exida - Lifecycle Services
 

Lifecycle Services.

exida offers services, tools, and training to help organizations achieve safe operations, meet regulatory requirements, and deliver results.

Practice Areas

Ensuring that operations are safe, equipment is available, and operational goals are met is exida’s mission. We work closely with our customers to achieve high-impact, cost-effective solutions for their Alarm Management, Cybersecurity, and Functional Safety needs. As experts in safety, availability, and security, we bring a valuable perspective to the problems they are facing. 

Expertise and Insight

Clients rely on exida to provide deep technical expertise, which assures correct solutions to even the most challenging problem. As important to getting the answer is having the insight to implement it in the optimal way—one that is affordable and sustainable. By combining expertise and insight, exida will help you chart the right course and stay on track to meet your goals. 

Our unique perspective enables us to offer the groundbreaking 3D Gap Analysis: a comprehensive review of functional safety, alarm management, and cybersecurity lifecycle implementation within your organization or plant. We also provide a complete offering of lifecycle services, IEC 61508 and IEC 62443 certifications, as well as the market-leading exSILentia software suite. 

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Services

Alarm Rationalization

Alarm Management

  • Alarm Philosophy Development
  • Alarm Rationalization Ready
  • Alarm Rationalization
  • Advanced Alarm Design & Implementation
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ICS Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity

  • Cybersecurity Workshop
  • IEC 62443 Gap Analysis
  • High-Level Risk Assessment
  • Detailed Risk Assessment
  • Cybersecurity Vulnerability Assessments (CVA)
  • Cybersecurity Requirements Specification (CSRS)
  • Security Level (SL) Verification
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CFSE

Functional Safety

  • 3D Gap Analysis
  • Functional Safety Assessment
  • Process Hazard Analysis (PHA)
  • PHA Revalidation
  • Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA)
  • Consequence Analysis
  • SIL Selection
  • Safety Requirements Specification (SRS)
  • CHAZOP
  • SIL Determination
  • SIL Verification
  • Proof Test Generation
  • HIPPS Studies
  • Final Element Validation or Assessment
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What Our Customers Say

  • "exida provided a great cyber security overview to confirm our current procedures, while offering recommendations to make enhancements to keep current with industry standards."

    William Bunk, GSK

  • "The level of professionalism exhibited by exida is outstanding. Their ability to interpret IEC 61508 in terms of our project development process is invaluable."

    Eric Swanson - Honeywell

  • "exida provided an invaluable service to the Profire product development team in regards to training and upgrading existing processes. Interactions with the exida team were meaningful, educational, and productive."

    Curtis Dublanko - Profire Energy Design Engineer

  • “exida demands a high level of quality and care in both processes and documentation. We selected them due to their technical expertise in functional safety.”

    Dave Denison, Emerson Project Manager

  • “We chose exida because they have in depth knowledge of IEC 61508 that goes beyond the others we were considering. exida showed us a path through this complex standard.”

    Bob Masi, Detcon President

3D Gap Analysis

exida has created a 3D Gap AnalysisSM assessment to efficiently evaluate how your organization complies with the Functional Safety, Cybersecurity, and Alarm Management (IEC 61511, IEC 62443, and IEC 62682/ISA-18.2 respectively).

The 3D Gap Analysis looks at:

  • 3 Disciplines
  • 3 Depths
  • 3 Directions

Lifecycle Services Industry Sector

exida’s Lifecycle Services support many different industries. Though the approaches to functional safety, cybersecurity and alarm management may be different per industry, the overall concepts remain consistent. The IEC 61508 functional safety standard for example applies to all industries and allows development of industry specific standards. As a result, we see IEC 61511 for the process industry, IEC 62061 for the machinery and discrete manufacturing industry, IEC 61513 for the nuclear industry, ISO 26262 for the automotive industry and many more.

As active members of many of these industry sector specific standard committees, exida has been on the forefront of implementing the standards in a variety of industries. With expert consultants in areas ranging from semiconductors and autonomous driving to industrial burner management systems, exida is active in all these industries providing in house and on project support.