Resilience-oriented design

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

Terminology

  Use terms in the language of the operators, so that they understand your concepts and follow your procedures ( reference to guide ...)

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 .

Control design

  The control of the Primary operation mode   (Navigation vs. Maintenance) may be either manual or automatic.

  Make sure that the controls are slip-proof .

Exception management

  The system response to changing the steering mode to Disconnected while in Navigation mode should depend on the entity at the helm .


Updated on 20 Apr 2016.