Research Prospects for the Application of Functional Models to System Safety

System safety is highly valued by process engineering in the era of industry 4.0. The new side-by-side challenges and opportunities also encourage researchers to solve the safety issues by using artificial intelligence techniques, which aims at improving the quality and efficiency in the safety analysis of process systems to bring the risk level down to a certain level that can be acceptable. The poster focuses on the research prospects for the application of functional models, multilevel flow models (MFM), to system safety. Fours aspects of research demands: safety analysis requirements, knowledge acquisition and representation from safety aspects, reasoning rules development regarding safety, and safeguard proposals in the functional model framework are pointed out. This poster presents the objectives of the second phase of the DHRTC water management project regarding system safety assessment in the next three years.