ST. LOUIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Refineries must detect unsafe operating conditions before they occur. A set of automated safety shut-down skids for refineries were engineered, built and shipped by EPIC ...

To improve the safety of the operating environment, a holistic method for defining and evaluating the systems that aid an operator with the safe operation of a process unit is required. This approach ...

A final investigative report by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board into the nearly catastrophic 2015 explosion that ripped through the Torrance refinery blames ExxonMobil for not “conforming to industry ...

Yokogawa Electric Corporation announces that it will release ProSafe-RS R3.02.20 on December 26. This enhanced version of the ProSafe-RS safety instrumented system (SIS) offers improved connectivity ...

ISA recently published Safety Instrumented System Design: A Life-Cycle Approach by Paul Gruhn PE, CFSE, and Simon Lucchini, CFSE, MIEAust CPEng. In this Q&A feature, both authors highlight the focus, ...

Based on the foundational IEC 61508 standard’s essential requirements, high-performance supervisory circuits can facilitate functional-safety compliance in safety instrumented systems and other ...

No doubt it could have been far worse - even catastrophic. An apparent misstep by the attackers behind the malware now known as TRITON/TRISIS that was discovered embedded in a Schneider Electric ...

This publication provides specific recommendations on research reactor instrumentation and control systems and software important to safety, including instrumentation and control system architecture ...

A series of "gaps" in safety systems, along with violations of the company's own safety standards, led to the February 2015 explosion at the then-ExxonMobil refinery in Torrance that injured four ...