This document summarizes the suitable design strategies that have been followed (and exposed in the contractual deliverable 57) in order to meet the reliability and availability specifications for the XADS accelerator. The document describes also how these strategies can be applied in the different components, and how iterations can lead to reliability improvements. The Failure Mode and Effect ...

Background: The reliability and safety of gas refineries are strongly associated with the reliability of other parts of the system. Defect and failure in one part of a system can cause total system breakdown or accident. The failure and damage in these equipment such as transformers and boilers results in not only the equipment damage and human injuries but also productivity reduction. The purp...

Socio-technical systems rely on technological artefacts as well as human and professional practices in order to achieve organisational safety. From an organisational viewpoint of analysis, different safety barriers are often put in place in order to mitigate risks. The complexity of such systems poses challenges to safety assessment approaches that rely on simple, identifiable cause and effect ...