Practical articles and regulatory updates written by engineers who work in the same environments you manage. No filler. No generic safety advice. Content that is relevant to the decisions you make and the standards you are held to.
Calibration is more than a date on a sticker. This guide explains how pressure, temperature and flow instruments are scoped, compared and documented, when clamp-on ultrasonic flow measurement is suitable, and what clients should prepare before requesting calibration.
IEC 61511 defines the requirements for safety instrumented systems in the process industry. For plant managers in South Africa, understanding what the standard requires, and what it means for your facility's safety lifecycle, is no longer optional. This article breaks down the key requirements in plain language.
A source-led guide to gas and dust zones, the current SANS 10108 and IEC 60079 standards picture, equipment selection, certification boundaries and the South African legal route.
A source-led guide to recurring optical interference, dirty or obstructed optics, field-of-view problems, configuration and logic, and faults in the wider detection chain.
A source-led guide to what HAZOP identifies, how SIL determination and LOPA use selected scenarios, and what must follow through the SRS, verification, validation and operating lifecycle.
A source-led guide to the evidence a credible F&G commissioning programme should produce, from FAT and loop checks to detector response, cause-and-effect testing, inhibit restoration and final handover.
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