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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 …

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 …

What is a Safety Instrumented System?

A Safety Instrumented System (SIS for short) is used in many process plants to ensure continued safe operation of the process. In case of any disturbance that is likely to result in an unwanted incident the SIS automatically brings the process to a safe state and prevents loss of life, asset damage and environmental damage. For process plants that handle hazardous, toxic, explosive or other similar materials, Safety Instrumented …