Lead with Process Safety

Wood fiber requires a comprehensive approach to sparks/fire detection, suppression, explosion protection, and notification

• We offer extensive integrated design expertise to ensure your equipment and process fire protection systems work reliably and take automated action when required

Achieve full compliance with expertise

• Environments where combustible dust is present require area classification as part of any fire safety system design.
• Cogent can help you navigate standards – whether in North America or Europe – enabling you to select the correct classifications, specifying requirements, and locating equipment to achieve full compliance within your plant environments.

Mitigate risk before the alarm sounds

• A properly integrated fire system provides full situational awareness at your fingertips during an event.
• Proper designs must also accommodate local standards and address the correct monitoring, notification, and safe exiting in a timely manner.
• Cogent can help you do all that and more, assuring that your fire alarm system addresses all applicable standards and personnel safety.

Protect your business from the risk of power

• Cogent helps assure that your industrial electrical systems are designed and installed to safeguard employees from electrical shocks, mitigate fire risks, and minimize risk to personnel.
• Cogent also provides engineering services to design your electrical system to minimize and manage arc flash risks.

Design for safety – from the operator down to the device

• Cogent helps you meet heightened demands for safe operations.
• Cogent designs process safety into every project.
• Cogent integrates safety into every equipment process to decrease the incidence of safety issues, industrial accidents, and safety device failures.

Cogent’s industrial safety design services help you protect high-risk areas such as thermal oil and hydraulic rooms from catastrophic events

• Environments where combustible dust is present require area classification as part of any fire safety system design
• Deployment of fire protection solution solutions such as foam systems and effective compartmentalization of building and various monitoring systems

Meet industry standards with ease

• Cogent’s expertise in safety system design helps you meet complex functional safety requirements.
• Our team will work closely with your stakeholders to ensure compliance to safety standards such as ISO 13849 and IEC 61508.

Cogent’s emergency shutdown systems are designed to reduce the potential risks to equipment and personnel

• We develop and deploy automated shutdown systems that take over in the event of a critical process upset condition that is beyond operator control
• Ensure process safety, electrical safety, and fire protection