A single source of truth for your Safety Instrumented System (SIS) Lifecycle

Powerful machinery, flammable chemicals, and high-pressure processes can all readily lead to dangerous or even fatal situations. The process industry, particularly the oil, gas, and chemical sectors, is known to have several hazards that can pose a risk to people, the environment, and company assets. As a result, any company operating with hazardous equipment and/or materials must identify potential hazards on site and design safeguards against such hazards. Many plants rely on Safety Instrumented Systems (SIS) to assist in addressing these potential failures.

The Safety Instrumented System (SIS) Lifecycle management involves collaboration between various disciplines and studies, from HAZOP and LOPA reports to SIF design verification and SIF test procedures. Due to its complexity and multidisciplinary needs, the SIS lifecycle is exposed to complications of dynamic engineering processes in ever-changing environments. The optimal solution for these complications is to provide a single source of truth for all the relevant disciplines involved throughout the lifecycle. This journey starts with selecting the right software.

IMS SIS: A single source of truth for your SIS lifecycle 

This comprehensive cloud-based tool will support the complete safety lifecycle management process as per IEC61508 & IEC61511. The offline functionality and 2D and 3D capabilities enhance the flexibility of using the software. IMS covers all relevant modules for your SIS lifecycle journey: 

• HAZOP

Map and rank the hazards of complex systems in terms of risk.

• LOPA

Determine whether the risk associated with scenarios from the HAZOP is sufficiently mitigated to “tolerable” levels.

• SIF Analysis

Allocate Safety Functions to minimise the residual risk and meet the criteria of the consequence severity assigned. Calculate your SIL levels with ease in this module to ensure that your SIFs’ overall PFD are met.

• SIF Test Scheduling

The ultimate output of this process will be a list of SIF components with required Proof Test intervals. With this data in place, the maintenance department on a site can schedule the proof test and record the results to ensure that the required level of risk reduction is guaranteed throughout the mission time of the SIF loop.

Who is it for?

Both new projects, as well as existing brownfield installations, can enjoy a range of benefits from IMS SIS. Greenfield projects can configure their database to meet their project requirements, while Brownfield installations can leverage a wide range of import capabilities to quickly get them up and running with IMS SIS.

Inside IMS SIS

Below we explore in more depth the key features of IMS SIS:

• Test Scheduling module: Create Test Schedules for your SIF equipment Proof Tests
• Proof Test procedure: Create a Proof Test procedure for your SIF equipment using Dynamic Forms.
• Condition History module: Upload the results of a field Proof Test from a tablet to the Condition History module.
• Single point of entry for all SIS Lifecycle discipline engineers: All discipline engineers access the same information from the same point of entry (URL) from anywhere in the world.
• Comprehensive User Management functionality: Define user access per module and assign editing rights based on the capabilities and role of every individual user.
• Access exclusive failure rate data: IMS SIS comes with a comprehensive equipment failure rate database that is built on years of data from reliable and safe operations from one of the world’s biggest and most respected oil, gas, and chemicals companies, Shell.
• Create Custom Dashboards: Create dashboards tailored to your needs.

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