Week 1: Introduction to Risk-conscious operations management: Operations management of complex engineering systems. Major functions of operations management, that include, Plant administration / management and hierarchy of reporting, surveillance & decision making, protocol for adherence to technical specifications, maintenance planning and scheduling, technical scheduling including fueling and inventory management. Training and qualification, financial management, Salient features of safety management in respect of operations management activities, Regulatory provisions and compliance protocols in the plant.
Week 2: Dependability Engineering: Introduction, Risk-conscious approach, role of dependency modelling, dependability assessment, special areas, common cause failure vis-à-vis root cause analysis and role of physics of failure modelling. Potential role of intelligent and automation systems, root cause analysis.
Week 3: Risk-based Engineering: RBE framework, role of deterministic and probabilistic integrations in operational tasks including technical specification optimizations, role of surveillance, monitoring and prognosis. Development of operational metrics and requirements for operational risk simulation for identified scenarios. Creation of database of hardware and human factors for risk-simulation.
Week 4: Risk-conscious Culture: Background, residual risk and risk-perception, culture, limitation of safety culture paradigm, Risk-conscious culture: Governing principles, Risk-model, Organizational and Human elements, technical elements.
Week 5: Risk Modelling & Simulation : Integrated risk simulation framework, data analytics, on-line risk monitoring, role of simulator in risk simulation, Operational postulated initiating even and emergency operating procedure simulation to support development of human factor for emergency conditions.
Week 6: Probabilistic Security Risk Assessment : identification and source of malicious acts, insider and outsider risk, identification of vulnerabilities, common cause potential evaluation, modeling and assessment of damage potential. Role of simulations
Week 7: Role of Consciousness in RCOM : Background, evolution of science and philosophy of consciousness, consciousness and human reliability, Consciousness framework for RCOM. Historical perspective. Major philosophies of science of consciousness.
Week 8: Operations research : Risk-based surveillance test interval (STI) and Allowable Outage Time evaluation as part of scheduling and time management. Enterprise resource planning (ERP) and supply chain management (SCM). Inventory management as part of material requirements and planning (MRP). Network optimization and engineering, packet routing optimization. Role of command and control protocol, scheduling, planning, documentation, inventory management, decision making during emergency conditions.
Week 9: Human factors in operations : Implication of human factor in operations, CQB Human reliability model. Anatomy and Physiological processes in cognition, major attributes of consciousness in RCOM, Conscience and plant security aspects, reference human model in RCOM, modelling of sense bases, operational performance influencing factors. Role of root cause analysis in support of identifying the human roots.
Week 10: Operational Risk Management: Integrated operations Risk, Risk-based, Risk-informed, and risk-conscious approach – distinguishing features, Operational risk indicators, Integrated Operational Risk assessment and management framework, Precursor Analysis, Human Factor & RCOM
Week 11: Risk-conscious Maintenance Management: Equipment Life Cycle management vis-à-vis, evolution of maintenance management, risk-conscious maintenance management – the framework, implementation strategy, maintenance and test interval optimization, role of precursor monitoring to reduce common cause failure.
Week 12: Role of AI&ML in
RCOM: Intelligent operator advisory systems, role of ANN and fuzzy rule-based system, risk-framework in support of diagnostics and state prediction. Decision algorithms and criteria.
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