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Wednesday, June 17, 2009 12:58 PM

Why Seperate when you can integrate

I'm taking a stance, and publicly telling you my vision on the issue of separation and integration for safety and control. When this happens, is still up to debate. I believe that one day it will only take one control system to automate your critical
Posted by Charles Fialkowski | 0 Comments
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 2:02 PM

Does past experience equal Prior Use?

So you’re faced with the question of whether that trusty old transmitter you’ve been using as part of your safety shutdown system can meet the “prior use” requirements described in Section 11.5.3 of ANSI/ISA-84.00.01-2004 (IEC
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Friday, November 30, 2007 2:50 PM

Attention all safety product listings

I received an e-mail inquiring about a product being “listed” or not, which made me stop and think about how far we have come in the past 10 years regarding safety systems and their “type” of certification. The term “listed”
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Friday, October 26, 2007 3:14 PM

What the SIL are you talking about?

Have you had a chance to catch Bill Goble’s Hydrocarbon Processing (October 2007 issue) editorial titled “Still not using a safety PLC?” Essentially Bill addresses the question of whether you can use conventional equipment (PLC or DCS)
Posted by Charles Fialkowski | 0 Comments
Friday, September 07, 2007 4:12 PM

Certify This

You would think that the simple word “safety” would be so well understood by now that, …………well……..even a caveman could get it. Unfortunately, I find we are still struggling to come to a consensus.
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