Conduct of operations: A control system for your most important safety component

✍ Scribed by Paul Haas; Guy Hager

• Book ID: 105358946
• Publisher: American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 388 KB
• Volume: 19
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1066-8527
• DOI: 10.1002/prs.680190103

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Instrumentation and control engineers go to great lengths to ensure availability and operability of control and information display systems for process system operation, especially for safety systems. It is critically important to maintain equipment performance within the bounds of safe operation. The most crucial safety components in your facility are the human beings controlling, maintaining, monitoring, and managing the process and equipment. Have you ever given much thought to the control systems operated by humans in your facility?