Resilience-oriented design

If the system were to be redesigned to prevent this kind of accidents, it would have been designed with the resilience-oriented features as follows:

Specifications

  The specification document would include a definition of the operational scenarios and situations, and of the expected combinations of them, defining the design scope .

Hazard detection

  All safety critical components, including valves, should be equipped with means to identify their state.

  If sensors are not available, they may be substituted with indirect means, such as by routine testing.

  The resilience add-ons should be tested regularly, by special procedures.

Control design

  The control of the Primary operation mode   (Production vs. Maintenance) should impose restrictions on the scenario of the sub-systems.

Exception management

  Make sure that the controls of special troubleshooting features are error-proof, namely, that they obey the rules for the operating in exceptional situations


Updated on 20 Apr 2016.