Abstract:
The metals industry in Brazil and worldwide faces a challenge to reinvent itself and bring solutions aimed at sustainable production, with environmental responsibility, lower CO2 emissions into the atmosphere, and the highest standard of safety requirements for Safety Instrumented Systems. Operating with high availability and increasingly strict safety criteria is challenging. On March 14th, 2024, the standard NBR IEC 61511 was published, creating a new safety era in the Brazilian Process Industry. The standard is an essential milestone in the Brazilian industry, which will undergo profound transformations in process functional safety, with rigorous standards, risk analyses, determination of safety integrity levels, implementation of fault-tolerant control systems, and compliance with the most modern international standards. This essay presents a safety automation-based solution to fulfill the process safety standard requirements and its positive impact on the industry.