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Tuesday, May 06, 2008 2:39 PM

Treat your SIS better than Certified pre-owned

Last month we decided it was time to upgrade the old family car. After searching for several weeks, we decided on a very nice, 3 year-old, certified pre-owned. While I haven’t purchased a used vehicle in several years, I felt comfortable in this
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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)
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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
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Friday, July 13, 2007 4:35 PM

Sparky Drops the F-Bomb

Sorry for my absence (for those actually missed me). I promise, after I get back from my family vacation July 25 th , I promise to be more consistent with weekly blog entries after my vacation. I’ve been saving up some very good material, and I’m
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Friday, May 11, 2007 12:46 PM

When your BMS is an SIS

A while back I had an interesting conversation with a well respected burner management (BMS) expert, Mr. Mike Scott from AESolutions. We were chatting about the requirements for PLC based BMS systems, and what the latest release of NFPA standards (NFPA
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Friday, May 04, 2007 2:51 PM

Integrating the experts?

The cover story of the April edition of Automation World was titled “how much integration is right”. Of course they were covering the highly controversial topic of integrating your control and safety system. Many globally recognized experts
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Friday, April 20, 2007 10:18 AM

And the survey says?

A recent “Market Intelligence” report on Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) had me shaking my head. What really surprised me about their reported findings was on the heavily debated topic of SIS independence. For those who like reading my BLOG,
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Friday, March 02, 2007 2:02 PM

Process Safety Trends 2007

Like most of you, I’m always interested (yet skeptical) hearing about new trends in our industry. Earlier this week, I had the privilege to co-present at a process safety technical conference in the Pittsburgh area, with Dr. William (Bill) Goble
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Thursday, February 15, 2007 1:34 PM

PFU - Probability of Failing to Understand

Recently I got caught up in a reliability discussion between a user and a vendor. The user worked for a large O&G company, and the vendor worked for a large company who manufactured process instrumentation. In this particular exchange, the user was
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Thursday, February 08, 2007 11:22 AM

Process Safety in the year 2007

Working in and around process safety applications for most of my professional career (just under 20 years), I've enjoyed watching, discussing and participating on many technical challenges and advances regarding safety instrumented systems (SIS).
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Tuesday, January 30, 2007 11:50 AM

OSHA 1910.119 and ISA S84

I got an interesting question this week from one of our sales people. He told me that a competitor, new to the process safety market, supplied his customer with a list of their users who are compliant with 29CFR1910.119. He wondered if we had a similar
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