Fault diagnosis and prognosis methods are the most useful tools for risk reliability analysis in food processing systems. Proactive techniques such as failure mode effect (FMEA) important detecting all probable failures facilitating process. However, significant uncertainties exist classical-FMEA when it comes to ranking priority numbers (RPNs) of modes. Such may have an impact on sector’s oper...

Functional safety analysis (FSA), that is checking whether a designed artifact will perform safely even under the presence of failing components, has gained significant importance in different areas, including aeronautic and automotive systems. The same applies to failure-modes-and-effects analysis (FMEA) and fault-tree analysis (FTA) as the major contributing processes. FSA is laborand time-co...

Functional safety analysis (FSA), that is checking whether a designed artifact will perform safely even under the presence of failing components, has gained significant importance in different areas, including aeronautic and automotive systems. The same applies to failure-modes-andeffects analysis (FMEA) and fault-tree analysis (FTA) as the major contributing processes. FSA is laborand timecons...

Reliability prediction methods for early design stages suffer from the lack of empirical failure data. However, expert knowledge and data from similar in-service components are information sources ready available. In this work, an expert elicitation procedure for failure rate prediction is presented. In contrast to direct elicitation procedures such as FMEA, relations to in-service components a...

Safety critical systems are systems whose operational deviations can potentially lead to catastrophic consequences or loss of human lives. These systems are widely employed in various industries, including the automotive, aerospace, weapons and nuclear industries. Today‟s modern safety-critical systems often incorporate numerous embedded control components, involve various engineering disciplin...

This paper explores how the safety engineering practices applied to the aircraft design can be effectively associated to the MBSE. Requirements and procedures of the ARP4754/ED-79 and ARP4761 were considered. As an example the fuel system of a civil aircraft was used. Some key issues were found relevant, whilst modeling the system through the MBSE tools. The management of both the functional an...