Stewart, L.
Loren Stewart is a Senior Safety Engineer for exida. She has more than 10 yr of experience and focuses on the mechanical aspects of exida’s customers. Along with assessing the safety of products and certifications, she is an exida Academy instructor, teaching classes involving IEC 61508 and IEC 61511, and conducting monthly webinars on functional safety. She has also co-authored a book on safety instrumented systems, Final Elements in Safety Instrumented Systems – IEC 61511 Compliant Systems and IEC 61508 Compliant Products. Ms. Stewart earned a BSME degree from Virginia Tech.
Optimizing failure data analysis
A critical objective of engineers who design an automatic protection system is to lower the false trip rate and to lower a key metric called average probability of failure on demand (PFDavg).
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