Functional safety has been a long-standing requirement for many electronics applications, including implanted medical devices, space-borne systems, and nuclear power plants. The widespread use of ...

The isolation methodology discussed in this article ensures that an oil production facility can continue to operate or remain pressurized while discrete sections of the facility are taken out of ...

SINGAPORE—The industry should prepare for a disruption in aviation safety as it pivots toward sustainability innovation, an ICAO exec warns. ICAO air navigation bureau director Stephen Creamer said ...

Experts assessing the safety of a nuclear power plant (NPP) with multiple reactors must look at the site from a bird’s eye view, carefully considering how an accident damaging one element of a plant ...

A research report, Analysis of the Effectiveness of Safety Training Methods, published earlier this year, explored a variety of training methods used in safety training. The authors noted that “the ...

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Instead of taking a sprawling corner office when he joined the company, former Alcoa Inc. CEO, Paul O’Neill, settled into his new role by taking his place in a cubicle. This wasn’t the only ...

A recent experience with managing the tenth anniversary version of a technical conference (www.iccve2022.org) triggered a process of reflection on the last decade of artificial intelligence. The first ...