Initiatives to prevent accidents and disasters -Formulating technical standards when introducing equipment-
If there is insufficient consideration at the time of new equipment construction, not only equipment safety, but production capacity may not even be realized. With regards to safety, for example, fault such as inadequate safety devices, forcing unreasonable work and the inability to cover human errors must be resolved when the equipment is introduced.
Therefore, keeping in mind the safety of equipment and achieving production capacity, a working group for the standardization of production technology was launched at DOWA Technology, and we developed an equipment procurement manual (DTMS: DOWA Technical Manufacturing Standard) which are standard rules at each stage of considering the concept of construction work, basic design, and detailed design.
The standard rules consist of items to be considered, such as workflows, technical standards and risk assessments, and check sheets at each stage. As a standard manual from equipment planning to introduction and start-up, it has begun to be applied to some construction works from FY 2019.
In the future, we will further expand the applicable range, boost completion accuracy in capital investment, and improve the certainty of safety and performance.
Facility procurement manual (extract version)
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While it was a difficult way from the start of considering until getting on track, since serious accidents continued, and it was urgent to review safety functions, we cooperated with engineers all over the country.
We will continue to improve it so that it will be useful as a technical standard for improving equipment safety and reducing omissions, oversights and risks. In addition, there are side effects such as the accumulation and utilization of the contents of consideration, raising awareness about risks, and activating communication between departments.
We can expect an improvement in technical skills. Going forward, the study details will be enriched and become more efficient due to the standardization of the design review (DR) method, and we will work to respond individually to differences in equipment for each business, and to improve the level of satisfaction with the manual.
SAKAI Shoichi, Manager, Production Technology Dept, DOWA TECHNOLOGY
