IEEE Engineering Management Society Singapore Chapter
JOINT SEMINAR
on
An Integrated Framework to Support Process Risk Improvement based on Equipment Dependability
Speaker(s)
Dr. Vahid Ebrahimipour, University of Tehran, Iran
Date
11-10-2007
Time
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon
Venue
Faculty of Engineering, Seminar Room EA-06-03, NUS
Abstract
This study presented a standard methodology and hybrid framework fro analysis and improvement of equipment performance to enhance stability and total operational effectiveness in oil&gas industry based on dependability indicators. To achieve these objectives, we developed two combined quantitative and qualitative multi-function approaches to pave a way toward providing insight on the equipment performance. The quantitative approach at first analyzed the performance of equipment through data extracted from OREDA in an off-line manner, to identify the critical pump and their fault through which the major hazards could initiate in the process. Then the qualitative approach was employed to understand the behavior of critical equipment in the process. The main idea was to identify failure mode from sensor data by fuzzy classification with expert knowledge to predict the aggregated fuzzy failure rate.
Biography
After completing his BEng and MSc in Industrial Engineering, Vahid Ebrahimipour worked for a couple of years in industry, and then went to Japan to pursue his PhD that he received from Okayama University. Currently Dr. Vahid Ebrahimipour is an Assistant Professor in Industrial Engineering Department, and supervisor of safety research Laboratory, at University of Tehran. Also, he is a senior auditor for IMS (ISO 9001, 14001 & OHSAS 18001) registered by TUVNORD Group. Dr. Vahid Ebrahimipour's research covers Safety Engineering & Risk Management, Knowledge-Based Decision Support System, Project Management, Equipment Dependability, among others. He has published several papers in international journals on these topics.
