SAFERELNET


Thematic Network on Safety and Reliability of Industrial Products, Systems and Structures
sexta-feira, 19 de abril de 2024

	Overview
	The SAFERELNET Thematic Network is concerned with providing safe and cost-effective solutions for industrial products, systems, facilities and structures across different industrial sectors. The scope of the Network is the integrated treatment of the important aspects of design, production, operation of industrial products and systems. The main emphasis is on the use of reliability-based methods for the optimal design of products, production facilities, industrial systems and structures from the point of view of balancing the economic aspects associated with providing predefined safety levels, with the associated costs of maintenance and availability. The approaches include modelling the reliability of systems throughout their lifetime so as to be able to study the impact of new maintenance and repair schemes on system safety, life cycle costs, reliability, serviceability and quality. Methods for the assessment of existing structures and equipment will be addressed as well as approaches and criteria for extending the lifetime of products and industrial systems safety and with adequate levels of reliability and availability. The Network aims at improving the coherence of the approaches adopted by the different industries to deal with the above-mentioned problems, in particular as concerns RTD and demonstration activities. It will also assess the importance and maturity of the technologies being developed and will contribute to the technology transfer among sectors. This Network, which has a duration of four years, is funded by the GROWTH programme of the European Commission with a budget around 2 Million EURO. The Network will be organising workshops and producing reports and sectorial overviews, which will be disseminated in due course. In addition to its own activities, the Network will also aim at establishing links with international organisations as well as with other type of Networks that are active in similar areas. Furthermore, although the Consortium has been established, the Network is open to accept new members that are willing to participate on a self-funded basis. This participation depends only on the signing of an Agreement, which specifies the contributions that the joining member will provide to the Network in exchange for its participation.
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