The adoption of the functional safety standards continues to gain momentum in turbine applications. Both industrial and power turbine sites are now requiring compliance to IEC 61511. This blog will review both technical requirements and market trends related to functional safety system design. Market trends will cover which standards…
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- by Chris O'Brien, CFSE
- Tuesday, October 20, 2015
- Certification
Best Practices in Achieving Functional Safety in Turbine Applications - Part 1
- by Chris O'Brien, CFSE
- Tuesday, November 03, 2015
- Functional Safety
Best Practices in Achieving Functional Safety in Turbine Applications - Part 2
The adoption of the functional safety standards continues to gain momentum in turbine applications. Both industrial and power turbine sites are now requiring compliance to IEC 61511. This blog will review both technical requirements and market trends related to functional safety system design. Market trends will cover which standards…
- by Chris O'Brien, CFSE
- Thursday, January 07, 2016
- Certification
Best Practices in Achieving Functional Safety in Turbine Applications - Part 3
The adoption of the functional safety standards continues to gain momentum in turbine applications. Both industrial and power turbine sites are now requiring compliance to IEC 61511. This blog will review both technical requirements and market trends related to functional safety system design. Market trends will cover which standards…
- by Chris O'Brien, CFSE
- Thursday, March 29, 2018
- Certification
Functional Safety Assessment of Valve Assemblies (Part 1)
In this blog series, I will cover the emerging trends in the valve assembly market, how these trends relate to the IEC 61511 requirements, and what's in a final element. When you look at the different devices that go into some of these safety systems, the final element becomes…
- by Chris O'Brien, CFSE
- Friday, September 07, 2018
- Functional Safety
Functional Safety Assessment of Valve Assemblies (Part 3)
In Part 1, we covered the emerging trends in the valve assembly market, how these trends relate to IEC 61511 requirements, and the anatomy of final elements. In Part 2, we discussed the need to show requirements traceability down through the design of the safety instrumented function…
- by Chris O'Brien, CFSE
- Friday, January 17, 2014
- Certification
Product Stewardship and Engineering Ethics
Recently I witnessed something I never thought I would in the engineering profession: I was told by a system designer that even though they knew the safety reliability data for one device was too optimistic, they were going to use it because it meant they didn’t need to…