Tag: SIL
Introduction to Functional Safety and SIL-Workshop on 6th Feb 2012 in Mumbai
Dec 27th, 2011- Mumbai Abhisam Software is pleased to announce it’s second workshop on Functional Safety and SIL (Safety Integrity Level) in Mumbai at Hotel Kohinoor Continental on 6th Feb 2012. The first one that we did last year was a resounding success. There were demands for another one from people who came to know of the first one rather late, so here’s good news for all of you who have been waiting for a second one!
So join us on 6th Feb 2012 and learn about Functional Safety and SIL from the world renowned expert on the subject, Dr. Michel Houtermans! Dr. Houtermans is traveling to India only for this workshop (and the subsequent TUV Certification Course that starts from the 7th), so this is your opportunity for a face-to-face discussion with him on all matters related to SIL and Functional Safety.
So if you are a local Instrument manufacturer, who would like to get your product SIL certified, or you are an engineering or safety or process consultant, who would like to know about Safety Instrumented Systems, Safety Integrity Level, SIL study and how it is carried out, hardware and software system constraints and many other related topics, this is your opportunity to join us and learn about it.
Topics covered will be mainly (but not limited to):
Covers the following topics at an introductory level:
* SIL and functional safety
* The role of functional safety management
* Hazard and risk analysis as basis for SIL
* SIL Hardware concepts
* The importance of reliability analysis
* SIL Software concepts
* SIL Certification
* International Standards IEC 61508 and IEC 61511
Registrations are limited, on a first come first serve basis, so hurry up if you are interested. Send your request to sil@abhisam.com to book your seat now!
TUV Certified Functional Safety Training-new batch in Feb 2012 announced
Mumbai, Nov 11- Abhisam Software today announced that the next batch of the TUV Certified Functional Safety Training Course will take place in February 2012 in Mumbai at the iconic tower, iThink Techno Campus of Aker Solutions, Kanjurmarg . The course is from 7th Feb 2012 to 10th Feb 2012. This is the third batch of the program until now in Mumbai. Faculty for this program too, will be the world renowned expert on Functional Safety and SIL, Dr. Michel Houtermans, from Risknowlogy Middle East.
This is a three and half day review course and is meant for those engineering and safety professionals who have at least 6 years of experience in industry. Education gives credits and a Bachelor’s degree gives two years and a Master’s three years. After three days of the intense review training, the participants will take the TUV written test (four hours) that will test understanding of various aspects of Functional safety in depth. All papers will be evaluated by TUV SÜD and successful candidates will get to use the title of Functional Safety Engineer, with a listing on the TUV SÜD website and a right to use the TUV logo on their business cards!
Topics covered will include the entire gamut of Functional Safety such as SIL study, risk assessment techniques, SIL verification and validation, Functional Safety standards such as IEC 61508, and IEC 61511, compliance, SIL certification, Safety Instrumented Systems, hardware and software system constraints and much more.
Update
So sign up now, as the seats are already half full within hours of the announcement! This is an excellent course to have and the title of FSEng will be a great boost to your career as nowadays many companies and clients insist that the people who do work related to Functional Safety, should be adequately qualified.
Basics of Functional Safety and SIL Training Course- a successful event
Mumbai, Sep 26- Today the training program, Basics of Functional Safety and SIL was held at Hotel Kohinoor Continental, Andheri, Mumbai which was a great success! Attended by several senior professionals from diverse sectors such as Engineering Consultants, End User industries, Instrumentation manufacturers and independent safety professionals, this training program was a universal success, with all participants being happy about their experience.
The training was organized by Abhisam Software’s India team and the trainer was none other than the world’s leading expert on Functional Safety and SIL, Dr. Michel Houtermans, Managing Partner of Risknowlogy GmbH. Speaking on the occasion, Dr. Houtermans said ” I am glad that people in India are so interested in Functional Safety and SIL. India is a growing economy and as plants, equipment and even facilities such as buildings, become more and more automated, functional safety will be very important in the coming years”.
