Design for Risk Engineering

Failure is the enemy of engineers. Failure can lead to defeat, the catastrophic loss of engineering projects. “All the Roads To Rome”: the concept of path sets is introduced to evaluate reliability, maintainability, and testability based on Wang Entropy as a measure of system complexity. The objective of engineering design is to obviate failure, an idea unifying all of engineering. Design for risk engineering starts from understanding the weakest link of engineering systems and is built on the following Three Lines of Defense:

First Line of Defense – Avoid or Eliminate Failure Potential;

Second Line of Defense – Detect and Control Failure Early;

Third Line of Defense – Reduce Impact/Consequence of Failures.