Simplified Equations

• What SIS Reliability Models and Foreign Spies Have in Common

SIS TECH

• Achieve Continuous Safety Improvement

• Achieving Six Sigma Through Fault Tree Analysis

• An Alternative Approach to Wellhead Flowline Pressure Protection

• ANSI/ISA 84.00.01-2004 and Existing Safety Instrumented Systems

• Avoid Bad Engineering Practices: Safety Can Go Wrong Fast

• Bhopal: Could it happen again?

• “Bridging the Safe Automation Gap Part 1

• “Bridging the Safe Automation Gap Part 2

• Recommendations on the Design and Operation of Fuel Storage Sites

• Common Cause and Common Sense Designing Failure Out of Your SIS

• Continuous Improvement in SIS

• Differences Between IEC 61511 and ISA 84.01-1996

• Enhanced Risk Management at the Pasadena Plastics Complex

• Aplicando estándares SIS a Procesos de Coquización

• Estimation and Evaluation of Common Cause Failures

• Evolution of the Cookbook

• The Evolution of Plant Automation

• Fault Management Analysis

• Guidelines for Safe and Reliable Instrumented Protective Systems (IPS)

• HIPPS High Integrity Protective Systems

• High Integrity Protective Systems for New and Existing Vessels

• High Integrity Protective Systems for Reactive Processes

• IEC 61511 and the Capital Project Process

• Improve Facility SIS Performance and Reliability

• Introduction to Layers of Protection Analysis

• ISA 84 – The Standard for Safety Instrumented Systems

• Managing Risk Don't Fall Flat

• Managing Risk Improves Production

• Mejoramiento Continuo de los SIS

• Partial Stroke Testing of Valves

• Partial Stroke Testing of Valves - CE

• Partial Stroke Testing of Block Valves - IEH

• Random, Systematic, and Common Cause Failure: How do you manage them?

• Safety Instrumented Systems

• Understanding Safety Integrity Levels

• Software-Implemented Safety Logic

• User Approval of SIS Device

• Viewpoint on ISA TR84.0.02 – Simplified Methods and Fault Tree Analysis

• What Every Manager Should Know About The New SIS Standards