A section of the participants in the SIL training program
Says one of the training program participants “Dr. Houtermans is very knowledgeable about the subject and I was very happy to get all my queries answered. There is a lot of information gap regarding the concept of SIL, how to certify instruments and products to SIL and the IEC standards and Dr. Houtermans provided clear answers to all my questions.”
Says Mandar Phadke, CEO, Abhisam Software about the program “We had a lot of requests from various people to do such a program. This is a very good beginning for those either new to Functional Safety or to those who are interested in getting an overall view of the subject such as local Instrumentation vendors, who want to get their local products certified as being SIL compliant.”
The program aimed at answering the following questions.
- What is Functional Safety?
- What is Safety Integrity Level? How does it affect me, my job, my products and my company?
- Why do my customers ask for SIL certification?
- Do the standards IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 apply to me? (to my products or industry)
- Customers want SIL compliance, why? How do we achieve it for them?
- What is a SIL study? What is a SIL assessment?
- What do we mean by terms like SIL verification and SIL validation?
- How do I get my products SIL certified?
At the end of the program, Mandar Phadke and Dr. Houtermans, distributed certificates to the participants. For more information about this program please contact us.
Learn all about SIL (Safety Integrity Level) in Mumbai-one day training program on Functional Safety
Sep 1, 2011- Mumbai – Abhisam Software is pleased to announce a one day introductory program on Functional Safety (including SIL), in Mumbai on 26th Sep 2011 at Hotel Kohinoor Continental, Andheri, Mumbai (near the International Airport). The enrollments for this program have already started and you can reserve your seat now by calling us on +91 22 21732956 or +91 7208060349 now! Or send us an email to sil@abhisam.com
This much awaited training program introduces the participant to Functional Safety including topics such as Safety Integrity Level (SIL for short), various risk assessment techniques, Safety Instrumented Systems, globally used standards on Functional Safety such as IEC 61508 and IEC 61511. So if you are new to the concepts of functional safety and wish to know about SIL, this is an ideal training course for you.
The course will discuss functional safety for any kind of safety systems from a lifecylce point of view. The course will addresses the following topics:
- Introduction to SIL and functional safety
- The role of functional safety management
- Hazard and risk analysis as basis for SIL
- SIL Hardware concepts
- The importance of reliability analysis
- SIL Software concepts
- SIL Certification-what it means?
- How to get your instruments/products SIL certified?
If you are from a process industry such as Oil and Gas, Chemical, Petrochemical, Power, Agrochemicals, Rubber, Mining, etc then this course will be extremely useful. Ditto if you are an engineering consultant to any of these industries, or an automation system supplier (or system integrator) or a supplier of instrumentation to these industries or a government or regulatory authority.
These days, due to stringent government regulations and environmental awareness, most well managed companies in the process industries have to implement good safety engineering practices such as analysis of Safety Integrity Level, use of appropriate Safety Instrumented Systems, the adherence to global standards such as IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 and ensuring that their staff who are entrusted with these tasks are well trained. This is an opportunity for engineers and technicians who are working in areas of process instrumentation to learn about this highly important subject from one of the foremost authorities on it, Dr. Michel Houtermans. Thus this event is a chance to not only learn all about Functional Safety, but also to network with Dr. Houtermans.
Dr. Houtermans will be in Mumbai to conduct this Introduction to Functional Safety training program, as well as to conduct the TUV Certified Functional Safety Training course to be held at the same location from 28th Sep 2011 to 1st Oct 2011.
So do not miss this chance. The fee is a very nominal Rs. 6500/- only that covers the cost of the training and lunch/tea/cookies for the participants. The networking and experience sharing is of course, complimentary!
Send your nominations to sil@abhisam.com or Call us on +91 7208060349 or +91-22-21732956 to register!
