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Safety Equipment Reliability
Handbook (SERH) 4th edition

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Loren Stewart, CFSP
Bio
Loren Stewart graduated from Virginia Tech with a
BSME.
She has over 7 years of professional experience
originating in custom design and manufacturing
where she managed and was responsible in
supporting key clients. She currently works for
exida Consulting as a safety engineer, focusing on
the mechanical aspects of their customers. Along
with assessing the safety of products and
certifications, she continually researches and
published reports on stiction and is creating a
database for the 2H initiative according to IEC
61508.

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 About exida

exida is an end-user consulting, accredited product

certification, and research firm with significant expertise in
safety critical/high availability automation systems, control
system cybersecurity, alarm management, and process
safety. exida has performed more process control safety
certifications than any other company worldwide. exida’s
main offices are located in Sellersville, PA, USA and Munich,
Germany and has worldwide operations with service centers
in Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Netherlands, and New Zealand,
Singapore, Japan, South Africa, and the United Kingdom.

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exida Worldwide Locations

Main Offices
Regional Offices

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 Main Product / Service Categories

Consulting Engineering Product Training Reference Professional

Tools Certification Materials Certification
Process Process
Safety (IEC exSILentia Functional Safety Databases CFSE
61511, IEC (PHAx, Safety (IEC Control Tutorials CFSP
62061, ISO SIL Selection 61508) System Includes:
26262) LOPAx Textbooks
Control Security -Automotive
Alarm SRS System Reference
SIL Verification) Onsite Books -CACE/CACS
Management Cyber-
Safety Case Security Offsite -Hardware
Market
FMEDA Security Studies -Machinery
Control Network
System SILAlarm Robustness Development -Process
Security (ISA SILStat (Achilles) Alarm -Software
S99) CyberPHAx Management

Processes - Products - People

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 Engineering Tools
• ALARM Management
• PHAx™
• SIL Selection Tool
• Hazard Matrix or Risk Graph
• Layers of Protection Analysis built-in
• Safety function documentation
• SRS Tool
• SIL Verification Tool
• Direct average calculation engine
• Instrumentation failure database built-in
• Variables include reality – test coverage, service
• Proof Test Specification
• SILStat™ – Data Collection Tool
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 What is the SERH?
exida is pleased to announce the latest release of their failure
data book Safety Equipment Reliability Handbook (SERH) 4th
edition. The book set is a hard copy of exida’s SERH database
that contains a vast amount of equipment item reliability data.

The SERH provides a collection of failure rate data that is

applicable for use in Safety Instrumented System (SIS)
conceptual design verification in the process industry. The
Safety Equipment Reliability Handbook remains the ultimate
reference source for any safety engineer involved in
Conceptual Design and Safety Integrity Level verification.

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 What is the SERH?

Volume 01: Sensors

includes Fire and Gas, Flame Monitoring, Flow, Level, Pressure, Proximity, and
Temperature measurements
Volume 02: Logic Solvers and Interface Modules
includes Barriers, Surge protection devices, Relays, logic solvers, Fire and Gas
Systems, and solenoid drivers
Volume 03: Final Elements
includes Final Element interfaces such as solenoids and digital valve positioners,
Pneumatic interfaces such as Quick Exhaust valves, Actuators, Valves such as ball,
butterfly, gate, etc. valves, and Gas Pressure Regulating Valves The new edition has
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 What is the SERH?
In the 12 years since the first edition was published, the
number of equipment items with realistic failure rate data
has increased tremendously. The new edition has many new
manufacturers, taking it to over 200 different OEMs!

The Safety Equipment Reliability Handbook remains the

ultimate reference source for any safety engineer involved in
Conceptual Design and Safety Integrity Level verification.
Users of the data can trust that the data represented has
been reviewed in detail and judged applicable for use to
evaluate equipment items in Safety Instrumented Function
applications.
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“With the SERH, the amount of time needed to
research individual products and to determine
the applicability of the data to Safety
Instrumented Systems in the process industry,
virtually drops to zero.” says Joe Scalia, ARC
Advisory Group
“Having a single source of failure rate data
easily implemented by users’ SIL verification
calculations will improve effectiveness and
consistency.”
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 Who can the SERH help?
SIL Verification Customers:
• Quick and convenient data to use in calculations
• Effortless search of assessment levels in products to
determine whether to do Proven-In-Use verifications
• Save hours of research for each product providing
data for necessary calculations for the process
industry
• Avoid use of unrealistic data resulting in unsafe
designs
• Avoid expensive redesigns of systems after an
independent functional safety assessment is
accomplished

