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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
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
Posted by Charles Fialkowski | 0 Comments
Monday, March 12, 2007 2:22 PM

Two for the price of one

Here's another great situation I came across this week.... Let's say your working with an existing unit with only one (1) critical flow transmitter. Thru your HAZOP, you've found that this flow measurement is critical for both process control
Posted by Charles Fialkowski | 1 Comments
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
Posted by Charles Fialkowski | 0 Comments
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).
Posted by Charles Fialkowski | 1 Comments
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
Posted by Charles Fialkowski | 0 Comments