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Alarm Management


Alarm Management Lifecycle

Data Visualization for Alarm Rationalization posted: 2023-01-03
Comparing Data Management Lifecycle in Data Science with Performance Standards posted: 2022-09-22
The 5 whys in Data Science and Alarm Management posted: 2022-07-28
Alarm System Auditing and Enforcement – The Why and the How posted: 2020-10-08
HMI Design to Improve Operator Response to Alarms posted: 2019-10-24
Management of Change For Alarm Rationalization posted: 2019-09-25
Drowning in Alarm Floods? Learn how Automatic Alarm Flood Suppression Can Help posted: 2019-03-07
Maximizing the Reliability of Operator Response to Alarms posted: 2017-05-04
Understanding the Alarm Management Lifecycle of ISA-18.2/IEC 62682 posted: 2015-02-26
Financial Benefits of Creating an Effective Alarm Management Program posted: 2014-11-06

Alarm Management Program

Alarm Management: Getting the Most Out of your Yokogawa Control System posted: 2021-04-04
Impact of Human Factors on Operator Response to Alarm posted: 2021-03-25
Alarm Management and ISA-18.2 / IEC 62682 – How Do I Get Started? posted: 2018-10-11
Alarm Shelving - Relieve the Symptoms of Nuisance Alarms and create a Peaceful Control Room posted: 2018-08-09
Seven Steps to an Effective Alarm Management Program posted: 2017-09-14
Alarm Management 101: Everything You Want to Know, But Are Afraid to Ask posted: 2016-06-23
Master the Basics of Alarm Management: A Review of the Best Practices in ISA-TR18.2.3-2015 posted: 2016-02-04
DeltaV Alarm Management Solutions: Following the Alarm Management Lifecycle posted: 2014-07-23
Going Green: Alarm Management for Greenfield Projects posted: 2014-05-15

Alarm Philosophy

Do Bow Ties Have a Place in Alarm Management? posted: 2020-04-23
The Philosophy Behind Effective Alarm Management posted: 2020-03-19
Seven Steps to a Peaceful Control Room posted: 2018-10-26
Nuisance Alarms – A menace to the Operator posted: 2017-03-23
Alarm Classification – Not all alarms are created equal! posted: 2016-12-16
Master the Destiny of Your Alarm System with a Master Alarm Database posted: 2015-06-08
How to Create an Alarm Philosophy Document posted: 2013-12-05

Alarm Rationalization

Rationalize Your Alarm Management Problems Away posted: 2020-12-23
The Keys to a Successful Remote Alarm Rationalization Workshop posted: 2020-12-04

Safety Related Alarms

Safety Alarms: At the Intersection of Alarm Management and Functional Safety posted: 2018-03-21
Benchmarking Industry Practices for the Use of Alarms as Safeguards and Layers of Protection posted: 2013-12-05
Making the Most of Alarms as a Layer of Protection posted: 2013-12-05

Cybersecurity Certification


IEC 62443 Certification Process

NIST 800-53 or IEC 62443, which standard is right for me? posted: 2024-10-18
Lessons from ISA / IEC 62443-2-1 Assessments posted: 2024-03-21
Getting started on Integrator Cybersecurity Certification posted: 2021-07-06
IEC 62443 - An Introduction to exida Cybersecurity Certification Programs posted: 2018-06-01
The Evolving IEC 62443 Cybersecurity Certification posted: 2017-12-08

IEC 62443 Development Process

IEC 62443 and Agile / Scrum posted: 2019-07-18
A Common Development Process for IEC 61508 and IEC 62443 posted: 2019-05-31
Tools for Functional Safety (IEC 61508) and Cybersecurity (IEC 62443) posted: 2018-05-24

Personnel Competency Certification

CACE – IEC 62443 Personnel Automation Cybersecurity Path posted: 2018-07-20
exida Automation Cybersecurity (ACS) Certificate Program posted: 2015-07-15
Why Become a CACE or CACS? posted: 2015-05-06

Software

IEC62443: Attention all Software Development Experts! posted: 2018-11-08

Cybersecurity System Lifecycle


Cybersecurity Maintenance / Incident Response

Cybersecurity Incident Response - When Disaster Strikes, How Will You Respond? posted: 2020-08-05
Cybersecurity Monitoring and Metrics - “You Can’t Manage What You Can’t Measure” Continuously? posted: 2020-07-09
Commissioning Barrier Devices posted: 2014-06-04

