Abstract
Manchester & Chester Local Section were pleased to host a series of presentations by Metso Automation on 29 January. The three lectures titled ‘Improving efficiency by using control valve diagnostics’ were presented by Bill Chell and Colin Mather both of Metso. The fist lecture in the morning was at Manchester University to MSc Control & Automation students. The second was at Liverpool John Moores University to Electrical & Electronic BSc students. Attendance for both was excellent, each having about 30 students present. The evening lecture to the Local Section at Runcorn had to be cancelled due to snow!
Tom Nobes (Manchester & Chester Programme Secretary) said, Thanks to Metso for a great days outreach to local students. These are potential future customers and InstMC members. It’s great to be re-establishing our links with academia. Bill and Colin did a great job. Thanks also to Prof Hong Wang and Cliff Mayhew at the universities for the logistics of the lectures.
Delivering Functional Safety – are we nearly there yet?
A one day conference being planned for November 12th 2015 (provisional) by the Teesside Section of the Institute of Measurement and Control.
Call for Papers
The Functional Safety 2014 Conference organised by the Safety Panel of the Institute was intended as the first biennial conference on the subject taking place in London. As a complimentary activity the Teesside Section of the Institute are planning to organise a one day conference to build on key themes from Functional Safety 2014 and focussing on Process industry applications and the later stages of the Safety lifecycle. The Conference will take place at a venue on Teesside (provisionally on the day after the Teesside Section Annual Exhibition).
Themes that could usefully be addressed by papers include:
Functional Safety Management (policy, procedures, strategy, planning etc.)
Roles & Responsibilities including competence
Performance monitoring of SIS and analysis of performance data.
Stage 4 FSAs (including adequacy of legacy documentation, e.g. SRS, validation records)
Audit and Revision
Systematic Capability and Minimising Systematic Failure
Proof Testing practice and issues
If you would like to present a paper at the conference, please initially submit a title and synopsis of your proposed paper, identifying which theme(s) it will address (max 250 words) to the organising committee via