"Emerson Process Management vice president marketing and services, Hakan Erdamar, covered the importance of the company’s Safety Instrumented System (SIS), which offers more system uptime, safety integrity and architectural flexibility than traditional safety instru mented systems, he said. “A system that is able to utilise device diagnostics in a shutdown decision is clearly going to provide higher avail ability while maintaining the required safety level,” he said." - Mike Boudreaux from Bookmarklet