A hierarchical domain model for safety-critical cyber-physical systems in process automation

Occupational health and safety in the industry 4.0 era: A cause for major concern?

“…Meanwhile, the use of cyber-physical systems offers the promise of adapting industrial systems to changing environmental conditions thanks to autonomous decision-making (Kuschnerus et al, 2015). In industrial process automation, the search and adoption of a cyber-physical system must take into account safety restrictions that reduce technical risks to a tolerable level, which must be defined in up-to-date standards (e.g.…”

“…It is helpful to begin with a concise overview of the potential advantages and drawbacks of the six technological categories in terms of impact on OHS. Table 3 below summarizes some of these with regard to the introduction of such technologies (Podgórski et al, 2017;Mattsson et al, 2016;Lira and Borsato, 2016;Vogl et al, 2016;Beetz et al, 2015;Fernández and Pérez, 2015;Kaivo-Oja et al, 2015;Siemieniuch et al, 2015;Kuschnerus et al, 2015;Gisbert et al, 2014). The drawbacks could become emergent risk factors that could in turn lead to occupational injuries or illnesses and hence deterioration of OHS performance in the industrial setting.…”

Industria 4.0 y transformación digital: nuevas formas de organización del trabajo

“…Otros autores también reconocen el valor de las tecnologías de producción inteligente como posible factor de mejora de los sistemas de seguridad y salud laboral. Para Kuschnerus, Bilgic, Bruns & Musch (2015), el uso de sistemas cibernéticos facilita la adaptación de los sistemas industriales a las condiciones ambientales cambiantes gracias a la toma de decisiones autónomas.…”

Safety-oriented flexible design of Autonomous Mobile Robot systems

“…In order to guarantee safe operation, safety standards like IEC 61508 [3] define measures and techniques to be applied to the development and life cycle of control systems that reduce the residual process risk to a tolerable level [4]. An important requirement of safety critical systems is the ability to guarantee safe operation when any configuration changes are made to the system while it is running.…”