Section 18

Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS)
& Layers of Protection
Section 18
Smart Safety Instrumented System
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TABLE of CONTENTS
▪ Overview
▪ Why it Matters
▪ What is a Smart SIS?
▪ Intelligent Field Devices
▪ Digital Communications
▪ Smart Logic Solvers
▪ Complete Loop Solution
▪ Smart SIS Implementation

Overview


OVERVIEW
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Engineering Bus
OPC Bus
Safety Bus
Serial Bus
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OVERVIEW
▪ Protecting the safety of a plant, personnel, and
community requires an SIS with both very high safety
and high availability.
▪ In the long run, IEC 61511 compliance will help to
reach these goals more easily and profitably. But it can
also require lots of up-front work. And while ensuring
safety is always top priority, the words "spend as much
time and money as you need" are seldom heard in
plants.


OVERVIEW
▪ Fortunately, advances in technology have led to the
emergence of what's called a smart SIS — and eased
the task of providing the safety and availability you
require.
▪ A smart SIS extends the proven technologies of digital
plant architectures to safety applications.


OVERVIEW
▪ These technologies include microprocessor-equipped
field devices, digital communications, asset management
software, and related improvements in system design
and integration.
▪ As a result, a smart SIS delivers many of the same
benefits such architectures provide in control-oriented
applications — including easier implementation,
operations, and maintenance; increased availability; and
lower life cycle costs. But a smart SIS is built for safety-
specific functions, and the system as a whole is designed
to ease IEC 61511 compliance.


OVERVIEW
▪ This section outlines both the key features of a smart
SIS and some of the primary benefits it provides.
▪ The contents should provide a better understanding of

why a smart SIS is likely to be the best choice for many
plants — possibly including yours.

Why it Matters


WHY IT MATTERS?
▪ Plants are inherently dangerous. The SIS is supposed to
protect against many of those dangers, but it can not
do that unless all its components are working properly.
▪ The problem is that the performance of those
components will eventually degrade or fail. With
traditional SIS technology, there may be no warning
that such problems are going to happen, and possibly
no way of knowing even after a failure has occurred —
leaving the plant unprotected.

WHY IT MATTERS?
▪ Certainly, it is possible to improve the odds that the
SIS is working correctly by frequently shutting down
the plant to run proof tests and do preventive
maintenance. But the lost production and added labor
costs make that an expensive solution.


WHY IT MATTERS?
▪ It's a little like driving a car without being able to see
the warning gauges on the dashboard.
▪ To reduce the risk of breakdowns, you would have to
stop every few miles to check the radiator, change the
oil, and even perform a complete tune-up - spending a
lot of time and money without getting very far. If
something went wrong between those frequent
checkups, there would still be no way of knowing
about it until you saw smoke or the car ground to a
halt.


WHY IT MATTERS?
▪ As will be seen from this section, a smart SIS can give
a much better view of what's happening, so we can be
sure that the system is doing the job satisfactorily —
or if something needs attention.
▪ To take the dashboard analogy even further, a smart
SIS also provides more than an uninformative "check
engine" light indicating that something, somewhere,
has already gone wrong. Instead, it is possible to get a
clear picture of what and where the problem is, often
while there's still time to take corrective action.

WHY IT MATTERS?
▪ Many of the technologies behind this predictive
intelligence also help overcome other limitations of
traditional SIS solutions — from reducing the cost and
difficulty of SIS design, implementation, operations,
and maintenance, to easing compliance with IEC
61511.


What is a Smart SIS?


Asset
WHAT IS A SMART SIS? management
software
Logic solvers
Process & equipment

information
Sensors Final control

elements


WHAT IS A SMART SIS?
▪ A smart SIS includes the primary components of any SIS
sensors, final control elements, and logic solvers but
adds the benefits of digital intelligence throughout an
integrated safety loop.
▪ A smart SIS takes advantage of information flow
throughout the complete safety loop. This flow
includes not only traditional measurement and control
data, but additional information on equipment and
process health.