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 Who can the SERH help?
Conceptual design and Instrumental Engineers
• Convenient equipment selection saves time not having
to conduct research in which items have already been
evaluated for functional safety
• Quick and convenient data to use in calculations
• Effortless search of assessment levels in products to
determine whether to do Proven-In-Use verifications
• Save hours of research for each product providing data
for necessary calculations for the process industry
• Avoid use of unrealistic data resulting in unsafe designs
• Avoid expensive redesigns of systems after an
independent functional safety assessment is
accomplished
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 Features and Benefits
• Failure Data specific for Safety Instrumented System
Design and Verification for precise calculations
• Comprehensive data from FMEDA results including
• Failure Rates
• Useful Life
• Certification Status and SIL Capability
enabling an all-inclusive level of detail and analysis
along with advanced modeling tools, such as
ExSILentia, that will permit the customer to investigate
what type of coverage is expected and what credit can
be claimed for Safety Instrumented Functions.

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 Features and Benefits
• Numerous different manufacturers and equipment from
more than 200 OEMs enabling quick and easy searches
for certified function safety products
• Accurate and precise data for specific manufacturers and
products based on detailed analysis of product by the
exida predictive analytics qualifying accurate failure rates
and data for precise calculations
• The only product specific reliability data source on the
market allows you to save hours of research while
reviewing the largest collection of data available.

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What does the SERH encompass?
An expansive collection of equipment items comprised of
FMEDA results for:
• Volume 1: Sensors, including Fire and Gas, Flame Monitoring,
Flow, Level, Pressure, Proximity, and Temperature measurements
• Volume 2: Logic Solvers & Interface Modules, including Barriers,
Surge protection devices, Relays, logic solvers, Fire and Gas
Systems, and solenoid drivers
• Volume 3: Final Elements, including Final Element interfaces
such as solenoids and digital valve positioners, Pneumatic
interfaces such as Quick Exhaust valves, Actuators, Valves such
as ball, butterfly, gate, etc. valves, and Gas Pressure Regulating
Valves

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What does the SERH encompass?
An expansive collection of equipment items features:
• 100+ Different Pressure Measurement Devices
• 100+ Different Level Measurement Devices
• 90+ Different Fire and Gas Devices
• 50+ Different Temperature Devices
• 200+ Different Input Interface Modules
• 100+ Different Output Interface Modules
• 30+ Different PLCs
• 30+ Different Limited Function System and Relays
• 200+ Different Valves
• 100+ Different Actuators
• 150+ Different Final Element Interfaces (Solenoids)

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 Why upgrade to Edition 4?
Collection of equipment items has vastly increased since 3rd
Edition.
• New manufacturers
• Several new devices, for example the 4th Edition includes over 200
unique valves increased from 20 in the 3rd Edition
Products have been re-analyzed and/or new versions have
been included
Additional equipment information listed
• Route 1H or Route 2H
• Environmental profiles
• Internal Fault Detection Time
• Applicable Hardware and Software version

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 Architectural Constraints from
FMEDA Results
Route 1H - Safe Failure Fraction (SFF)
according to 7.4.4.2 of IEC 61508.

Safe Failures
Safe + Dangerous Failures

Route 2H - Assessment of the reliability data

for the entire element according to 7.4.4.3.3
of IEC 61508.
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 Route 2H

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 exida’s 2H database
• Summarizing all data collected to date
through assessments.
• 1B + hours on about 50% of the components
on the mechanical database
• Total of 100 B operating hours collected

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 Environmental Profiles
exida has divided atmospheres into 6 categories:
• Cabinet mounted/ Climate Controlled
• Low Power Field Mounted - no self-heating
• General Field Mounted – self-heating
• Subsea
• Offshore
• Process wetted

Each product is evaluated at the appropriate environment, which is listed

in the SERH along with the descriptions and conditions for each profile.

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Additional Reference Material
o exida authored most
industry references
for automation safety
and reliability
o exida authored
industry data
handbook on
equipment failure data
o exida authored the
most comprehensive
book on functional
safety in the market.

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