News

Machine Design, June 2011
By Lanny Berke
Even when a company has LO/TO programs in place, workers may skip LO/TO procedures that seem too burdensome or inconvenient. Many supervisors compound the problem by recognizing the difficulty and overlooking LO/TO lapses.

Design News, June 2011
Integrated safety continues to develop more potent solutions, driven by this year's deadline for complying with European safety standards which make it a requirement to calculate the performance level achieved by each safety function in a system.

Pipeline & Gas Journal, June 2011
Here’s a SCADA implementer’s perspective regarding the intent of the Pipeline Hazardous Materials Safety Administration’s (PHMSA) Control Room Management (CRM) rule. In addition, it provides a fresh approach to CRM, describing why companies should use the CRM process to go beyond compliance requirements.

Net Safety Monitoring makes fixed toxic and combustible gas detectors, flame detectors, safety systems, and other safety and security products.

Sirius 3RB24 electronic overload relays have IO-Link communications.

KM915 and KM919 Operator Workstations work in Class I, Div. 2 hazardous locations.

Honeywell's Safety Manager has been awarded ISASecure Embedded Device Security Assurance (EDSA) certification by exida.

The PA4000 Gas Monitor has a photoacoustic, infrared (IR) sensor to monitor a variety of gases including hydrocarbons, solvents, alcohols, CO2, CO and other dangerous gases.

Rotork actuators are providing valve control on new gas dehydration units constructed at seven sites in the Transylvanian region of Romania.

Honeywell will supply its Experion PKS control system, Foundation Fieldbus, and Safety Manager for a new central processing platform currently under construction in Vung Tau, Vietnam.