FMEA has been used for several years and proved its efficiency for system’s risk analysis due to failures. Risk priority number found in FMEA is used to rank failure modes that may occur in a system. There are some guidelines in the literature to assign the values of FMEA components known as Severity, Occurrence and Detection. This paper propose a method to assign the value for occurrence in mo...

We investigated how constraints imposed by the concurrent visual context modulate the effects of prior gender and action cues as well as of stereotypical knowledge during situated language comprehension. Participants saw videos of female or male hands performing an action and then inspected a display showing the faces of two potential agents (one male and one female face) as they listened to Ge...

Computer-based advisory systems form with their users composite, human-machine systems. Redundancy and diversity between the human and the machine are often important for the dependability of such systems. We describe a case study on assessing failure probabilities for the analysis of X-ray films for detecting cancer, performed by a person assisted by a computerbased tool. Differently from most...

In this report presents our experience with automating parts of the FMEA process using a model checker. As the case study a minepump control system is used, that prevents flooding in a mineshaft

This paper presents a multidisciplinary approach to privacy. The subject is examined from an ethical, social, and economic perspective reflecting the preliminary findings of the EU-funded research project PRESCIENT. The analysis will give a comprehensive illustration of the dimensions’ unique and characteristic features. This will build the basis for identifying overlaps and developing synerget...

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...

Prognostics methods are being developed to evaluate the reliability of a system in its actual life-cycle conditions, to estimate the times to failure and to mitigate system risks. A key requirement in any prognostics method is identification of the appropriate parameter(s), which, can be used to asses impending failure, if monitored. This paper presents a physics-of-failure based methodology, w...

-In present era of automation and modernization, setting up of production plants involves huge capital investment especially for the process industry. The deterioration and failure of these systems might incur high costs due to production losses and delays, unplanned intervention on the system and safety hazards .The causes of failure may be human error, poor maintenance, inadequate testing, in...

The goal of the FMECA (Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis) process is to determine the consequences that failures may have on the function of a complex system. In aeronautic industries, this process is very important and must comply with international standards. Today, most of the process is performed manually. This can be problematic, since, although the basic process is not diffic...