- by Iwan van Beurden, CFSE
- Monday, July 23, 2012
- Software
Analysis and Realization: Done. Let’s Start Operation… What’s Next?
Congratulations! You’ve completed the Analysis and Realization phases of the Safety Lifecycle, and are about to begin the Operation phase, but what’s next? Well obviously you need to do proof testing, but is there anything else? You may be familiar with the figure below:
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- by Iwan van Beurden, CFSE
- Thursday, August 23, 2012
- Functional Safety
Super-Duper Logic Solver Data; So what?
I am working on a SIL verification project and just had to share some observations.
For this project, the customer decided to choose a logic solver for which no data is listed in the exida Safety Equipment Reliability Handbook (SERH). One could…
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- by Iwan van Beurden, CFSE
- Tuesday, January 17, 2012
- Certification
Why am I not on “the list?”
Many will agree that exida's Safety Equipment Reliability Handbook (SERH) and the Safety Automation Equipment List (SAEL) are very useful tools for choosing products to use in safety instrumented systems. The SAEL shows a product’s IEC 61508 and cyber security…
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