Article Downloads & TDS Blog
The following articles will provide further insight into the TDS approach. You are invited to submit your comments on the TDS Blog.
Protection
Who's Afraid of IEC61508? [Discussion of pragmatic approach to this standard]
Who's Afraid of ATEX/DSEAR? [Discussion of pragamatic approach to these requirements]
Process Control
Process Control: Enhanced Dynamics-Enhanced Profits [Discussion of scope for enhanced regulatory control]
Process Automation: Beware the Reality Gap [Discussion of untapped potential in conventional regultory control technologies]
Process Control: How to Look Like a Hero! [Discussion of prgmatic approach to control system projects]
Measurement
Process Measurement Calibration Why? What? When? How? Who? [Discussion of requirements and approaches for measurement calibration ]
Measurement System Management [Calculation of calibration intervals and model approach for establishing procedures]
Management
Safety Management; Beware the Reality Gap [Discussion of Safety Management concerns]
Bring Back the Slide Rule? [Discussion of potential hazard from over reliance on computer analysis]
Clowning Around; Aligning Business and Resource Vectors [Discussion of potential for distortion of business objectives]
Over Egging the Competence Pudding? [Discussion of HSE draft guidance on competence]
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