Intrinsic Safety Design

What is Intrinsic Safety? Intrinsic Safety is one of the several protection techniques used in hazardous areas. This type of protection is applicable to electrical apparatus in which the electrical circuits themselves are incapable of causing an explosion in the surrounding explosive atmospheres. This short Intrinsic Safety design guide will give you an idea of how Intrinsic Safety is used in hazardous areas. What are Hazardous Areas? Hazardous Areas …

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LOTO training in Hindi

Lockout Tagout Course in Hindi soon

Abhisam’s India office is pleased to announce that very soon some of Abhisam’s popular courses will be available in Hindi. Until now Abhisam courses were only available in English. The first such course will be a very important one on LOTO, which stands for Lockout Tagout. This is a very important procedure to be followed to isolate machinery from sources of energy, during maintenance or repair and shutdowns, to …

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Free Hazardous Area Training

Take this free Hazardous Area Training Course

What is this free Hazardous Area training course? The Abhisam free Introduction to Hazardous Areas covers all the basics of hazardous areas. As you already know, hazardous areas are certain areas in plants and facilities that have a higher risk of fire or explosion due to the properties of materials stored or processed in these areas. Typically hazardous areas are found in oil and gas fields, petroleum refineries, underground …

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Understanding IEC 62443-2-4

What is IEC 62443-2-4? Understand it easily

Abhisam is pleased to announce that a new module on understanding IEC 62443-2-4 is  now a part of the Abhisam Industrial Cybersecurity training course (Professional Version). What is IEC 62443-2-4? As you probably know, the IEC 62443 series of standards is developed jointly by ISA (International Society of Automation) and IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission), to provide guidance for implementing Industrial Cybersecurity.  The term is synonymous with OT Security (Operational …

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Intrinsic Safety Course

Intrinsic Safety Course from Abhisam

The Abhisam Intrinsic Safety course is now available for learners on the Abhisam Learning Portal. This training course on Intrinsically Safe systems, is the best online course for Instrumentation engineers, Automation professionals and Control System engineers who wish to design Intrinsically Safe systems in their plants and facilities that have hazardous areas. What are Hazardous Areas? As you probably know, hazardous areas (also known as classified locations) are those …

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Safety Instrumented Systems a life-cycle approach

Safety Instrumented Systems- a Life-cycle approach works best

What are Safety Instrumented Systems? Safety Instrumented Systems are automation systems that kick into action when some deviation from the normal operating parameters has the potential to trigger an unwanted incident. These include both (relatively) simple systems like OPS (overfill prevention systems), that prevent overfilling a storage tank by sensing the high level and automatically stopping the inlet flow on high level, as well as more complex systems such …

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Cyber security – Oil and Gas industries

This paper  related to cyber security oil and gas industries, is available as a part of the Abhisam Industrial Cybersecurity report, which can be downloaded now. Author: H Sreedhar. Recent History of Automation in Oil & Gas   The Oil and Gas industry (O & G for short) has been a pioneer in embracing digital technology. It was one of the first industrial sectors to transition to Distributed Control …

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HAZOP Leader Certification Course is now online

July 16, 2020- The Abhisam  HAZOP Leader certification course is now a completely online, e-learning course now. With the incidence of the pandemic and lockdowns in various places around the world, many learners demanded that the popular course be offered online. Abhisam is now pleased to inform participants that this HAZOP Leader certification course  online is now available as a full fledged , self paced, e-learning course that can …

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