TUV Certified Functional Safety Training Program in Mumbai
Mumbai, 15th Feb 2011- Abhisam Software is pleased to announce that a training program on Functional Safety will be held from April 11 to Apr 14 at Hotel Kohinoor Continental in Mumbai. This Functional Safety Certification training program will be conducted by the world renowned Dr. Michel Houtermans of Risknowlogy, a company in the forefront of development related to Functional Safety, testing of instruments and systems for reliability and training. Risknowlogy also partners with Abhisam Software in the distribution of Abhisam Software’s e-learning courses.
The program which will be spread over three and a half days will cover key concepts related to Functional Safety, standards like IEC 61511 & IEC 61508, Safety Integrity Level (SIL for short), SIL Assessments, SIL Verification and so on. The last day will also have a four hour written test, that will entitle successful participants to be eligible to get a TUV SUD Certificate in Functional Safety. They will get to use the TUV logo on their business cards and stationery, identifying them as competent persons who can do work related to Functional Safety and Safety Instrumented Systems.
For more information about this course, please contact us.
Get the new Safety Instrumented Systems e-learning course at a discount
June 07,2010-If you are a customer of Abhisam Software, having brought our excellent e-learning courses on Hazardous Area Instrumentation or Gas Monitors, then you are eligible for a whopping 20% discount off the current price of the Safety Instrumented Systems e-learning course. If you are interested, get in touch with us at sales@abhisam.com to get your own COUPON CODE to avail this discount. But you have to hurry up as this offer is not going to last long!
The Safety Instrumented Systems e-learning course is a big hit, with many practising engineers downloading the course. This comes as no surprise, as this is the only comprehensive e-learning course that covers all aspects of this slightly difficult to grasp subject. The course covers everything including Safety Integrity Level (SIL) calculations, SIL verification, functional safety, an introduction to safety standards such as IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 and functional safety concepts. The cost is a real no brainer, if you compare with classroom courses that charge about TEN times as much for the same course.
E-learning course on Safety Instrumented Systems released
Jan1, 2010-Today, we released our newest course so far-an e-learning course on Safety Instrumented Systems. This topic may sounds esoteric to some, but in reality, it will only grow in importance as more and more automation systems get installed in plants on one hand and on the other hand, governments and other regulatory bodies make protection of the environment, people and assets mandatory, through the use of such systems. Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS for short) are also known by other names like Emergency Shutdown Systems (ESD for short) and Safety Shutdown Systems. If you are working in any large process industry such as Oil & Gas, Petrochemical, Chemical, Nuclear, Power Generation, Metals Processing or gas processing, then you must be aware that Safety Instrumented Systems are used in all these places to prevent harm to people, the environment and of course the plant itself. Upto now, however there was no easy way to study SIS in detail. You would either have to refer to books (that may not be too easy to understand) or depend on “free” white papers, etc on the internet that often cause more confusion that comfort. Merely making sense of the voluminous information online can make a time-starved engineer dizzy.
Of course, you could always ask your bosses to sponsor you for a classroom course. But though the courses are excellent and have the best instructors, it is a pain to travel halfway round the world to such an event, many of which are not held too frequently.Besides, it does make a dent in an otherwise shrinking training budget.
So we thought about having an e-learning course on this important topic, so that any engineer or other technical professional, at any level in any company, could simply download and install this training course on his/her PC or laptop and have all the information needed to make an informed decision on SIS, whether it is to design and buy a new system, or to upgrade one, or merely to keep the existing one in good shape. However, this is not just a rehashed power point presentation that some other vendors out there hawk as an “e-learning course”. This one’s the real McCoy, my friend. It is full of explanatory Flash animations, interactive simulations, graphics, easy to understand text written in a way that anybody can relate to and worked examples from everyday industries. A Self-Assessment test at the end will gauge how much you have understood the subject.
Once installed on your PC/laptop it stays there forever (at least until your laptop works). Once you pay the on time ridiculously low price , you don’t pay a dime more in “licensing fees” nor do you have to be online to refer to it. It’s there always with you whenever you need it. No need to pay anything more for “refresher” courses. So go out and get it, before your peers do and boast that they now “get” what is SIL 3 and SIL 4 and IEC 61508 and all that!
Download it from here instantly.
