What are the Goals?
At the end of this Instrumented System and Functional Safety training course, you will learn to:
- Provide an overview of safety systems related to process control systems.
- Discuss intrinsic and functional safety solutions.
- Understand Safety Integrity Levels (SIL) and techniques.
- Consider the appropriate Fieldbus choices that are available.
- Implement safe design and risk management and consider safety approvals.
Who is this Training Course for?
- Professionals involved in designing, selecting, specifying, installing, testing, operating and maintaining safety systems for process control.
- Professionals involved in safeguarding processes control systems of any kind, and
- Any individual that needs to get to grip with the ever expanding and complex field of safety in the industrial environment.
This Instrumented System and Functional Safety training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:
- Automation Engineers, Chemical Engineers, Consulting Engineers and Process Engineers.
- Electrical and C&I Engineers, Electricians and Technicians.
- Installation and Maintenance Technicians.
- Maintenance Engineers.
- Production Managers.
- Supervisors and Process Operators.
- Project Managers, System Integrators and other professionals who require a better understanding of the subject matter.
Day One: Overview of Process Control, Instrumentation and Fieldbus
- Process control systems
- Control algorithms and the PID controller
- Intelligent (Smart) sensors and transmitters
- Valves and actuators
- Fieldbus systems
- Foundation Fieldbus
- Profibus (PA)
Day Two: Dependability Concepts, Safe Design, Failures and Standards
- Dependability concepts
- Safety systems in process control and safe design
- Device-, communication-, and control failures
- Failure modes
- Error detection and avoidance mechanisms
- Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS)
- Risk management
- Risk Analysis
- Hazard and Risk Management
- Risk and Tolerable Risk
- Risk Reduction
- HAZOP and HAZOP implementation using PHA software
- Safety standards. Safety Integrity Level (SIL) and Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA)
Day Three: Dependability Concepts, Safe Design, Failures and Standards
- Fieldbus safety solutions (with specific reference to intrinsic safety)
- Implementation options (specifically considering integrated and separate systems)
- The various benefits of the implementation options
- FISCO
- Safety with Foundation Fieldbus
- Safety with Profibus PA
- Safety with PROFIsafe
- Layers of Protection Analysis (LOPA)
Day Four: Functional Safety, and SIS Aspects
- Functional Safety process control safety solutions
- Achieving target SILs
- Safe control system design
- Safety-related controls
- Safety control loops
- Safety Instrumented Systems
- Safety Integrity Level (SIL)
- SIS protocol
- SIS States and Failure
- SIS Failure classification
- SIS function blocks
- SIS diagnostics
Day Five: Testing, Intervention and Analysis
- Testing
- Fault tree analysis
- Event tree analysis
- Process alarms
- Operator intervention
- Safety approvals
- Economic analysis