Cybersecurity Risk Assessment

Pragmatic Cybersecurity for Asset Owners Considering IEC 62443 posted: 2023-11-14
Using exSILentia Cyber for Cybersecurity Risk Assessments posted: 2023-06-16
Should my Initial Cybersecurity Risk Assessment Consider Non-hackable Protections? posted: 2023-05-26
Should Cybersecurity Risk Assessments Consider Likelihood? posted: 2021-07-30
How can I use my PHA to Streamline Cybersecurity Risk Assessment? posted: 2021-04-30
Learning from the Florida Water Hack posted: 2021-02-25
IEC61511 and Cybersecurity: Are Your Safety & Control Systems Really Protected? posted: 2019-09-19
Cyber Risk Assessments and Security Level Verification: Security Level Verification (Part 3 of 3) posted: 2018-12-13
Cyber Risk Assessments and Security Level Verification: Detailed Risk Assessments (Part 2 of 3) posted: 2018-11-29
Leveraging IEC 62443 Security Level (SL) Requirements to Define IACS Cybersecurity Metrics posted: 2018-10-25
High-Level Risk Assessments using exSILentia Cyber posted: 2018-10-09
Cyber Risk Assessments and Security Level Verification: High-Level Risk Assessments (Part 1 of 3) posted: 2018-09-20
Managing Cybersecurity Risks in Wireless Control Networks posted: 2018-08-23
Performing Cyber Risk Assessments using exSILentia posted: 2018-06-14
Safety / Cybersecurity Lifecycle Overview Part 4 (Entering the Lifecycle) posted: 2016-11-03
The 7 Things Every Plant Manager Should Know About Control System Security posted: 2013-12-05

Integrated System Cybersecurity

Integrated System Cybersecurity: Understanding and Applying IEC 62443-3-3 posted: 2019-07-12
Integration Cybersecurity: Understanding and Applying IEC 62443-2-4 posted: 2019-02-27

System Cybersecurity Management

New Year’s Resolution: Plan for OT Cybersecurity posted: 2023-01-22
How does the MITRE ATT&CK framework align with Cyber PHA? posted: 2022-08-29
What is Cybersecurity Hygiene, and How Do I Implement It? posted: 2021-10-01
Defining Industrial Cybersecurity Incidents posted: 2021-01-22
How is Cybersecurity Changing Process Safety? posted: 2020-10-23
How Can Templates Lead to Improved Cybersecurity Policies and Procedures? posted: 2020-09-25
Why is it important to conduct an Industrial Cybersecurity Gap Assessment? posted: 2020-05-15
How Do I "Manage" my Cybersecurity Management System? posted: 2020-02-14
The Cybersecurity Lifecycle (IEC 62443) and exSILentia Cyber posted: 2020-01-17
IT and OT Cybersecurity, Two Sides of the Same Coin? posted: 2019-03-21
Preventing Cyber-attacks by following Practical Guidance in IEC 62443 posted: 2018-09-07
Integration of Automation Lifecycles posted: 2017-12-20
Industrial Automated Control System (IACS) Cybersecurity Program Management (IEC 62443) posted: 2017-01-19
Lessons Learned From Actual Control System Security Incidents and Assessments posted: 2013-12-05

Failure Rate Data


Basic Training

Back To Basics – Getting to Know λ (Failure Rates) posted: 2020-07-16
What’s in a Failure’s Name? Random, Systematic, or Both? posted: 2018-04-20

Quality / Credibility

Getting Good Failure Rate Data (IEC 61511:2016) posted: 2016-11-17
Mandatory Requirements for a Credible Failure Rate Prediction Method posted: 2016-07-18
Validation of Given Failure Rate Data for Process Industry Applications posted: 2016-05-04
Failure Rate Classification-Safe or Dangerous: How to Use Fail Low and Fail High Failures posted: 2016-01-07
The exida FMEDA Process - Accurate Failure Data for the Process Industries posted: 2014-09-17
Comparing Failure Rate Data posted: 2014-07-03

FMEA/FMEDA


Basic Training

Using a Spreadsheet to do FMEDA posted: 2023-04-27
What is an FMEDA? posted: 2023-04-20

FMEDA Methods

Faster, Better FMEDA – Using ARCHx to Get Needed Input Information posted: 2024-10-10
Faster, Better FMEDA – The Functional Failure Mode Process posted: 2024-09-12
Validating the results of an FMEDA posted: 2023-05-15
Predicting “Proof Test Coverage” with an FMEDA posted: 2023-05-04
Predicting “Useful Life” with an FMEDA posted: 2023-04-28
Using FMEDA to Predict Electronic Design Failure Rates posted: 2022-08-18
Failure Rate Analysis Paralysis posted: 2022-05-09
SRA: Safety Reliability Analysis – Do You Engineer Above and Beyond? posted: 2020-03-12
The exida FMEDA Process - Accurate Failure Data for the Process Industries posted: 2014-09-17

