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 there’s no degradation of safety when you have a partial shutdown and, ...

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 were quoted in the article, but to spare you the time, please allow me to ...

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 of Exida.  Bill enlightened the entire group of some 20 process control engineers ...