It’s an interesting question and one I asked myself. For any engineer and/or professional working in the controls business or process industries where safety-related equipment is required, it is essential (per IEC61511-1 Clause 5.2.2: Organization and Resources) to prove competency to carry out any safety-lifecycle activities. So what does…
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Entries tagged with: PFD
- by Steve Gandy, CFSP
- Tuesday, October 29, 2013
- Certification
Obtaining My CFSE/CFSP Certification: Why Bother?
- by Steve Gandy, CFSP
- Monday, April 28, 2014
- Software
Still Using Excel to do PFD Calculations?
It’s very interesting to me to find that people are still using excel to do PFD calculations. Whereas this is probably okay for simple single element architectures (i.e. single sensor, single logic solver and single final element), it becomes extremely complicated when dealing with redundant architectures. Moreover, for performing…