What is the difference between Verification and Validation in Functional Safety?

In this short guide, we will learn about two important concepts in the Functional Safety world, Verification and Validation and the difference between the two. What is Verification and Validation? Although colloquially these two words may sound similar, yet in the Functional Safety World, they are distinct concepts and different from each other, as different as chalk and cheese. To have a quick overview of this, you can watch …

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ISA TR 84

ISA-TR84.00.09-2023 Cybersecurity related to the Functional Safety Lifecycle-Draft published

The ISA-TR84.00.09-2023 Part 1 (Draft) technical report is ready for review and comments. You can download the draft isa-tr84.00.09 pdf and if you have any comments, you can submit them to the ISA committee, if the committee approves, it will be incorporated into the next draft or published as the final report after all approved changes, comments have been incorporated. What is ISA TR 84? ISA is the International …

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free ICS cyber security webinar

Introduction to Industrial Cybersecurity and IEC 62443 webinar

Industrial Cybersecurity webinar series Here’s an interesting piece of industrial cyber security news for you! Abhisam is pleased to announce a free series of industrial cyber security webinars  in the new year 2023. The “Introduction to Industrial Cybersecurity and IEC 62443” webinar, is a primer for anybody who wishes to know more about securing their Industrial Automation, Control and Safety Systems from cyber threats. Note: For a comprehensive certification …

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Abhisam Discounted Online Courses

Discounted Online Courses from Abhisam

Discounted courses Black Friday offer For this Thanksgiving in 2022, Abhisam has a great Black Friday 2022 offer for course bundles, as well for the Certified HAZOP Leader course, which eligible participants can get at a huge discount! To see  what’s on offer please visit the Offers page at https://www.abhisam.com/discounted-online-courses The offers will be live until end of business hours on 30th Nov 2022. So hurry up and get …

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Functional Safety Industrial Cybersecurity

How Bad Industrial Cybersecurity degrades Functional Safety to being ineffective

Functional Safety and Industrial Cybersecurity- what’s the connection? In this short explanatory white paper, we will discuss how a bad Industrial cybersecurity posture can degrade Functional Safety to be almost ineffective, in protecting assets, people and the environment. Thus having proper Industrial Cybersecurity is a pre-requisite to having proper Functional Safety. What is Functional Safety all about? Functional Safety is a specialized domain within the Safety world, which deals …

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IEC 61511 and IEC 61508

What is the difference between IEC 61511 and IEC 61508?

In the next few minutes of reading this you will understand the difference between IEC 61511 and IEC 61508. What is IEC 61511? IEC 61511 is the process industry standard for Functional Safety and Safety Instrumented Systems. This standard has been developed by the International Electrotechnical Commission and is used globally. Process industries are those industries that handle bulk materials (rather than discrete parts) and include the Oil & …

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Safety Instrumented Systems IEC 61511

Safety Instrumented Systems IEC 61511

Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS for short) that are used in the process industry sector, such as Oil and Gas platforms, Petroleum refineries, chemical manufacturing plants, pulp and paper, fossil fuel power generation plants and so on generally comply with the international standard IEC 61511.  This standard, published by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) is the most widely used standard all over the world for building and maintaining SIS in …

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What If Training

What If Training Workshop conducted at Lote, Chiplun, India

Abhisam’s India office is pleased to announce that they conducted a What If training workshop for the Indian Institute of Chemical Engineers Lote chapter, on 27th April 2022 at Hotel Omega, Lote, near Chiplun, India. More than 45 engineers and managers  from different companies in the Lote Parshuram Industrial Area attended this hands-on workshop that covered the What-If Analysis /SWIFT technique of Risk Assessment. What-If Analysis and SWIFT (Structured …

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Functional Safety Training in India

Functional Safety Training in India at Baker Hughes

Functional Safety Training in India After a gap of two years, Abhisam has restarted Functional Safety Training in India. Recently, Abhisam conducted the Abhisam Functional Safety, SIL & SIS Cybersecurity (Level 1) workshop for engineers of Baker Hughes at their Mumbai office. About Baker Hughes Baker Hughes is a leading Energy Technology company in the world. For more than a century Baker Hughes inventions have revolutionized the world of …

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What is SIL?

What is SIL? Should we select SIL 4 for our Safety Instrumented Function?

Jenny is a young engineer assigned to a project to install a new Safety Instrumented System for a plant. Eddie is her supervisor, who is in charge of the project. Jenny wonders why have different SILs for different SIFs. Eddie explains the reasons. Watch the video below to know more. What is SIL? Safety Integrity Level (SIL) is a measure used to describe the integrity of a Safety Instrumented …

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