Full-fledged Functionality from Each Component Part
Sector conducts operating safety studies under commitment to means and results
The Dependability approach allows systems-level objectives to be reduced to the equipment and component level, to strive for and demonstrate respect for requirements in the demands brought by reliability (ability of a device to perform a required function under given conditions for a given period of time), maintainability (capacity for system functions to be maintained coherently and cost-effectively) and availability (ability of an entity to satisfy required functions at a moment’s notice).
These qualities of reliability, maintainability, and availability are today complemented by other vital needs: testability, integrity, etc.
References
ACMAT Bastion High Mobility Vehicle
RAMS Assessment (and logistical support) for the ACMAT Bastion HM Vehicle:
● Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis on components
● Modelling and quantification of hazardous event using fault tree analysis
● Evaluating provisional reliability according to reliability data for each logistic candidate on the logistics tree
Assessment of Jules Horowitz Nuclear Reactor Facilities (Cadarache)
Holistic support allowing evaluation of reliability, availability, and maintainability parameters:
● Reliability analysis: functional analysis, Failure Modes, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA), preliminary risk analysis, fault tree analysis
● Reliability and availability supervision of reactor facilities
● Precise planning of preventive maintenance and overall carrying costs
● Maximum availability (based on technical restrictions and cost) of equipment
● Profitability optimization
Practical Safety/Security Level Methods
All the industries involved in this reflection project have experienced difficulties in implementing security/practical safety techniques. The goal of this project was to:
● Introduce state-of-the-art security/practical safety techniques, as well as similar methods and approaches,
● Analyze characteristics with noticeable challenges and identify possible solutions,
● Propose a “semi-quantitative” practical safety/security protocol, which can serve as a future standard if adopted by the industries associated with this project, and if proven to be as effective as initial testing during this project suggests.