“SIS Component Assessment Process”

with William M. Goble, Ph.D., CFSE
Principal Partner, exida

This is a past event and is preserved for historical reference.

Venue: The HESS Club

The trend toward IEC 61508 certified instrumentation is rapidly growing. This presentation describes process an instrument manufacturer must go through to get an IEC 61508 certification. Experiences from dozens of real instrumentation projects will point out the benefits choosing IEC 61508 certified instruments. These include high design quality and safety integrity. The tradeoffs between equipment justification based on “Prior Use” and IEC 61508 certification will also be reviewed.

William Goble, principal partner at exida, has over 30 years of professional experience. His areas of expertise include safety and high availability automation systems, automation probabilistic analysis, new product development and market analysis. He developed techniques used for probabilistic evaluation of safety and high availability automation systems. He was formerly Director, Critical Systems at Moore Products where job duties included new product design and development and engineering project management. He has written three books on topics of automation safety and reliability. He is a fellow member of ISA. He has published many papers and magazine articles. Dr. Goble has a BSEE from Penn State, a MSEE from Villanova, and a PhD from Eindhoven University of Technology in Eindhoven, Netherlands.

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