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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, October 31, 2008 2:58 PM

Let’s talk about SIX

Next week (Wednesday, November 5th) I have the honor of delivering a 45 minute presentation at the exiderdome in New York City. If you haven’t heard, or don’t know what exiderdome is, then check it out at www.sea.siemens.com/exiderdome the
Posted by Charles Fialkowski | 0 Comments
Friday, December 21, 2007 3:53 PM

Wait for the BUS or go Old School

Here it is Friday, December 21, 2007 about 2:30pm, while most process safety specialists and marketing managers are enjoying the tidings; I just had to get something off my chest before I begin my holiday break. I was hoping to make my 2008 Process Safety
Posted by Charles Fialkowski | 0 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
Friday, May 18, 2007 9:43 AM

Hanging with the Boyes

This week our office had a visit from one of the most well respected automation journalists (and fellow BLOGGER), Mr. Walt Boyes, Editor and Chief of CONTROL magazine. It turned out to be a great visit as Walt shared with us his vision of the market and
Posted by Charles Fialkowski | 2 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
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