Naranjo, E.
Emerson Automation Solutions, Saint Paul, Minnesota
Edward Naranjo is Director of Fire and Gas Systems for Emerson’s Rosemount products. He is an ISA Fellow and a certified functional safety engineer with 16 yr of experience in flame and gas detection. He holds a BS degree and a PhD, both in chemical engineering, from Caltech and the University of California, Santa Barbara, respectively, as well as an MBA degree from the University of Chicago.
ANSI/ISA-84 is one of the most influential standards in functional safety and has been a driver for instrumented process safety improvements over the last 20 yr. It is a comprehensive norm covering a wide range of aspects related to functional safety in process industries, including the entire life cycle of designing, implementing and operating safety systems.