- by Iwan van Beurden, CFSE
- Friday, April 15, 2011
- Certification
Functional Safety and Taxes: Are you an expert?
Today, April 15th, is tax-day in the US. Ok, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has given us a few extra days this year (the tax filing deadline is not until April 18th).
There are a lot of similarities between how you do your taxes and how you handle…
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- by Dr. William Goble, CFSE
- Friday, May 04, 2012
- Functional Safety
I Don’t Want No D*** Diagnostics!
After a false trip incident, I heard a control engineer express his displeasure with the automatic diagnostics in a new safety rated transmitter. The transmitter diagnostics were annunciated by sending the analog current out of range. In this case, the current went to 3.6 milliamps. The problem was that…
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