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Press Release

HIMA’s automatic safety test solution supports BASF new Verbund

Site in Zhanjiang

HIMA Smart Safety Test leads to time saving and drives efficiency at BASF’s
Zhanjiang Verbund Site Project in China.

28 March 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.

The new solution leads to a time saving and cost reduction. In addition, the test quality and

accuracy of individual tests could be optimized. Based on that a lot of small deficiencies
could be found and cleaned up during the process, which resulted in a faster FAT and IFAT.
Test reports that comply with the specifications, reducing a large amount of documentation –

including the handling of manual test reports.

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