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Introduction
Background to legacy safety systems
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Increased application of E/E/PES technology
platforms over the last 30 years
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Asset Owners will have had good and/or poor
experience in terms of reliability and availability
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Operation and maintenance processes will have
been developed to address:
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Equipment lifecycle and spares availability issues
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Additional spurious tripping caused by increasing
system degradation
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Set against a backdrop of continued high profile
industry incidents
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A changing regulatory and standards backdrop on
meeting minimum expectations and industry good
practice i.e. IEC61511