safety engineering

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safety engineering

[′sāf·tē ‚en·jə′nir·iŋ]
(industrial engineering)
The testing and evaluating of equipment and procedures to prevent accidents.
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Fail-safe operation: Distributed system will keep on working even with some of its components are out of order.
Czech Republic : GDC Technology Showcases Its Award-winning Products at CineEurope 2019
The system is strictly mechanical--no hydraulics, pneumatics or electricity--for fail-safe operation, even on wet or contaminated guides.
Safety System for Hoists
The modes can be changed on the fly for fail-safe operation, preventing the system from closing or resetting if errors are present.
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Both capacitors offer a fused, segmented metalization pattern, to provide significant circuit protection and the UL 810 approval assures fail-safe operation under fault conditions.
New Yorker Electronics to Release New Film Capacitors with Fused, Segmented Metalization Pattern
With the proper pilot assembly, the reservoir is constantly pressurized and able to perform the fail-safe operation during a power failure or catastrophic air failure.
Small but mighty: pneumatic actuator sizing and selection simplified: in mines and mills, installation space is often at a premium for pneumatic actuators used in valve automation
In terms of security, Lawo's STAR technology provides redundancy and fail-safe operation.
Abu Dhabi Media opts for Lawo solutions
The base structure module consists of a base frame, ball bearing brackets, a constant-force spring to apply a restoration force on the mechanical driving part during fail-safe operation, and limit switches to monitor and judge the status of each mission mode.
Experimental Design Validation of Tilting Calibration Mechanism by Using Shape Memory Alloy Spring Actuator
The third pillar to tackle was fail-safe operation. This has seen ThyssenKrupp develop a very high redundancy and diverse system to check positions, speed, direction and distances between cabs, as well as safe communication between the cabs.
Reach for the sky: a design of elevator that doesn't need cables will make it possible for developers to build taller and taller buildings
"It was a fail-safe operation," said Jeff Ziller, the department's district biologist.
Truck wreck spills load of hatchery salmon
The bendable probe offers interference-free, fail-safe operation and "Quick-Set" calibration.
Bendable capacitance probe
In the field incident in which the pedal examined by NASA was involved and in the only other three incidents that appear to be of that nature found in the VOQs, the resistive short triggered a DTC and fail-safe operation."
Tin ears
This film technology combines high rms current capability with high reliability and fail-safe operation, especially in harsh environments that experience a wide range of temperature, humidity and transients (from lightning strike to grid).
Film technology extends lifetime in green energy applications

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