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SLM® for Process Safety Solution
Mangan Software Solutions (MSS) is a leading supplier in the Process Safety and Safety Lifecycle software industry. For the past decade, MSS has been leading the market in innovative technologies for the Refining, Upstream Oil & Gas, Chemical, Pipeline, and Biopharmaceutical industries, transforming Process Safety Information into Process Safety Intelligence. MSS’ engineers and programmers are experts in the fields...
Digitalization Demands
Digitalization Demands An Integrated Safety Lifecycle Management System (part 1) of this blog series, the general organization of the Safety Lifecycle, as described in IEC 61511, was discussed. Part 1 highlights the difficulties the application of tools typically used in the day to day operations have with effectively administrating the Safety Lifecycle.
In Part 2 of this blog series,...
Digitalization Demands An Integrated Safety Lifecycle Management System (part 1)
An integrated safety lifecycle management system is crucial to properly manage the entire safety lifecycle from cradle to grave. Anyone who has attempted to manage the Safety Lifecycle has quickly realized that the tools that a typical processing facility uses are wholly unsuited to meet the requirements of the Safety Lifecycle.
Most tools available are...
A Holistic Approach to the Safety Lifecycle
Holistic (adj): relating to or concerned with wholes or with complete systems rather than with the analysis of, treatment of, or dissection into parts.
A lot of factors enter into how a Process Safety Culture develops in an organization, but the net result is that either an organization has a positive, effective Safety Life Cycle culture or becomes exposed to...
Non-Instrumented Independent Protection Layers (IPLs) – Hiding in Plain Sight
Non-Instrumented independent protection layers (IPLs) are hiding in Plain Sight. A few of the often-missed non-Instrumented IPL types are often forgotten in the real world. This blog is not a complete list of non-Instrumented IPLs but instead it highlights how easy it is for these types of protective features to be forgotten and unintentionally disabled. An organization needs to rigorously...
Bring Back the Basics-A deeper Dive to Practical Field Instrumentation in Process Safety Service (Part 2)
When it comes to specification of field instrumentation used for Process Safety related applications, designers are often left on their own to specify the instrumentation. SIF input and output performance may be specified in a Safety Requirements Specification, but all too often I’ve observed that these specifications are minimal or go directly to specifying a manufacturer and model number without...