Welcome To Inside Functional Safety®!

We are making good progress! We are working hard to bring you the first international technical magazine on functional safety. The first issue is almost ready. All authors have submitted their articles and the final reviews are taking place. We estimate to send out the first magazine in February 2009. Signup for a free account and we will keep you up to date.

At the moment we are inviting authors to submit their articles for the 2nd issue of 2009. If you are interested please visit our Authors page and register for a free account. The objective of the Inside Functional Safety^® magazine is to become a valuable reference work and source of information for engineers and managers in all industries. Its content should focus on functional safety theory, and support this theory with practical examples demonstrating real solutions. The magazine publishes industrial case studies, research papers, review articles and commercial papers. Every contribution will go through an objective peer review process.

In the first issue the following articles will be presented:

• Dieter Wenker - The EN 50402 for Fixed Gas Detection Systems in Relation to the Generic Standard EN/IEC 61508

• Didier Turcinovic - Global Village, Global Market; Global Risk.

• Michel Houtermans - Certification, Proven In Use, and Reliability Data

• Roberto Varela - Handling Documentation Requirements in the Functional Safety Industry

• Ian K. Ramsay-Connell - Introducing Tridefine: A Modeling Tool for Life-Cycle Based Functional Safety Projects

• Thomas Walczak - An Existing Plant versus New (Retrofit) Safety System: A Case History

• Tino Vande Capelle, Mufeed Al-Ghumgham, Michel Houtermans - Reliability Engineering and Data Collection for the Purpose of Plant Safety and Availability

• Martin Schrape - Implementing high diagnostic coverage for SIL 3 systems on a standard microcontroller

• Günter Greil - FOUNDATION™ Technology: Solution For Plant Safety Instrumented Functions

• Ian R. Hitchen - Determination of the Safety Integrity Level for a Safety Instrumented Function

For the 2nd issue (Fall 2009) we currently have the following articles:

• Mufeed Al-Ghumgham - Is Safety and Reliability Two Faces of the same Coin for Ammonia Plant ESD System?

• Dieter Wenker - Functional Safety of Gas Detection Systems – System Architecture – Relation to Metrological

• Till Schmidberger, Thomas Scherf, Alexander Fay - Knowledge-based support of HAZOP studies using a CAEX plant model

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