Cross-border multi-modal and railway transportation often faces different risks and problems creating delays, sometimes driven by technical or administrative discontents between countries. For cold supply chains, the risks of such delays get even more ...

Autonomous transport is receiving increasing attention, with research and development activities already providing prototype implementations. In this article we focus on Autonomous Passenger Ships (APS), which are being considered as a solution for ...

Failure mode, effects, and criticality analysis (FMECA) is a proactive quality tool that allows the identification and prevention of the potential failure modes of a process or product. In a conventional FMECA, for each failure mode, three risk parameters,...

In this paper, in order to improve the comprehensive reliability of the ship and improve its maintenance engineering, the domestic anti-rear device of a marine ship in China is taken as the research.The system structure and working principle of the anti-...

Failure mode, effects and criticality analysis (FMECA) is a prerequisite and significant task for reliability analysis of a safety critical complex system; meanwhile, it is complicated, error-prone and time-consuming due to the gap between a dedicated ...

Proposing an ELECTRE TRI-based approach for the failure modes classification into predefined and ordered risk classes.Direct identification of failure modes on which performing the corrective actions with priority.Easy definition of risk classes on the ...

In today’s business, it is almost impossible for any organization to close their eyes to the use of Information Technology (IT). The utilization of IT is usually given in a form of services called IT services which generally delivered not only for ...

Increasing demand diversity has resulted in high-mix low-volume production where success depends on the ability to quickly design and develop new products. This requires sustainable production capacities and efficient equipment utilization which are ...

Clean energy is an increasing concern as more and more countries pay attention to environmental protection, which brings the rapid development of wind power. More new wind farms and new wind turbines have been put into operation, this caused the problem ...

Automotive embedded systems are becoming increasingly complex. Therefore verification activities are paramount to ensure safety. ISO 26262 is the first standard specifically dedicated to automotive safety systems. This standard requires introducing ...

The reuse of software components is a common practice in commercial applications and increasingly appearing in safety critical systems as driven also by cost considerations. This practice puts dependability at risk, as differing operating conditions in ...

FMECA (Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis) is an effective systematic process to evaluate software safety. In this paper, the safety model of embedded systems is built by integrating the AADL (Architecture Analysis and Design Language) ...

Philips has developed a new Ultrasound system, ClearVue, targeted for emerging market countries such as India and China. The product has been developed at different global locations in the world, including North America, China and India. The authors are ...

This paper is based on a new Robotic Spinal Surgical System (RSSS) we have developed in last 2 years. This robotic surgical system focuses on pedicle screw implanting surgery, but can be used on some other orthopedic surgeries. Some safety design ...

The quality safety traceability of meat food has played important role in governmental law, food industry management strategies, and consumers. Many institution and software companies have developed a lot of traceability system. There is a growing ...

This paper addresses the problems associated with dependability analysis of complex information and control systems (I&CS). FME(C)A-technique is proposed as a unified approach to I&CS dependability assessment. Classic philosophy is extended by ...

The quality safety traceability of meat food has play important role in governmental law, food industry management strategies, and consumers. Many institution and software companies have developed a lot of traceability system. There is a growing ...

The paper presents a reliability assessment of a widely used protection system of large power squirrel cage induction motors. In conjunction with published field induction motors Failure data this assessment effort is based on a integrated predictive ...

Teollisuuden Voima Oy (TVO) operates two nuclear power plant units in Finland and has started to build a third one. The current nuclear power units have to continuously maintain and update existing instrumentation and control systems (I&C). Each new ...

The multiple reconfiguration and the complexity of the modern production system lead to design intelligent monitoring aid systems. Accordingly, the use of neuro-fuzzy technics seems very promising. In this paper, we propose a new monitoring aid system ...