Events, incidents, accidents, failures, production losses, life reduction of equipment, casualties, and insurance coverage are all critical topics with respect to safety, reliability, and economics. This paper identifies ...

Safety critical systems developed as part of a product line must still comply with safety standards. Standards use the concept of Safety Integrity Levels (SILs) to drive the assignment of system safety requirements to ...

In the last decades, the air traffic system has been changing to adapt itself to new social demands, mainly the safe growth of worldwide traffic capacity. Those changes are ruled by the Communication, Navigation, ...

Industry 4.0 is an emerging concept in production systems and is described as a concept that encompasses technologies such as the Internet of Things, big data, cyber-physical systems, and smart objects. Industry 4.0 will ...

The main concern of activities developed in oil and gas well construction is safety. But safety during the well construction process is not a trivial subject. Today risk evaluation approaches are based in static analyses ...

The main concern of activities developed in oil and gas well construction is safety. But safety during the well construction process is not a trivial subject. Today risk evaluation approaches are based in static analyses ...

Safety-Critical Systems (SCS) are becoming more present in the daily lives of contemporary society. Today's SCS are heavily based on computational technology, in which eventual failures in the functioning of these systems ...

Concern around personal safety is a significant factor in constraining women’s access to and use of public space. One strategy presented to address this involves altering the design of built environments. However, tension ...