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Integrating Mitigations with redundancies in an Industrial Process

Integrating Mitigations with redundancies in an Industrial Process is an important aspect of our activities that directly benefits clients. Integrating Mitigations with redundancies in an Industrial Process Riskope was recently asked to review a risk assessment for an industrial process undergoing major expansion and upgrades. Prior HAZOP and FMEA for the proposed facility existed. Neither gave the client required comfort that design decision-making represented an optimum. Riskope started by facilitating the definition of the operation’s success criteria, its metric, and…

Optimum Risk Estimates, ORE and Aerospace Applications

Optimum Risk Estimates, ORE and Aerospace Applications Smaller satellites are becoming frequent in the so called era of the “nano satellites”. Canada, for example, using an Indian launcher placed simultaneously into orbit, a little more than one year ago, four satellites. Indeed, the drive to miniaturize has been a recurring theme in the space industry for size and weight translate directly into the cost of getting a satellite off the ground (setting into orbit one tonne of equipment costs approximately…