Large-scale industrial control systems, in particular oil refineries, paper mills, and food processing plants, also maintain a large library of standard operating procedures which have been developed by system designers and installers. These must be adapted on a daily basis to the specific system configuration and product targets for manual or automatic execution. The SAFE-P technology will be directly applicable to ensuring that industrial plants' daily operating plans and scripts conform to the standard operating procedures. SAFE-P technology may also be applied when manually-operated industrial control systems are being transitioned to more automated control systems, to verify that newly-written executable control scripts conform to legacy manual (textual) operating procedures.
The proposed SAFE-P tool will be applicable to a wide variety of NASA missions including ISS, Shuttle, and Constellation operations. For manned and unmanned spacecraft operations, SAFE-P will bridge a critical gap in NASA's safety procedures, preventing the possibility of inadvertent commands that do not conform to standard operating procedures and that could lead to dangerous or even catastrophic consequences. SAFE-P fits directly within NASA's Automation for Operations (A4O) system concept, helping support significant reductions in operations costs and increases in operational efficiency while maintaining or improving system safety. The SAFE-P tool will be designed to integrate with NASA's Procedure Integrated Development Environment (PRIDE), seamlessly supporting efficient development of future executable procedures and scripts.
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