Understanding the safety life cycle as outlined in ISA/IEC 61511 isn’t enough to implement a safety system. You also need to know how to design, install, commission, and operate one, and to have access to real-world examples,” says author Simon Lucchini. Authors Lucchini and Paul Gruhn have compiled almost 80 years of real-life experience and lessons learned into this easy-to-read reference that contains real-world examples of designing, installing, commissioning, programming, managing, and maintaining safety instrumented systems.

This book covers the entire safety instrumented system life cycle; I’m not aware of any other book that does the same,” says Gruhn. What does this book do that others don’t?

• It provides a high-level overview of the ISA84/IEC 61511 standard.
• It explains how to align the performance requirements of ISA/IEC 61511 with project execution.
• It provides guidance for making the right decisions about safety systems at the right time.
• It provides insights about key project milestones so that functional safety engineers can create more effective designs.
• It analyzes actual situations and experiences to help people learn from the mistakes of others and to help them better troubleshoot their own applications.

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