Applying HFACS Approach to Accident Analysis in Petro-Chemical Industry in China: Case Study of Explosion at Bi-Benzene Plant in Jilin

2016 ◽  
pp. 399-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunhua Gong ◽  
Yunxiao Fan
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Industry ◽  
Accident Analysis

scholarly journals Using Enterprise Architecture to Integrate Lean Manufacturing, Digitalization, and Sustainability: A Lean Enterprise Case Study in the Chemical Industry

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 4851
Author(s):  
Ming-Hui Liao ◽  
Chi-Tai Wang
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Industry ◽  
Lean Manufacturing ◽  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Sustainable Business ◽  
Business Transformation ◽  
Lean Enterprise ◽  
Architecture Framework

The chemical industry has sustained the development of global economies by providing an astonishing variety of products and services, while also consuming massive amounts of raw materials and energy. Chemical firms are currently under tremendous pressure to become lean enterprises capable of executing not only traditional lean manufacturing practices but also emerging competing strategies of digitalization and sustainability. All of these are core competencies required for chemical firms to compete and thrive in future markets. Unfortunately, reports of successful transformation are so rare among chemical firms that acquiring the details of these cases would seem an almost impossible mission. The severe lack of knowledge about these business transformations thus provided a strong motivation for this research. Using The Open Group Architecture Framework, we performed an in-depth study on a real business transformation occurring at a major international chemical corporation, extracting the architecture framework possibly adopted by this firm to become a lean enterprise. This comprehensive case study resulted in two major contributions to the field of sustainable business transformation: (1) a custom lean enterprise architecture framework applicable to common chemical firms making a similar transformation, and (2) a lean enterprise model developed to assist chemical firms in comprehending the intricate and complicated dynamics between lean manufacturing, digitalization, and sustainability.

scholarly journals OVERALL EQUIPMENT EFFECTIVENESS (OEE) THROUGH TOTAL PRODUCTIVE MAINTENANCE (TPM) PRACTICES: A CASE STUDY IN CHEMICAL INDUSTRY

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-36
Author(s):  
Ferry Yulius Agung ◽  
Antonius Siahaan
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Industry ◽  
Survey Methodology ◽  
Setup Time ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Manufacturing Companies ◽  
Total Productive Maintenance ◽  
Performance Reduction ◽  
Considerable Impact ◽  
Present World

In present world scenario, when manufacturing companies encounter capacity problems, they immediately look for increasing overtime, number of shifts and purchase new machine and equipment’s. Instead, focus must be on the better utilization of resources and increasing performance of the existing machines, so that there is better equipment performance, reduction in bottlenecks, decrease overall downtime, improve operator performance and minimization of setup time and other major forms of losses thus enabling in decision on the investment of buying new machines. Thus, the aim of this journal is to study the state of Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) through Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) in Chemical Industry. theoretical framework is developed to determine the predominant TPM pillars that influence the OEE. Based on this theoretical framework, a survey methodology is used where questionnaires are sent to 180 respondents in PT.XYZ with the resulting response rate of 100% which is comparable with other studies. Theoutcome of this survey is analyzed using SPSS and the analysis show that the predominant TPM pillars indeed has a considerable impact on the OEE.

scholarly journals FRAM for Systemic Accident Analysis: A Matrix Representation of Functional Resonance

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (01) ◽  
pp. 1850001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patriarca Riccardo ◽  
Del Pinto Gianluca ◽  
Di Gravio Giulio ◽  
Costantino Francesco
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Management ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Accident Analysis ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
Resonance Analysis ◽  
Linear Sequence ◽  
Illustrative Case Study ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Runway Incursion

Due to the inherent complexity of nowadays Air Traffic Management (ATM) system, standard methods looking at an event as a linear sequence of failures might become inappropriate. For this purpose, adopting a systemic perspective, the Functional Resonance Analysis Method (FRAM) originally developed by Hollnagel, helps in identifying nonlinear combinations of events and interrelationships. This paper aims to enhance the strength of FRAM-based accident analyses, discussing the Resilience Analysis Matrix (RAM), a user-friendly tool that supports the analyst during the analysis, in order to reduce the complexity of representation of FRAM. The RAM offers a two-dimensional representation which systematically highlights the connections among couplings, and thus even the highly connected group of couplings. As an illustrative case study, this paper develops a systemic accident analysis for the runway incursion happened in February 1991 at LAX airport, involving SkyWest Flight 5569 and USAir Flight 1493. FRAM confirms itself a powerful method to characterize the variability of the operational scenario, identifying the dynamic couplings with a critical role during the event and helping in discussing the systemic effects of variability at different level of analysis.

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