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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
Wednesday, February 06, 2008 10:12 AM

Not Worth A SFF

In attending last week’s 63rd Annual Texas A&M Instrumentation symposium, I was shocked to hear from a well respected safety expert that SFF (Safe failure fraction) was a failed metric. No explanation, just that SFF was pretty much useless,
Posted by Charles Fialkowski | 1 Comments
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, October 05, 2007 4:01 PM

Running to Destruction

Was not the response I was expecting to hear from an audience member during my presentation on new SIS (safety instrumented system) hardware development at this week’s ISA Expo. He obviously was concerned over my suggestion that with new SIS technology
Posted by Charles Fialkowski | 0 Comments
Thursday, February 22, 2007 3:07 PM

What do want to get out of the ISA expo 2007?

Earlier this week, I was invited to present at one of the technical sessions for the upcoming ISA expo 2007. This particular session's focus, was on "NEW SIS hardware technology". Initially, I was asked to represent Siemens and to describe
Posted by Charles Fialkowski | 4 Comments