Reviving knowledge on equipment failures and improving risk management at industrial sites

• Main Authors: Bragatto Paolo, Agnello Patrizia, Ansaldi Silvia, Artenio Emanuele, Delle Site Corrado
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Institut za istrazivanja i projektovanja u privredi 2015-01-01
• Series: Istrazivanja i projektovanja za privredu
• Subjects: pressure equipment; failure modes; semantic search
• Online Access: https://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/1451-4117/2015/1451-41171504271B.pdf

The knowledge about pressure equipment failure modes and rates is essential for the risk management. In the Seventies an incomparable effort was made by National Authorities, which at that time controlled the pressure equipment, aiming at providing the industry with trustable reliability parameters, which are still in us, even though repeatedly amended by experts. In order to revive and update the knowledge on this matter, the judgment of the experts is not enough and much more data on the field must be gathered. Experimental studies on a large scale are now impossible, thus the only way is to exploit potential of semantic search and the huge data in the public domain. The information scattered in the web, tied together, may provide industry and authorities with the knowledge they need to make the right decisions.