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Voting Philosophy

07/18/2010 9:25 AM

Hi Everybody,

Can anyone give a guidence pertaining to voting philosophy of Safety instrumented system.

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Karthick

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Re: Voting Philosophy

07/18/2010 9:54 AM

Yes, first define your terms. Safety should not be a democratically decided concern.

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07/19/2010 3:38 AM

Sorry, i am not getting the question " terms to be defined". Can you please write the same question in detail.

Is it possible to mention the voting philosophy without conducting a SIL study.

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07/19/2010 9:23 AM

Well first you should realize that despite this sub-group heading of "Instrumentation" this is a public forum on generic engineering concerns. It is not a dues paying qualified members only professional discussion board like the IEEE. With that being the case one should not assume that people will immediately understand any undefined form of technical jargon or acronym. This can be a CRIMINAL act. At the same time there are many people here that do have some very shrewd, practical insights on a variety of topics.

Now to the details of your posted question. My experience on voting involves a political campaign, a ballot box and a decision by the majority of votes cast. Voting philosophy is normally a private matter between the voter and the ballot box in this country but in some parts of this world one must vote the party line or suffer some consequence. Safety is trying to prevent something from having an undesirable outcome. Now these concepts can be forced together in a variety of different ways but to me they do not naturally flow from one to another. If you identify what you mean by your question then we might be able to provide you some useful ideas.

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07/19/2010 9:24 AM

Is it possible to mention the voting philosophy without conducting a SIL study.

Be specific is it Hazop or SIL Verfication Study

Any Ways Vanakam

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Jose

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07/18/2010 11:36 AM

One switch, one vote?

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07/19/2010 9:58 AM

I don't know if you meant for this question to be applied to logic strategies, or the political aspects of involving the industry in safety directives.

If your question is directed at things like arc fault protection, residential fire suppression apparatus in single family homes, environmental protection mandates, then you might have something I could talk about.

The former possible topic of your questions is probably a very good one for people who are experts in such things, but you would have to provide more information.

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