There is no shortage of drivers who try to “beat the red light,” or roll through a stop sign. I see it every day (luckily BEFORE they hit my side door). Even though everyone knows, or should know the “rules of the road,” there are some folks who are…
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Entries tagged with: Functional Safety
- by John Yozallinas, CFSE
- Thursday, July 13, 2017
- Functional Safety
Making the Most of Customer Feedback
Your organization gets information, feedback, and requests from customers all the time. It’s up to you to do some preliminary analysis and determine what the customer really wants. Do they want to buy something? Do they want to complain about something? Do they have a need for which no…
- by Dr. William Goble, CFSE
- Thursday, November 17, 2011
- Functional Safety
NEVER Use B10 Values for PFDavg Calculations
The machine safety community has defined a number called the “B10 number.” It is a measure of time where 10% of a population of devices should have failed. Generally it is a measure of expected end of life or “useful life” as defined by the reliability engineering community.
The…
- by Steve Gandy, CFSP
- Thursday, October 24, 2019
- Functional Safety
PES Refinery – CSB Initial Report
I'm sure you are aware of the preliminary findings of the Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) Refinery explosion. If not, have a look at the video below. It is very interesting, but sad. I think we all can learn a lot from it.