Smart Safety Belt Design to Avoid Accidents in Hazardous Industrial Environment

SHIP - Assessment of the Safety of Hazardous Industrial Processes in the Presence of Design Faults

The SHIP project (ref. EV5V 103) is being carried out with financial support from the EEC in the framework of the Environment Programme, sub-theme: Major Industrial Hazards. Abstract Belief Networks (also known as Graphical Probabilistic Networks and with various other names) offer a useful formal language for stating complex arguments in rigorous, yet visually clear terms. They are thus promis...

The possibilities of GIS in preventing serious industrial accidents caused by hazardous substances

Fuzzy PI control design for an industrial weigh belt feeder

An industrial weigh belt feeder is used to transport solid materials into a manufacturing process at a constant feedrate. It exhibits nonlinear behavior because of motor friction, saturation, and quantization noise in the sensors, which makes standard autotuning methods difficult to implement. This paper proposes and experimentally demonstrates two types of fuzzy logic controllers for an indust...

Evaluating the Performance of Health, Safety, & Environment Management System (HSE-MS) in Dam Design and Construction Projects in Tehran Industrial Group based on EFQM Enterprise Excellence Model

Introduction: Comprehensive and reliable performance evaluation of organizations has always been one of the main concerns of stakeholders and managers of organizations. Performance evaluation can raise awareness of the progress made in improving the performance of any organizations, especially in the field of health, safety, and environment (HSE) and thus, create the necessary motivation and op...

Synaptic Ribbon Conveyor Belt or Safety Belt?

The synaptic ribbon in neurons that release transmitter via graded potentials has been considered as a conveyor belt that actively moves vesicles toward their release sites. But evidence has accumulated to the contrary, and it now seems plausible that the ribbon serves instead as a safety belt to tether vesicles stably in mutual contact and thus facilitate multivesicular release by compound exo...