Applied Safety for Engineers - Systems and Products

Global competition and other factors are forcing manufacturers to produce highly safe engineering systems and products. This book meets the needs for product designers, systems engineers, and safety engineers that work together and need a single resource which considers all three areas when designing new products and systems.

List of contents

1. Introduction. 2. Basic Mathematical Concepts. 3. Safety Basics. 4. Safety Analysis Methods. 5. Robot Safety. 6. Safety in Nuclear Power Plants. 7. Medical Systems Safety. 8. Airline and Ship Safety. 9. Rail Safety. 10. Truck and Bus Safety. 11. Mining Equipment Safety. 12. Programmable Electronic Mining System Safety. 13. Safety in Offshore Oil and Gas Industry. 14. Software Safety. 15. Safety in Engineering Maintenance.

About the author

B.S. Dhillon is a Professor of Engineering Management in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Ottawa. He has served as a Chairman/Director of Mechanical Engineering Department/Engineering Management Program for over 10 years at the same institution. He is the founder of the probability distribution named Dhillon Distribution/Law/Model by statistical researchers in their publications around the world.

Summary

Global competition and other factors are forcing manufacturers to produce highly safe engineering systems and products. This book meets the needs for product designers, systems engineers, and safety engineers that work together and need a single resource which considers all three areas when designing new products and systems.

Product details

• Authors: B.S. Dhillon, B.s. (University of Ottawa Dhillon
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781032080987
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3208098-7
• No. of pages: 198
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; Product Design, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Quality Control, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Industrial Engineering, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Engineering (General), TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Manufacturing, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Industrial Health & Safety, Systems analysis & design, Engineering: general, Production & quality control management, Risk assessment, Systems analysis and design, Health & safety issues, Health and safety in the workplace, Production and quality control management, Ergonomics