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News Release from: Fieldbus Foundation | Subject: SIF demo plans
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 18 May 2007
World venues for hosting SIF field
demonstrations
The Safety Instrumented Functions (SIF) demonstration project organised by the Fieldbus Foundation has been expanded to include multiple end user locations around the world
Plans now call for field demonstrations of Foundation for Safety Instrumented Functions at Shell Global Solutions, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Saudi Aramco, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia; BP, Gelsenkirchen, Germany; and Chevron, Richmond, California, USA No changes were required to the existing Foundation protocol to add the SIF protocol extensions
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 18 Nov 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Fieldbus Foundation has developed specifications for safety instrumented functions in cooperation with the world's leading automation end users, controls manufacturers, and safety experts.
The field demonstrations will promote adoption of Foundation SIF technology in the process industries.
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Companies participating in the demonstration working group include: ABB, BIFFI, BP, Chevron, Dresser-Masonelian, Emerson Process Management, Endress+Hauser, Fieldbus Diagnostics, HIMA, Honeywell, Invensys, Magnetrol, Metso Automation, Moore Industries, MTL, Pepperl+Fuchs, Risknowlogy BV, Saudi Aramco, Siemens, Shell Global Solutions, Smar, Softing, TopWorx, TUV Rheinland, TUV Sud, Westlock Controls, and Yokogawa.
The Fieldbus Foundation director of technology development, David A Glanzer, said, "Our SIF project continues to gain momentum, as leading automation equipment suppliers and end users lend their support to developing Foundation solutions for standards-based safety instrumented functions.
We are pleased that a growing list of major users have agreed to take part in our technology demonstration".
He added, "The Fieldbus Foundation undertook this project at the urging of its end users, who are realising significant operating benefits in their non-safety systems through their use of the technology.
By extending Foundation technology into Safety Instrumented Functions, they see the opportunity for the additional economic benefits of its native predictive diagnostics".
The Fieldbus Foundation SIF protocol meets the rigorous requirements of the IEC 61508 standard for functional safety of electrical, electronic and programmable electronic safety-related systems, up to, and including, Safety Integrity Level (SIL) 3.
In addition, end users can build systems per the IEC 61511 standard covering SIF functional safety in the process industries (IEC 61511 is available as the ANSI/ISA-84.00.01-2004 standard).
The Fieldbus Foundation worked closely with TUV Rheinland Industrie Service , Automation, Software and Information Technology, a global, independent and accredited testing agency, to achieve Protocol Type Approval for its SIF specifications.
With TUV Protocol Type Approval, Foundation technology has been extended to provide a comprehensive solution for safety instrumented functions.
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