System safety approach for automated mobile work-machines

In industrial sectors such as mining, construction, civil engineering, container handling and material handling, which are using mobile work machines, a new growing trend is to automate mobile work machine operations. The shift from manually operated mobile work machines toward automated mobile work-machine systems takes machinery-safety considerations also to a new, system safety, level. The biggest concern is the new automation-related threats and possible unexpected hazardous events. Rega... To continue reading this story Click Here