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A Ball Valve with Safe Failures! Really?

Look at the photo. What do you see? I see a ball valve with:

  • a valve body
  • a ball
  • a stem that can turn the ball

What are the high level potential failures for a ball valve?

Using SILSafeData to Check Your Failure Data Source
  • by Dr. William Goble, CFSE
  • Monday, October 29, 2018
  • Certification

Using SILSafeData to Check Your Failure Data Source

www.SILSafeData.com is a complimentary resource that contains the upper and lower bounds failure rates for many categories of automation equipment, as well as the methodology used by exida to derive the numbers.  

Many of you have asked how to…

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