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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

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)

Siemens Automation Summit (SAS)

Sorry for my absence last week, I was attending the 2007 Siemens Automation Summit, or as I tried to call it SAS. Okay, I admit, that was a poor attempt to jump on the TLA (three letter acronym) bandwagon as Honeywell did with their annual user group