Modeling patterns for reliability assessment of safety instrumented systems

Meng, Huixing; Kloul, Leïla; Rauzy, Antoine

doi:10.1016/j.ress.2018.06.026

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“…Providing a logical dependability assessment of ship structures under various threats throughout their lifetime was the goal of Liu & Frangopol (2018) [132]. A flexible set of modelling patterns was presented by Meng et al (2018) [133] and implemented in the AltaRica 3.0 language. Chen & Mehrabani (2019) [134] introduced a technique for analyzing the dependability of coastal flood defenses, such as earth sea dykes, about changing operating conditions.…”

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A review of components of reliability for the evaluation of Programmable logic controller

Obele,

Aikhuele,

Nwosu

2024

WJEEE

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The control of processes is made smooth and effective by Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), which are essential to industrial automation. The assessment of PLCs' reliability is crucial since more and more sectors depend on them for crucial tasks. In-depth reviews of the components necessary to evaluate PLC system reliability are presented in this study. To ensure a robust review, the review first clarifies the basic concepts of reliability, highlighting the significance of system uptime and the ramifications of failures in industrial settings. Next, it examined the different elements that go into a PLC's overall reliability, such as availability, testability, and (maintenance and maintainability). The percentage of the reviewed papers that employed (maintenance and maintainability), testability, or availability to improve the reliability of PLC systems showed that, availability and (maintenance and maintainability) has been employed the most for enhancing system reliability, accounting for 32% each of publications analyzed, followed by testability, accounting for 28% respectively. The scatter chart that depicts the progression of reliability components from 2010 to 2023 also explained that the use of availability and (maintenance and maintainability) was increasing. This upward trend can be explained by the fact that repairable systems are heavily reliant on availability, whereas (maintenance and maintainability) tend to avoid unnecessary equipment breakdown and testability, which ensures the ease with which the functionality of any system or component can be ascertained with the required level of precision.

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A review of components of reliability for the evaluation of Programmable logic controller

Obele,

Aikhuele,

Nwosu

2024

WJEEE

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“…The common attributes used for decision procedure are divided into quality, design standards and information exchange. The high-quality database with decision procedure provides the specific data that enable reliability behaviour of chemicals and the validation of their lifetime performance in filtering material’s hazard function or failure rate for important information, types and volume of recoverable chemicals that are reusable and recyclable within the waste resource limits (Meng et al , 2018).…”

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Implementation of automation system-based model checking for managing imperfect maintenance actions in chemical plant projects

Ismail

2022

IMDS

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PurposeThe chemical plant (CP) maintenance industry has been under increasing pressure by process designers to demonstrate its evaluation and information management of model checking (MC) on the durability’s performance and design of plant control instrument. This main problem has been termed as imperfect maintenance actions (IMAs) level. Although IMAs have been explored in interdisciplinary maintenance environments, less is known about what imperfect maintenance problems currently exist and what their causes are, such as the recent explosion in the Beirut city (4 August 2020, about 181 fatalities). The aim of this paper is to identify how CP maintenance environments could integrate MC within their processes.Design/methodology/approachTo achieve this aim, a comprehensive literature review of the existing conceptualisation of MC practices is reviewed and the main features of information and communication technology tools and techniques currently being employed on such IMA projects are carried out and synthesised into a conceptual framework for integrating MC in the automation system process.FindingsThe literature reveals that various CP designers conceptualise MC in different ways. MC is commonly shaped by long-term compliance to fulfil the requirement for maintaining a comfortable durability risk on imperfect maintenance schemes of CP projects. Also, there is a lack of common approaches for integrating the delivery process of MC. The conceptual framework demonstrates the importance of early integration of MC in the design phase to identify alternative methods to cogenerate, monitor and optimise MC.Originality/valueThus far, this study advances the knowledge about how CP maintenance environments can ensure MC delivery. This paper highlights the need for further research to integrate MC in CP maintenance environments. A future study could validate the framework across the design phase with different CP project designers.

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“…Indeed, as many architectures have to be evaluated during the engineering process, a major issue is then the ability of modelers to easily build and modify the system model (for example by adding or removing component models). Pattern-based modeling, combined with a structured modeling framework, seems to be a very efficient way to allow a plug-and-play approach to compose models from a library of generic and reusable models: [32,33,34]. These models must have standard interfaces to ensure their interoperability and can be adapted and composed according to the architecture to be modelled.…”

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Architecture assessment for safety critical plant operation using reachability analysis of timed automata

Gouyon

Pétin

Cochard

et al. 2020

Reliability Engineering & System Safety

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This article deals with the validation of critical industrial process architectures from the point of view of safety and operation. During the engineering phases, the objective is to complement conventional safety studies with an approach that focuses on plant operation. In this context, one of the major challenges is to provide a guarantee that the designed architecture will be able to react safely to critical situations and events. To face the complexity resulting from the large number of functionalities and devices of the installations under consideration, the proposed approach is based on dynamic models of architectures, using the formalism of timed automata and reachability analysis to verify that, given a particular configuration of an architecture, the process can be safely operated to achieve a given objective. The result is a formal tool that allows engineers and plant operators to evaluate architecture safety with different types of dysfunctional scenarios based on their operational safety expertise. The article presents the formal modelling framework, which emphasizes structured modelling using patterns to promote reuse and instantiation over several candidate architectures. The contribution is illustrated and discussed using an experimental laboratory platform.

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Modeling patterns for reliability assessment of safety instrumented systems

Cited by 20 publications

References 36 publications

A review of components of reliability for the evaluation of Programmable logic controller

A review of components of reliability for the evaluation of Programmable logic controller

Implementation of automation system-based model checking for managing imperfect maintenance actions in chemical plant projects

Architecture assessment for safety critical plant operation using reachability analysis of timed automata

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