FMEDA Tools

A Design Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (DFMEA) for Functional Safety posted: 2024-09-26
The Environmental Impact on Failure Rates - Getting better FMEDA Results posted: 2024-09-05
The FMEA to FMEDA Process – Better Results, Less Hours posted: 2023-10-26
FMEA – Instant Failure Modes posted: 2023-10-12
Using an FMEDA Tool - FMEDAx posted: 2023-05-18
FMEDA Tips and Techniques posted: 2023-05-11
Component Data Requirements for an FMEDA posted: 2023-05-05
Reduce Cost & Time to Market by Improving FMEDA predictions with new Component Reliability Database posted: 2021-08-22
Failure Data Prediction using FMEDA for a Type A electronic device posted: 2021-06-10

Next Generation FMEA

A Streamline FMEA - Microcomputer Example Demo posted: 2023-11-03
Streamlining Integration Test Plans during FMEA posted: 2023-10-19
Using a Spreadsheet to do an FMEA posted: 2023-10-05
FMEA RPN Numbers – Help or Hurt? posted: 2023-09-22
Optimizing the Development Process with OEMx posted: 2023-04-06

Functional Safety Certification


IEC 61508 Certification

System Assessment and Certification of HIPPS, Turbines, and other Bespoke Systems posted: 2024-11-20
Common Questions and Best Practice for a Robotics Startup posted: 2023-12-05
Robotics Functional Safety 101 posted: 2020-12-11
IEC61508 and IEC62443 – Molding Certification around YOU posted: 2020-07-24
eRAVA​: exida Remote Actuated Valve Assembly ​- Final Element Certification​ posted: 2020-02-25
My TOP 3 List (For Certification) posted: 2019-12-06
Choosing the Best Functional Safety and Cybersecurity Certification Path posted: 2019-11-15
How exida is Changing the Functional Safety and IACS Cybersecurity Industry posted: 2019-07-24
How do I get a SIL level for my PLC? (Logic Solver Certification) posted: 2019-03-28
Is IEC 61508 for Mechanical Devices? posted: 2019-02-14
My Motor Controller is Certified … or is it? posted: 2018-12-14
Integrated Final Element Certification posted: 2018-11-08
The Optimal SIL Certification Path for all Manufacturers posted: 2018-03-15
Decoding the exida Certificate (2017) posted: 2017-08-22
Evaluating a Functional Safety Certificate: What It All Means posted: 2017-07-13
New to SIL Certification? posted: 2017-04-07
IEC 61508: SIL Certification Expectations posted: 2016-04-22
Understanding the Value of IEC 61508 Product Certification posted: 2016-02-11
exida: A Different Certification Scheme posted: 2015-03-06

IEC 61508 Development Process

A Common Development Process for IEC 61508 and IEC 62443 posted: 2019-05-31
How Using Templates Can Lead to Improved Functional Safety Management Plans posted: 2019-05-23
Tools for Functional Safety (IEC 61508) and Cybersecurity (IEC 62443) posted: 2018-05-24
An Introduction to Universal Modeling Language (UML) posted: 2014-06-26

IEC 61508 Mechanical Device Certification

WARNING: Personnel Certification Concerns posted: 2019-10-11
What is IEC 61508 and what does it mean for mechanical devices like a valve? posted: 2016-12-09
IEC 61508: Certification of Mechanical Safety Equipment posted: 2016-06-09
Functional Safety Assessment of Valve Assemblies posted: 2016-02-01
Mechanical Product IEC 61508 Certification posted: 2013-12-06
Final Elements and the IEC 61508 Certification posted: 2013-12-06

ISO 26262 Certification

DFA Method for Analyzing Failures posted: 2024-01-23

Machinery Directive

Navigating the Machinery Directive and the Role of Notified Bodies posted: 2023-10-31
Tackling Functional Safety Management for Machinery posted: 2023-08-17

Personnel Competency Certification

Personnel Certification – Preparation is KEY posted: 2022-07-20
The Rise of Personnel Competency posted: 2020-06-19
Staying Sharp. Online Learning Solutions in the Age of Covid-19 posted: 2020-04-24
START to FINISH – The Certification Online Exam Process Explained posted: 2020-04-03
Psychometrics – Another Reason CFSE remains the Gold Standard posted: 2020-02-28
IEC61511 and IEC62443 Personnel Competency FAQ posted: 2018-09-14
Why the FSP Certificate Program is Important posted: 2017-09-22
Personnel Certification: Going for GOLD in the New Year posted: 2017-01-27
exida Functional Safety Practitioner (FSP) Certificate Program posted: 2015-04-20

