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Safety Integrity Level (SIL) IEC 61508 / IEC 61511 for Process Industries Seminar in April 2013

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CeesThe seminar session will focus on the establishment of the appropriate SIL (Safety Integrity Levels) and the subsequent selection of functional safety applications as established by and described in Safety Integrity Level procedures in accordance with SIL IEC-61508/61511 guidelines.

It will be the first time Phoenix Contact S.E.A. is organizing a 6 hour hands-on workshop that will introduce the purpose and application principles for implementing Safety Integrity Levels (SIL) in process safeguarding systems.

This in depth and insightful discussion will be hosted by Mr. Cees Rienstra, an expert in SIL applications, and industry consultant, retired from Royal Dutch Shell Holland.

Who will benefit from this session?                                                                                 

Process-Engineering, Design/Engineering and Operations/Maintenance professionals

When?

09th April 2013, Tuesday in Indonesia

11th & 12th April 2013, Thursday & Friday in Singapore

16th April 2013, Tuesday in Malaysia

If you are interested or wish to find out more information, please contact us through the comments section and we will get back to you.

Safety Intergrity Level in Relation to Performance Level

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I would like to share my experience which I encountered during my recent safety training to a customer in Malaysia. The topic was on Safety in Machine which the core topic was on the New Standard EN ISO 13849-1 which will be the successor to EN 954-1 ( EN954-1 will be invalid from 28-Dec-2011 )

I realized that 80% of the time I was explaining on the newly introduce Performance Level (PL) and Safety Integrity Level (SIL). During the discussion, there was a question from an engineer.

“In this case, in future we will all use the highest Safety Integrity Level (SIL) say SIL3 or SIL4 and our system will be good and safe”

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