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4/3/25, 4:31 PM HIMA’s automatic safety test solution supports BASF new Verbund Site in Zhanjiang | iHeartEmirates
28March 2025 – BASF’s largest new construction project in China, the Zhanjiang Verbund Site

Project (ZVSP), requires high personnel and time expenditures for tests, especially Factory

Acceptance Test (FAT), Integration Factory Acceptance Test (IFAT) and loop tests. To reduce
these efforts, BASF has opted for the HIMA Smart Safety Test, integral part of SILworX®,

HIMA’s engineering, diagnostics and test tool which enables a flexible, automated test concept

over the entire life cycle of a safety system.

The FAT and IFAT for the first segments of the plant was carried out traditionally. After the

manual execution, it became clear that a new way needed to be followed in order to meet the
high-ranking project objectives and to increase efficiency. This, amongst other aspects is born

by the complexity of the start and stop sequences to be tested.

So, the decision was made to automate future tests with the HIMA Smart Safety Test.By doing
so, fully testing of all static functions as well as the sequences got automatically tested and the

test evidence got created and documented automatically.

Reflecting timelines and dimensions of this capital investment of BASF in China, new ways of
implementing the safety functionalities where required to achieve the project objectives while

maintaining plant safety of the highest level achievable. Based on a close collaboration between

BASF and HIMA engineers a new concept for testing and verification of safety functions got

implemented across the entire project.

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