Understanding and combating design error in process plant design [An article from: Safety Science]
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Author(s)J.R. Taylor
PublisherElsevier
ISBN / ASINB000PC0IQE
ISBN-13978B000PC0IQ2
MarketplaceFrance 🇫🇷
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This digital document is a journal article from Safety Science, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
Description:
The paper starts with a brief description of typical stages in of the design process in the process industry and some of its crucial characteristics. It then moves on to give an account of root causes of design errors. This section makes considerable use of cases from the author's professional experience and culminates in a classification of design error. The final section of the paper gives a brief review of tools for combating error. It is acknowledged that no one method or combinations of methods are capable of identifying all design errors. Further studies of the design process itself are proposed in order to make it less error prone.
Description:
The paper starts with a brief description of typical stages in of the design process in the process industry and some of its crucial characteristics. It then moves on to give an account of root causes of design errors. This section makes considerable use of cases from the author's professional experience and culminates in a classification of design error. The final section of the paper gives a brief review of tools for combating error. It is acknowledged that no one method or combinations of methods are capable of identifying all design errors. Further studies of the design process itself are proposed in order to make it less error prone.
