January 2010, SIS-TECH to facilitate Texas A & M Instrument Symposium Instrument Reliability Workshop.
The proper specification, installation and maintenance (mechanical integrity) of instruments and analyzers directly impact the safety and reliability of operating facilities. Members of the refining and process industry need the tools to capture/categorize both instrument and analyzer reliability data and the work processes to turn that data into useful information for continuous improvement.
Please make plans to attend and actively participate in this interactive workshop. This is especially important to all design engineers/technicians, maintenance engineers/technicians, and reliability engineers/technicians. Make your voice and needs heard, as we move forward in the development of a multi-generation plan to capture, categorize, and furnish field data to the Chemical Center for Process Safety Process Equipment Reliability Database (CCPS/PERD). A first generation database tool used to capture proof test and reliability data to be shared with PERD will be demonstrated.
This workshop will be held in room 401 of Rudder Tower on the Texas A & M campus. A link to the entire symposium content and information for registration is here.
July 2009, SIS-TECH IS CELEBRATING ITS TENTH ANNIVERSARY!
June 2009, Dr. Angela E. Summers elected ISA Fellow.Announcement from ISA
June 2009, SIS-TECH sponsors a BYU intern Letter from BYU
March 2009, Dr. Summers elected College of Engineering Fellow, The University of Alabama, 2009 ISA Fellow
March 2008, Dr. Summers elected Department of Chemical Engineering Fellow, The University of Alabama,
July 2007, SIS-TECH Introduces a Low-Cost, High Availability High Integrity Level Protection System (Full Story PDF)
May 2007, Angela E. Summers was inducted into the Automation Hall of Fame.
January 2007, Low-Cost, High-Availability Overfill Protection System- When designed, installed, operated, tested, and maintained in accordance with IEC 61511 standards, the Diamond-SIS provides >99.9% availability. It has been certified by Factory Mutual (FM) as fit for use in high integrity protection system applications up to and including Safety Integrity Level 3 ( SIL 3).
November 2006. A New Look At Coker Drum Switching and De-Heading. (Full Story, PDF)
September 2006. Ask Dr. A. (Full Story, PDF)
September 2006. SIS-Tech Introduces a Unique Solution for Safe and Reliable Coker Drum Switching & De-Heading Applications. (Full Story, PDF)
August 20, 2006. HIPS Applications Benefit from SIS-Tech's Diamond-SIS Non-Programmable Electronic Logic Solver (Full Story, PDF)
January 2006, Diamond-SIS™ suitable for HIPPS applications Diamond-SIS is a cost effective, stand-alone, logic solver that is easy to test, simple to maintain, yet it provides the high-availability required of HIPS applications. It has been certified by Factory Mutual (FM) as fit for use in HIPS applications up to and including Safety Integrity Level 3 (SIL 3).
September 3, 2005. Angela Summers Honored With Prestigious ISA Albert F. SperryAward (ISA News Release, PDF) and the Sperry Announcement
January 24, 2005. Lees' Loss Prevention
in the Process Industries : Hazard Identification,
Assessment and Control, 3rd edition, edited by Sam
Mannan of the Mary Kay O'Conner Process Safety Center,
Texas A&M University, is now available. Angela
E. Summers edited the new Safety Instrumented System
chapter. Purchase at www.amazon.com.
December 2004. SIS-TECH receives "Fit
for Use in Applications up to SIL 3," from Factory
Mutual for the Diamond-SIS product. Go to the Diamond-SIS
page for more information about this fault tolerant
non-PE logic solver.
October 2004. Angela Elaine Summers
received the 2004 Merit Award from the Mary Kay O'Conner
Process Safety Center (MKOPSC) at Texas A&M University.
Dr. Summers was recognized for her contributions in
supporting its vision to make process safety second
nature.