WHAT IS A SMART SIS?
In the next five topics we'll take a closer look at key
aspects of a smart SIS:
▪ Intelligent field devices
▪ Digital communications
▪ Smarter logic solvers
▪ Asset-management software
▪ Complete-loop solutions

Intelligent Field Devices


INTELLIGENT FIELD DEVICES
▪ The difference between traditional and smart safety
instrumented systems begins with intelligent SIS
sensors and SIS digital valve controllers.
▪ These devices use onboard microprocessors to collect,
manage, and communicate not only process variables
and control signals, but also information about the
status of the devices themselves, related equipment,
and even the surrounding process.


▪ This information enables diagnostics to detect,
identify, and even predict problems that could lead to
poor safety or undermine SIS reliability diagnostics
that include not only the system components
themselves but also the surrounding process and
equipment.


▪ For example, a smart temperature transmitter can
signal when it detects a failed temperature probe. A
Coriolis flowmeter can identify slug flow or a pressure
transmitter can alert you when surrounding conditions
such as a steam leak have raised the temperature in its
electronics enclosure beyond normal operating limits.


▪ Similarly, a smart digital valve controller can signal a
loss of air supply pressure, or increasing stem friction
that could keep the valve from moving properly when
needed.
▪ But traditional 4-20 mA analog field communications
carry only a single, one-way signal on each wire pair.
How does all this new information move through the
safety loop?


Digital Communications
Fieldbus Network
Meter/ Analog Analog

PID
Transmitter Input Output
Valve
Control
Process


DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS
▪ HART communications carry the added information
from intelligent field devices throughout the loop, as
digital data superimposed on the normal 4-20mA
signal.
▪ The digital information can flow in both directions.
Not only can a smart transmitter send its process
variable and status information to the logic solver and
asset-management application, but it can also receive
data — for configuration or calibration, for example,
(even signal a blocked impulse line).






▪ Although HART data can be used to predict and
identify potential problems, it is not certified for use
as the sole source of information for safety-related
decisions.
▪ The expansion of all-digital protocols such as
PROFIBUS or FOUNDATION Fieldbus networks to safety
applications is expected to provide even more robust
and flexible communications in the not-too-distant
future including safety-certified information.


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system station system
Industrial Ethernet
Fail-safe, fault-tolerant
High-availability And high availability
ET 200M redundant/ ET 200M redundant/

non-redundant non-redundant
Standard Standard/
Safety-related
ET 200SP ET 200iSP
Redundant/non-redundant redundant/non-redundant
Standard Standard
ET 200S
ET 200S
PROFIBUS PROFIBUS
Standard Standard/
Safety-related

Smart Logic Solvers


SMART LOGIC SOLVERS
▪ The logic solvers in a smart SIS have been specifically
designed to take advantage of the added information
available from the system's intelligent sensors and
valve controllers.


SMART LOGIC SOLVERS
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Engineering
Tools DeltaV Control Network
For greater
availability,
the SLS 1508
logic solvers
are optionally
redundant


SMART LOGIC SOLVERS
For example, a smart SIS recognizes when an input is bad
or even questionable. The logic solver evaluates the
information and, depending on how it is configured for
each set of circumstances, can respond by:
▪ Raising an alarm to Operations or Maintenance
▪ Bypassing the faulty measurement and using data from
another device in a redundant set until the first can be
checked
▪ Tripping the safety function

Complete Loop Solution


COMPLETE LOOP SOLUTION
▪ The ability to gather, interpret, and use information
about the condition of the whole loop also enables a
more comprehensive view of SIS status and reliability
than can be achieved with traditional solutions.
▪ The logic solver in a smart SIS not only knows whether
it's working correctly, but also if the SIS field devices
are doing the same. That means it knows whether it
can use the information from sensors to make safety
decisions, and whether the final control elements will
respond if needed.