Software

The Customer Journey to Safe Machine Learning posted: 2024-04-02
exida’s Pathway to Safe Machine Learning (ML) posted: 2023-04-13

Functional Safety Lifecycle


Basic Training

The Need to Measure SIS Performance posted: 2023-01-27
Better Safety – Adding automatic diagnostics to Embedded Systems posted: 2021-01-11
IEC 61511 and Failure Rates posted: 2020-08-27
Back To Basics – Systematic Capability, Architectural Constraints and PFD? Oh my! posted: 2019-11-11
Introducing the Back to Basics Functional Safety Series posted: 2019-06-07
Key Time Parameters in Functional Safety posted: 2019-03-07
Back to Basics: All About Failure Rates posted: 2019-02-08
How Do Architectural Constraints For a Device Affect Its Safety? posted: 2018-01-26
IEC 61511 & Cybersecurity posted: 2016-10-18
Functional Safety 101: Understanding the IEC Functional Safety Standards (2016) posted: 2016-07-22
Understanding the How, Why, and What of a Safety Integrity Level (SIL) posted: 2016-02-19
What Architectural Constraints Does My Device Meet, and What Does it Mean? posted: 2016-01-21
Introduction to Process Hazard Analysis using HAZOP posted: 2014-04-24

Failure Rate Data – Quality / Credibility

Getting Credible Failure Data for SIF Design Verification posted: 2023-02-16
Understanding Published Equipment Failure Rates posted: 2021-10-21
Safety Instrumented Function Verification – Essential Engineering Duties posted: 2021-03-11
What Does “… failures which are the responsibility of the manufacturer were examined” Mean ? posted: 2019-09-12
Getting Failure Rate Data for Motor Controllers posted: 2019-08-22
So What? My Failure Rates Are Low? posted: 2019-04-11
Does Having an Integrated Valve Assembly Actually Create Lower Failure Rates? posted: 2019-03-22
How Safe Are You? The Importance of Functional Safety and Realistic Failure Rates posted: 2018-12-06
Using Manufacturer Warranty Failure Data (Not) posted: 2018-08-17
Realistic Failure Rate Data – the Calibrated FMEDA™ posted: 2018-05-18
Evaluating Manufacturer’s Certificates and Failure Rates (2017) posted: 2017-09-07

Functional Safety Management

exSILentia Feature Spotlight: Project Merge posted: 2024-05-02
Comparing Data Management Lifecycle in Data Science with Performance Standards posted: 2022-09-22
The Importance of Functional Safety Assessments posted: 2022-09-12
Functional Safety Management Requirements for Engineering Cos. and Integrators posted: 2020-07-22
Why Bother With Functional Safety Assessments? posted: 2019-12-06
Process Safety: Why it’s important to consider more than one lifecycle posted: 2019-07-23
Safety Lifecycle Overview with exSILentia (Part 2) posted: 2019-06-23
2019 Resolution – Use exSILentia posted: 2019-01-04
What Really is Functional Safety Management? posted: 2018-11-02
Process and Design Safety Requirements Specifications Implementation in exSILentia posted: 2018-07-27
Functional Safety Management For Managers posted: 2018-06-01
exSILentia v4; What will happen to my exSILentia v3 files? posted: 2018-04-06
Integration of Automation Lifecycles posted: 2017-12-20
What is Safety Culture? posted: 2017-11-09
Improving Safety Lifecycle Data Flow Reduces Project Cost posted: 2017-07-28
Functional Safety Management Planning, Part 3 - Implementation, Operation and Beyond posted: 2017-07-19
Process and Design Safety Requirements Specifications Implementation in exSILentia posted: 2017-04-20
Reducing Project Lifecycle Cost with exSILentia® posted: 2017-03-20
Automatic Application Program Creation based on Conceptual Design Information posted: 2017-03-09
Functional Safety Management (FSM) for IEC 61511 posted: 2016-11-28

