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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.
Functional Safety Engineer training in Mumbai-get certified as a FSE from TUV
July 31, Mumbai - Abhisam Software is pleased to announce that enrolments for the second batch of the TUV Certified program in Functional Safety have started and there is an early bird discount for enrolments before 15th Aug 2011. The TUV program is a highly respected and acclaimed program, leading to the title of FSEng for all successful participants (those who pass a four hour written exam and meet the minimum qualification and experience criteria). This program is conducted at several places around the world every year. The last batch in Mumbai was in April and now it is time for another batch (28th Sep to 1st Oct 2011). The venue is Hotel Kohinoor Continental, Andheri, Mumbai which is close to the International airport.
The course is meant for engineering and safety professionals in the process industries who are involved with design, engineering and operations involving Safety Instrumented Systems, Emergency Shutdown Systems and the like. It covers all aspects of Functional Safety including Risk Assessment techniques, Reliability, Safety Integrity Level assessments and verifications, IEC 61508 and IEC 61511 standards. Typical attendees are Process engineers, Instrument & Control Engineers, Design engineers, Operation and Maintenanace engineers working in process industries such as Oil and Gas, Chemicals, Power as well as Automation suppliers and system integrators, engineering consultants and regulatory authorities.
The program will have Dr. Michel Houtermans of Risknowlogy, the globally recognized authority on Functional Safety as the principal faculty. This is an excellent opportunity not only to sharpen one’s skills in areas such as SIL study, but also a chance to network with Dr. Houtermans, who will be present throughtout the duration of the course.
You can enroll online in the program by visiting the link below
http://www.risknowlogy.com/mumbai-tuv-sis
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.
Finally elearning becomes mainstream-Bill Gates says the future of education is online learning
Aug 13, 2010-Miami,FL At last now, finally, of all people, Bill Gates finally “gets” it. I’m talking about his 2010 annual letter from Bill Gates, where he emphasizes the importance of “online learning”. He also says that most universities and other educational institutions do it the wrong way and have not really caught on to the Real McCoy of e-learning. They simply upload a video of a professor droning monotonously in a classroom to his students and upload it to their site (or to YouTube). The only effect it has on the web is that it may put off a large number of students-in a classroom only a few may be put off (or go to sleep).
However, this can hardly be described as e-learning. A real e-learning course will have not only video but also a lot of interactivity using Flash animations and other simulations, multiple paths through which learners can proceed, the ability to set your own pace and so on. This is really helpful as it interests the learner and does not saddle him/her with information that is irrelevant. When I mentioned this to people on another forum, I was told that there is a lot of questions and answers back and forth in a classroom environment, which is not possible online. While some of it may be true, it can be easily corrected by collating all these questions and doubts and their answers and weaving it into the learning course. This will keep on making the elearning course better and better and at some point of time be much better than the best professor who teaches the subject.
Now comes the best part of the story so far. Let us imagine this ideal best professor to teach a particular subject, say Ststistics, is Mr. Smith at Harvard (just for an example) and the second best is his junior teaching assistant Ms.Jane. Their expertise in teaching statistics, plus their experience of students’ doubts, questions and arguments has led to the preparation of an excellent course. Now imagine that into this course design are added various animations, simulation exercises, examples from industry and business experts to form a formidable e-learning course. This course is now much better than the sum of its parts, so it is a degree of magnitude better than what Prof. Smith or Lecturer Jane would teach. Now this same course is made available online to 100,000 students worldwide- see the effects? Mindboggling.
This is what he meant by “the future of learning is e-learning”. This is exactly what we at Abhisam Software have been saying for years together but nobody seemed to notice. But I am happy that since good ol’ Bill “gets” it, everybody else will, sooner or later.
Why is this threatening to a lot of the “powers that be”? Because now you need not pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to go to an “elite” university to learn the above Statistics course. You can learn it at home for a few hundred dollars or a few thousand dollars. For anybody and everybody. You need not be “accepted” at a premier school. You need not “demonstrate your innate genius” to get inside the elite school for an opportunity to learn. In fact you need not step out of your home to learn. Or if you wish you could loll on a beach and get access to the same course. You can take it at your own pace. No need to take on endless student loans. No need to appeal to past teachers to get good letters of recommendation. No need to… I’ll stop here. You get the idea? E-learning is truly liberating, an idea which has come.
Obviously some elements would want to prevent this from happening. But the genie is out of the bottle and cannot be brought back.
Our own e-learning courses are priced to be very very affordable to learners in all parts of the world. For example the subject of Safety Instrumented Systems is taught by a few elite in classroom type classes a few times a year for as much as $3000. But you can get the same knowledge, when you take our e-learning version for just $199 (now being offered at a special of $177). This benefits everybody, including the subject matter experts who have contributed to this course as well as the learners.
Comments are welcome below.
Developing e-learning for the iPad-how to implement interactive animations?
Aug 3, 2010- This is a problem that is now staring us in the face. With Apple firmly ring fencing its iPad from anything to do with Flash or Shockwave, how to get .swf files to play on iPads? We have a lot of training courses/e-learning courses and content that would be well received by iPad customers, however the animations inside them may not run since they use Flash /Shockwave extensively. Does anybody know of any other application that can be used to produce interactive animations (not just videos) and games for e-learning that can run on iPads? Do let us know.
Get the free mini ebook on elearning in the Process industries
June 17, 2010- Now you can get a free mini ebook on “E learning in the Process Industries” in DNL format from the Abhisam Software Free Download pages. It should be out in a couple of days at the most. This mini ebook was first released way back as a White Paper, but now it has grown into a small (mini) ebook. Also the DNL format makes it easy to read with all inside links intact (much better than a plain jane pdf).
The mini ebook makes a strong case for e-learning in the process industries (industries that operate large scale, continuous and batch processes mostly associated with chemicals, oil & gas, petroleum, fertilizers, cement, gas processing, power and so on). The technology that is at the heart of these industries has evolved into a very sophisticated animal, but the methods that are used to train employees have not changed much. This is seriously hampering the efforts of these industries to upgrade their workforce, though many managers do not realize it. The constant refrain is the high cost of training, the shortage of skilled hands and the high cost of replacing people who leave or retire. This ebook provides a solution that is not at all difficult to implement, does not cost a fortune and can lessen these problems, if not eliminate them completely.
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.
World Environmental Day-Switch to e-learning from traditional classroom learning
June 05, 2010 -Today is World Environmental Day. So let’s see how we can contribute to the environment’s well being. There are of course many ways that every individual can contribute to the environment. Use less energy, conserve and preserve trees, don’t pollute the air and water. Saying all this is fine, but how does one realistically do this? Well, one of the ways is by using e-learning, rather than traditional classroom based learning. To attend classes that are away, you have to hop into an automobile, burn up fuel and drive to the class. Not only you, but every student and the teacher/professor does the same. How many gallons and liters? Then you take notes on paper that is produced by cutting up trees. Then the professor dishes out study material that is also paper based.
Is it really necessary? Certainly not! If you switch to elearning, you can study from the comfort of your home or office or the beach! No need to burn up fossil fuels, pollute the air (and perhaps the sea due to deepwater drilling that the oil companies need to do so that you can burn up the gasoline in your car!)
Study online and save the course on your computer. Interact with others like you on online forums. Do not print anything or write anything. So no need to cut trees and make paper.
Have a look at the video below.
