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 process.  That's right, there will be day where it is commonly ...

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 ...

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 interested in the vendor’s safety shut off valve package.  While acting ...

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).  Now as we begin a new year, a new wave of technology is beginning to unfold that will ...

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 list or a way to neutralize their insinuation that their system was better ...