Track: Engineering Management

Abstract

The challenge of the economic performance is becoming more and more heavy on the companies in a context of diversified constraints imposed by their macro-system, indeed, by their environment. It is obvious that the performance of production systems is directly proportional to the level of safety of their resources. In this perimeter, our work aims to improve one of attributes of the dependability of production systems, which is the safety, during all phases of a system's life, by using a system approach developed and applied to the safety, we have called it "The Production System Safety Approach". It allows to harmonize the safety to the different processes of the company in general, and to harmonize it to the production process in particular. It is based on our hypothesis of safety of classes of subsystems and interactions according to the general hierarchical diagram of a system, making reference to our development of a new tool called "Plan of Microscopic Analysis of Risks related to Classes of Subsystems (or MARCS Plan)".