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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HAZOP Training in India

HAZOP Training in India

HAZOP Training in India Abhisam is pleased to announce that Instructor led training workshops on HAZOP, are being restarted from June 2022. Accordingly you can now easily get HAZOP Training in India via a traditional, classroom type workshop that gives a hands on experience in conducting a HAZOP Study.   What is HAZOP? What is the full form of HAZOP? HAZOP is a Hazard and Risk Assessment technique used …

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LOPA Swiss Cheese model

All about LOPA-Layer of Protection Analysis

What is LOPA? LOPA is short for Layer of Protection Analysis. It is also referred to sometimes as Layers of Protection Analysis. It is  considered a semi-quantitative risk assessment technique. Abhisam’s Layer of Protection Analysis training course is an easy way to learn it. What are protection layers? An easy way to understand protection layers is to study an example of a residential house, located in a not so …

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Safety Logic Solver

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 …

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What is a Safety Instrumented Function?

What is a Safety Instrumented Function? One of the most fundamental questions related to Functional Safety and Safety Instrumented Systems is this-what is a safety instrumented function? Once you understand what a Safety Instrumented Function (SIF) means, you will immediately grasp the connection between safety instrumented functions and a Safety Instrumented System (SIS). But more on that later. Any plant or piece of equipment that has the potential to …

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Functional Safety Certification Course IEC 61508 Pune India

Update: July 2020:Functional Safety Training We have suspended all in person workshops, due to the pandemic. But all of these have now been replaced by easy, self paced e-learning Functional Safety courses, that you can take online. They are NOT videos of a professor speaking or a simple power point presentation. They are full fledged e-learning courses with text, animations, simulations, real life examples and calculations, exercises, videos and …

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