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By A. Greenway MSc DMS DipM AMIEE (auth.), Felix Redmill, Tom Anderson (eds.)

The programme for the second one Safety-critical platforms Symposium used to be deliberate to check a few of the elements of expertise presently hired within the layout of safety-critical platforms, in addition to to emphasize the significance of security and possibility administration of their layout and operation. overview there's a good stability of contributions from academia and undefined. hence, is given the chance to precise its perspectives of the safety-critical area and while provided a glimpse of the applied sciences that are presently less than improvement and which, if profitable, might be to be had within the medium-term destiny. within the box of know-how, a topic whose significance is more and more being known is human components, and there are papers in this from the college of Hertfordshire and Rolls-Royce. more and more, PLCs are being hired in safety-critical purposes, and this area is represented via contributions from Nuclear electrical and August pcs. Then there are papers on maintainability, Ada, opposite engineering, social matters, formal equipment, and scientific structures, all within the context of safeguard. And, in fact, it's not attainable to maintain the 'new' applied sciences out of the safety-critical area: there are papers on neural networks from the collage of Exeter and knowledge-based structures from period Technology.

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5. Conclusion There are many ways of achieving high levels of safety integrity through system configuration and in this paper I have attempted to indicate by example some of the more practical methods currently used, however, the configurations in this paper should not be considered as exhaustive of all possible fail safe state configurations. The Safety Community, I am sure, awaits with anticipation the finalisation of the current draft documents which should provide strong guidance on the current and safe approaches to be taken for both personnel and capital equipment protection.

Re-start the system. Table 3 : Maintenance activity times For example: (a) A standby system, such as Figure 6. Te = T'd + Tn + T.. + T"" + Teo ... {2a} (b) An in-place repair, such as welding a crack in a pressure vessel. {2b} (c) Physical replacement of a complete item, such as a circuit module or power supply. Te = T'd + Tn + Tad + (Tp maxI T, ) + Trm + Trp + Teo + T... {2c} An examination of the factors which determine the individual activity times can be very revealing, both from the point of view of minimising the time and from that of accomplishing the activity safely and reliably; in the following section these are examined in detail.

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