How to Improve the Trust in Safety Related Instruments
Abstract
Yearly Instrument Protective Functions (IPF) reports for safety critical elements are common practice in the oil and gas and petrochemical industry. Including mean time between failures (MTBF) calculations and fail to danger/ fail to safe evaluations, they give an overview about the integrity of the installed based instruments and help to define eventual engineering adjustments. However, input information for the IPF reports are often manually entered on paper or in excel sheets which is inefficient, costly and subject to human errors. Plants sometimes cannot retrieve or store the instrument data because the infrastructure is not there to connect to directly. The method of monitoring process safety and fire & gas instrument within the oil and gas and petrochemical industry needs to evolve. Operators need to be able to trust their instruments and rely on actual, accurate and controlled real-time data. What if the process safety instrument data were automatically entered in a process safety maintenance management system? IPF reports could be customized and generated any time, instrument maintenance activities could be triggered by predefined conditions, etc. The possibilities are extensive. By using an automatic process safety maintenance management system, the reliability of safety related instrument can be improved, company risks can be reduced, and the efficiency of testing and can be increased.
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PresentationSubject
Instrument IntegrityCollections
Citation
Last, Wolter (2019). How to Improve the Trust in Safety Related Instruments. Mary Kay O'Connor Process Safety Center; Texas &M University. Libraries. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /193401.