PFDavg / SIL Verification

How Does Mission Time Work with Proof Testing to Impact SIL Verification? posted: 2024-10-03
Safety Lifecycle Overview with exSILentia (Part 2) - Design and Implementation Phase (2023) posted: 2023-07-17
Accounting for Batch Operation in SIL verification posted: 2021-05-17
Expediting SIL Verification using exSILentia posted: 2020-11-23
How Final Element Design and Selection Relates to Overall SIF Performance and Cost posted: 2020-06-11
How to Model Your SIFs in SILver posted: 2019-06-13
exSILentia® SILver™ and the Data Core posted: 2018-03-30
It's All About PFDavg! posted: 2018-02-16
Introducing exSILentia® 4's new SILver™ Release posted: 2018-01-04
No Safe Failures For a Transmitter? posted: 2017-08-24
Calculating Unit MTTFS with exSILentia posted: 2017-06-16

Risk Analysis / SIL Selection

What Does Root Cause Analysis Mean? posted: 2024-02-27
Safety Lifecycle Overview with exSILentia Part 1: Analysis Phase posted: 2023-06-23
High and Continuous Demand LOPA Considerations posted: 2022-04-21
Should I Use a Task- or Equipment- Based Machine Risk Assessment? posted: 2022-01-24
Precision Risk Reduction posted: 2020-12-11
How a Bad PHA/LOPA Can Damage the Design of your Safety System posted: 2020-10-16
How to Complete a Successful Remote HAZOP posted: 2020-04-13
What-CHAZOP-macallit? posted: 2019-10-17
The Demand Debate! Low demand vs High demand mode of operation posted: 2018-03-27
Integrating PHA and LOPA - An exSILentia® Product Demo posted: 2016-12-01
SIL Selection Using exSILentia posted: 2015-11-05
Layer of Protection Analysis with LOPAx™ posted: 2015-04-30
SIL Verification Using exSILentia posted: 2014-04-30

Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS)

OPC (Open Platform Communications) and Safe Operation posted: 2021-11-05
Pipelines – Are You Really Protected? posted: 2021-06-11
Shared Components for SIS & BPCS – not a good idea posted: 2021-04-08
SIS Application Program: the Dos and Don’ts posted: 2020-12-16
Remote Actuated Valve Design – Adding Partial Valve Stroke Testing posted: 2020-10-01
How to Cause a False Trip with Your Final Element Design posted: 2020-09-17
Assessing Common Cause for BPCS Shared Components posted: 2020-08-12
Voting Configuration Decision Factors posted: 2020-07-28
What is Prior Use Justification? posted: 2020-06-25
Efficiently Configure your Safety PLC Application Program posted: 2019-12-02
Why People Dangerously Ignore Motor Controllers in a SIF posted: 2019-09-05
How to Effectively Use Certified Equipment in Fire and Gas Systems (Part 3: Gas Detection) posted: 2018-09-28
Final Elements 101 posted: 2018-07-09
IEC61511 Compliance - How to get Started posted: 2018-06-08
Making Use of Leading and Lagging Indicators posted: 2018-03-07
How to Effectively Use Certified Equipment in Fire and Gas Systems (Part 2: Flame Detection) posted: 2018-03-02
Automatic Configuration of Safety Logic with the DeltaV SIS Configurator posted: 2018-02-09
Mechanical Issues That Can Impact Your ESD posted: 2017-12-15
How to Effectively Use Certified Equipment in Fire and Gas Systems (Part 1) posted: 2017-09-28
Essential Steps in Designing and Implementing a Compliant Final Element posted: 2016-07-12

Operations & Maintenance


Field Failure Data Collection and Statistical Analysis

Collection of Safety Critical Data with SILstat posted: 2023-12-07
Field Data Collection Process Validation with Predictive Analytics posted: 2016-05-16
Optimal Field Failure Data Collection posted: 2016-03-10
Collecting Field Data Using SILStat™ posted: 2015-04-06
Introducing the SILStat Field Data Collection Program posted: 2014-05-07

Proof Test / Latent Fault Test

The Importance of Proof Testing posted: 2020-02-26
Proof Test Planning with exSILentia® posted: 2019-09-23
How Final Element Proof Test Can Affect Your Safety Instrumented Function (SIF) posted: 2019-08-15
Final Element Proof Tests posted: 2018-05-10
How Proof Test Coverage Affects PFDavg for a SIF posted: 2017-10-25
Are Your Safety Instrumented Systems Proof Tests Effective? posted: 2017-09-13

Site Safety

How Site Operations and Maintenance Impact Equipment Failure Rates posted: 2021-12-09
Impact of Improper Maintenance Practices posted: 2021-02-05
Do You Follow Good Site Safety Practices? posted: 2019-12-05
Site Safety Index: Which Site is Your Safest Plant? posted: 2019-04-12
IEC61511: Operations & Maintenance posted: 2018-02-07
Applications of Site Safety Index™ posted: 2016-04-04