From the press release:

exida CERTIFIES HONEYWELL’S SAFETY MANAGER FOR FUNCTIONAL SECURITY

Last week I hosted a webinar with exida's Bill Goble and ABB's Luis Duran on the elimination of the biggest argument against combining safety controls and process controls in the same system.

We"ve added this webinar to our knowledge centers and you can watch the recording here:

http://www.controlglobal.com/knowledge_centers/abb/index.html?DCMP=ILC-m...

We'd like to present Todd Stauffer, of exida, in his first
 ever podcast. This was produced by exida, and is called "Saved by the
 Bell: a look at ISA's new standard on alarm management." 
This podcast reviews ISA18.2 in detail...

I said yesterday that I'd blog further on why this agreement between Wurldtech and exida is important.

In an announcement I'd been expecting for some time, exida and Wurldtech have joined forces to provide subject matter expertise on the conjoined issues of functional safety and what I like to call "functional security."

Here's the press release...and in another blog post, I'll tell you why it is important and what I think it means for the future.

Wurldtech and exida Announce Global Partnership to Expand Cyber Security Certification

Process Safety: The Must Know

“Process Safety is getting less expensive to engineer and keep current,” said Bill Goble, principal partner and co-founder of exida, a provider of IEC 61508 Product Certification,
IEC 61511 Process Certification, Consulting Services on IEC 61511 and other standards, as well as Reference Books, Training and Safety Lifecycle Engineering Software Tools.

Goble provided a detailed overview of the state of the Safety Instrumented System world at the Siemens Automation S...

Press release just in from Jerry Moon at Emerson: 

EMERSON’S FISHER® CONTROL VALVES ARE FIRST TO BE SIL 3 CERTIFIED TO IEC 61508 STANDARDS

Certification simplifies safety standard compliance for customers
AUSTIN, TEXAS (June 9, 2008) -- Emerson Process Management has received SIL 3 certification of several ranges of its Fisher® valves to IEC 61508 standards. Emerson is the first control valve manufacturer to have achieved this independent third party certification which e...

From the press release:

exida Purchases Safety Lifecycle Tools Supplier ‘Asset Integrity Management’
 
Sellersville, PA - February 25, 2008 - exida.com®, LLC (exida), a privately held leading consulting and certification company to the process safety community, today announced it has completed the purchase of Asset Integrity Management (AIM) of Aberdeen, Scotland, U.K.
 
Dr. William Goble, exida’s principal partner says, “AIM and exida have been working under a mutually ben...