Random, systematic, and common cause failure: How do you manage them?

Process Safety Progress

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 331-338

  Gentile, Michela ^a   Summers, Angela E ^a  

^a SIS TECH Solutions LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

Common cause failures; Device failure; Random failures; Safety instrumented system; SIS; Systematic failures

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; DESIGN; FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RELIABILITY THEORY;

COMMON CAUSE FAILURE; DEVICE FAILURE; RANDOM FAILURE; RELIABILITY BLOCK DIAGRAMS; SAFETY INSTRUMENTED SYSTEM; SYSTEM FAILURE; SYSTEMATIC FAILURE;

SAFETY DEVICES;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; DESIGN; FAULT TREE ANALYSIS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RELIABILITY THEORY; SAFETY DEVICES;

EID: 33845252704     PISSN: 10668527     EISSN: 15475913     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prs.10145     Document Type: Article

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