8th International Symposium

Programmable Electronic Systems in Safety Related Applications

Why is Safety so HARD ?

Warum ist Sicherheit

so schwer ?

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 Warum ist
Sicherheit so
schwer?

Why is Safety
so HARD?

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 It isn’t just safety

SIS

Alarm Management

Operations

Training

Company Goals

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 Building SIS in a vacuum

SIS has to be part of

an overall proactive
safety strategy

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 Building SIS in a vacuum

SIS must also be

part of an overall
proactive security
strategy

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 Alarm Management…really

Alarm management:
cure or symptom?

Make the operator

more effective

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 Alarm Management…really

Optimizing the HMI

and using operators
correctly are all part
of what we’re calling
alarm management

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 Alarm Management…really

Like safety, alarm

management must
be a continuous
process…

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 Alarm Management…really

Like safety, there must

be support from highest
management levels…

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 Physical Security

Perimeter security

Personnel location

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 Cyber Security

How do you protect

systems that were
designed to be
inherently open?

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 Training that means something

90 days on nights
isn’t enough

Training for the
future…how?

…and who?

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 Realtime Operations Management

Corporate
management still
needs to buy into
RTOM

Sometimes you
have to have your
back to the wall…

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 The company vision

Levi Leathers’
vision: Operating
Discipline

Operating safely
could be the next
“green”

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 So how do we get there?

You can’t sell fear

Good intentions
aren’t good enough

We have to show
that it pays

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 Getting there will NOT be easy

Raising
automation to
the business
level

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 Raising Automation to the Business Level

Moving to a
higher order of
technology

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 Raising Automation to the Business Level

Crossing the
REAL chasm…

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 Raising Automation to the Business Level

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 Raising Automation to the Business Level

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 CEO
Business Measurement Business Operations

CFO COO
Financial Enterprise Management
Monthly Reporting

Daily Production Management

Plant Resource Management

Real Time
sensors and control systems
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 Raising Automation to the Business Level
CEO
Business Measurement Business Operations

CFO COO
Financial Enterprise Management
Reporting Cycle Reporting

Real Time
Production Management
Production Cycle Accounting

Plant Resource Management

Real Time Real Time
Performance
Measures
sensors and control systems
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 Raising the Automation Professional
to the Business Level

Smarter
controls need
smarter people

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 Raising the Automation Professional
to the Business Level

Moving to a higher order of

technology

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 Raising the Automation Professional
to the Business Level

Business process
analysis and
control

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 Why is Safety so HARD?

So, just where

does that leave
YOU?

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 Hero or Goat?

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