Trouble Shooting Manuals (TSMs) provide useful information and guidelines for machinery maintenance, in particular, for fault isolation given a failure mode. TSMs produced by OEMs are usually updated based on feedback or requests from end users. Performing such update is very demanding as it requires collecting information from maintenance practices and integrating the new findings into the tro...

BACKGROUND Intravenous potassium chloride (IV KCl) solutions are widely used in hospitals for treatment of hypokalemia. As ampoules of concentrated KCL must be diluted before use, critical incidents have been associated with its preparation and administration. Currently, we have introduced ready-to-use diluted KCl infusion solutions to minimize the use of high-alert concentrated KCl. Since this...

Historically, tailings facilities have been designed primarily with consideration of the mine’s active life. This is problematic, as lifespan a dam may far exceed life mine. Over time, it expected that these structures will transform into mine waste structure and then eventually landform. In Alberta, Canada, owners can submit decommissioning, closure, abandonment (DCA) plan completion reports t...

The advancement and proliferation of information technology has made it possible for specified functions of systems including safety-critical systems to be software driven. Traditional failure analysis techniques existed before computers and are widely used in the failure analysis of hardware. Typically, hardware failures are random while software failures are systematic and this makes software...

Abstract With the quest for enhancing competitive position, fulfilling customer and sustainability demands, increasing profitability, asset manufacturing companies are now adapting assets towards product service systems (PSS) offered through performance contracts. Despite several benefits, shift to PSS exposes industrial manufacturers' challenges risks. Currently, designers face a challenge exh...

Quadcopters are playing an increasingly important role in a variety of industries due to their numerous advantages over other types aircraft. Additionally, quadcopters susceptible damage, and repair can be costly. On the hand, today, reliability is recognized as critical design feature most industries. A device's one complex issues field engineering since it provides engineers with insight into...

The pipeline industry's existing and new safety challenges require flexible powerful techniques for performing a risk-based analysis of cross-country petroleum product systems. One the traditional tools prediction failure is Failure Mode Effects Analysis (FMEA) technique due to its ease application. However, many limitations have been identified in application especially pipelines developing co...