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HIMA’s automatic safety test solution

supports BASF new Verbund Site in

Zhanjiang

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HIMA Smart Safety Test leads to time saving and drives efficiency at BASF’s Zhanjiang

Verbund Site Project in China.

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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

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