Sources of SIS failures

Sensors Logic solvers
Final
elements
OREDA = Offshore Reliability Data


▪ This is especially important considering that over 85% of
problems affecting the operation of an SIS are related
to the field devices, not the logic solver.
▪ A smart SIS uses diagnostics and digital communications
to "see" what's happening not only in the logic solvers,
but throughout the complete safety loop, including
field-device problems that lead to most SIS failures.
▪ In other words, with a smart SIS it is possible to know
what's happening in the weakest links of the safety loop
— usually with enough warning to take corrective action
before SIS reliability is affected.
Lower Costs


LOWER COSTS
▪ Like the digital plant architecture on which it is based,
a smart SIS can significantly reduce up-front costs for
engineering, installation, and commissioning.
▪ For example, graphical function blocks ease design
and reduce system configuration time. And digital
status checks eliminate the need to send a technician
into the field with a walkie-talkie to manually "ring
out" each device as it's installed.


LOWER COSTS
▪ But these activities are only the beginning of the safety
lifecycle. The operations and maintenance phase last
much longer and holds the greatest opportunities for cost
control.
▪ We have already seen how a smart SIS's automated
partial-stroke valve testing can extend the intervals
between proof tests. Besides the resulting savings from
reduced downtime, this capability also reduces
equipment and labor costs by eliminating the need for
expensive field-mounted test panels, and for sending
personnel into the field to conduct the tests and observe
the results.

LOWER COSTS
▪ These diagnostics can also reduce labor costs by eliminating the
need to send a maintenance technician into the field for routine
equipment checks — especially when it turns out there's nothing
wrong with the equipment.
Distribution of trips to the field

50%
No 63% Unnecessary
Problem Routine Required
Check
35%
28%
Calibration
Shift 20% Zero Plugged 4% Failed
Off 6% Lines 6% Instrument
0%

Smart SIS Implementation


SMART SIS IMPLEMENTATION
▪ Even a smart SIS will not offer the protection required
if it isn't implemented properly. The best way to be
sure the SIS will do the job when needed is to ensure
IEC 61511 compliance throughout a safety project.
▪ With the traditional project approach used by some
system integrators, however, full compliance can be a
challenging (and expensive) goal — especially if an
audit of the completed project reveals a problem.
Then it will be necessary to go back to the point
where the problem began and redo much of the work
that had already been completed.

▪ A smarter approach uses procedures designed and
certified to ensure IEC 61511 compliance right from the
start.
▪ Such procedures might include writing a comprehensive
safety requirements specification (SRS) and validating
that each safety instrumented function (SIF) achieves
the required risk reduction factor — as well as taking
advantage of smart SIS features like automated testing
and documentation.
▪ The table outlines some example differences between
the traditional and "smarter" approaches.

TRADITIONAL SMARTER
PROJECT PHASE APPROACH APPROACH IMPACT
Create safety Up-front work ensures

Project set-up None certification plan all activities required for
defining compliance are clearly
required activities defined and planned
No omissions or last
minute surprises


TRADITIONAL SMARTER
Use standard In the traditional

procedures to approach, success
System design & Use integrator’s
comply with depends on the
configuration standard
IEC61511 individual integrator’s
procedures
procedures and
Plan all
experience of personnel
required tests
involved
based on
With the smart approach
activities given
compliance is automatic
above


TRADITIONAL SMARTER
Pre FAT
( Factory Complete systems Smart approach avoids
Acceptance Test test according to cost and schedule impact
System test
). FAT - if pre-defined test of third party audit.
required and plan . Provides all test
third party FAT is required . documentation required
audit of all No third party by IEC 61511
project audit required
documentation
for IEC 61511
compliance


TRADITIONAL SMARTER
Amend design,
documentation, No rework
Rework required. Rework is not only
configuration and
System is expensive but can cause
SIF
automatically major delays
implementation
as required by compliant
audit findings


TRADITIONAL SMARTER
Third party No certification Besides being less costly

certification of required. than third party
Certification portions of the System is certification, automatic
project which automatically compliance covers the
were audited compliant full system.
( typically not the
entire system)

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