{"product_id":"automatic-protection-charles-vance-9798182098731","title":"Automatic Protection: Designing and Governing Safety in the Modern Process Plant","description":"A unit keeps tripping on a transmitter that has gone bad, and someone asks the obvious question: why not just disable the trip?\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAutomatic Protection\u003c\/i\u003e is the answer to that question - and to the hundred others like it that quietly decide whether a protective system actually protects.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten for the engineers who build and maintain protective systems in \u003cb\u003eIgnition\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eRockwell\u003c\/b\u003e, this is a working field guide to getting automatic protection right. It starts from first principles - what bad quality really means, why fail-safe is a design choice, how a cause-and-effect matrix becomes the law of the plant - then moves through voting architectures, SIL, and LOPA, and into the controller logic, the HMI annunciation, and the forensic record that proves what happened after a trip. It closes with the operations discipline that keeps protection sound for decades: bypasses and overrides, alarm floods, proof testing, and management of change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne argument runs through every chapter: \u003cb\u003ethe conflict between safety and availability is almost always an artifact of a single transmitter, and the fix is architecture, not amputation.\u003c\/b\u003e When a trip is costly, you buy back availability with redundancy and good design - you do not quietly remove a layer of protection and hope.\u003c\/p\u003eInside this book\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBad quality, fail-safe, and the integrity of the signal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCause-and-effect matrices as the design authority\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVoting architectures: from 1oo1 to 2oo3\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSIS vs. BPCS, SIL, and layer-of-protection analysis\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProtective logic in Rockwell; alarming and annunciation in Ignition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFirst-out, sequence of events, and post-trip forensics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBypasses, proof testing, and management of change\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlainspoken, standards-aware (\u003cb\u003eISA 18.2, IEC 61511, NAMUR\u003c\/b\u003e), and built on real plant experience, it is the book to hand the new engineer - and the one to keep beside the keyboard when the pressure is on to take a shortcut.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Charles Vance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798182098731\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/21\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.63lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d","brand":"Charles Vance","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173835579647,"sku":"9798182098731","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/automatic-protection-charles-vance-9798182098731","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}