Technique to identify and characterize new and emerging risks: A new tool for application in manufacturing processes

Brocal, Francisco; González, Cristina M.; Pérez, Miguel Ángel Sebastián

doi:10.1016/j.ssci.2018.05.005

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“…From the work done by Brocal and Sebastián (2015a), Brocal et al (2017) have developed a theoretical framework that allows characterizing and differentiating the new qualities from the increasing qualities associated to risk. With this theoretical framework, Brocal et al (2018) have designed a technique called TICHNER that permits the NERs generated by a manufacturing process to be identified and characterized.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The automation of manufacturing processes can produce emerging risks, linked both to the process and a whole (system), and to specific components, such as robots, HMIs, and ICTs (Brocal et al, 2018). In this way, among the different manufacturing technologies that have been studied throughout this chapter, automation, HMIs, and ICTs can be selected in order to expand them as possible sources of emerging risks.…”

Section: Specific Manufacturing Technologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the expert forecast on emerging physical risks related to OSH published by EU-OSHA (Flaspöler et al, 2005), these emerging risks related to automation were identified: "automation leading to an increase in occupational accidents in maintenance and production tasks" and "automation leading to poor job content (repetitive and monotonous work) and consequently to Musculoskeletal Disorders (MSDs) and stress." Thus, the two NERs above can be classified into two groups, in light of their consequences (Brocal et al, 2018):…”

Section: Automationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This new framework allows characterizing and differentiating the new qualities from the increasing qualities associated to risk. With this theoretical framework, Brocal et al (2018) have designed a technique that is compatible with standards ISO 31000:200931000: (ISO, 2009a and ISO/IEC 31010:2009(ISO, 2009b and permits the NERs generated by a system and its components to be identified and characterized. This technique is called the technique to identify and characterize NERs (TICHNER) and is one of the main results of the Spanish research project A2NERSYS ("Analysis and Assessment of technological requirements for the design of a New and Emerging Risks standardized management SYStem").…”

Section: Emerging Risk Characterizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This technique is called the technique to identify and characterize NERs (TICHNER) and is one of the main results of the Spanish research project A2NERSYS ("Analysis and Assessment of technological requirements for the design of a New and Emerging Risks standardized management SYStem"). TICHNER can be applied at any stage of the lifecycle of a manufacturing process and it may also be used in combination with other risk identification techniques (Brocal et al, 2018) .…”

Section: Emerging Risk Characterizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Contemporary organizations function in a complex business and operational environment composed of closely interdependent systems. They are also complex by their internal structure, management and deployed modern technologies. This complexity is not always well understood, and cannot be efficiently controlled. As the complexity and interdependencies increase, man-made systems become more unstable creating conditions for cascading, system-level failures causing serious threats to both themselves and society in general. Such breakdowns may consist of a) serious physical damages and destruction of their physical assets (caused by natural disasters, extreme weather phenomena and climate change, malicious human actions, etc.), and/or b) large functional disruptions with no physical damages of assets (caused by major organization’s internal disturbances, market crashes, pandemics, disruptions of supply chains, etc.). Those sources of risks are basically external to organizations. They are unable to control them, but are deeply affected by those risks. The latest case of the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates the above. It is affecting both all sectors of life and businesses worldwide. It convincingly shows that we need to think, plan and act globally in order to deal with such situations that will also take place in the future. Thus, organizations have to find ways of coping with this reality to remain economically viable. We are of opinion that the concepts of structured Asset Management (AM) and resilience put together may provide an efficient framework in this regard. Two case studies in a major North American electrical utility demonstrate the applicability of this approach: i) during an exceptional ice storm with significant damages of its physical assets, and ii) coping with challenges of COVID-19 with no destruction of its physical assets.

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