Publisher's Synopsis
This best seller is ideal for instrumentation and control system engineers in the process industries who are responsible for specifying, designing, analyzing, installing, and maintaining safety instrumented systems. Safety Instrumented Systems: A Life-Cycle Approach addresses the realization that today's process plants-and the systems used to control them-are capable of large-scale destruction. The risks involved now are so great that the luxury of learning from trial-and-error experience no longer exists. This book is a practical, how-to text covering the specification, design, analysis, programming, installation, maintenance, and management of change of safety instrumented systems.
This is a practical, how-to text designed to guide functional safety engineers and others in process industry safety to the right decisions about safety systems at the right time. It:
- Provides a high-level overview of the ISA84/IEC 61511 standard.
- Explains how to align the performance requirements of ISA/IEC 61511 with project execution.
- Provides guidance for making the right decisions about safety systems at the right time.
- Provides insights about key project milestones so that functional safety engineers can create more effective designs.
- Analyzes actual situations and experiences to help people learn from the mistakes of others and to help them better troubleshoot their own applications.
