- 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 Hal Thomas, CFSE
- Tuesday, August 30, 2011
- Functional Safety
PHA to LOPA: Part II
In some cases the screening methods will indicate that a SIF is needed. These screening methods can be designed to determine how many orders of magnitude risk reduction is needed, allowing a required SIL to be documented for a particular SIF. The screening…
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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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