1. Dependability management in automated border control
Frontex 2nd Global ABC Conference
Toni Ahonen & Laura Salmela
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

2. Presentation structure
FastPass project
The concepts of dependability and availability performance
Lifecycle of a technical system
Guidelines proposed for ABC dependability management
Conclusions
The work for this conference paper has been supported by the FastPass project. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/ ) under grant agreement n° This publication only reflects the authors view and the European Union is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.

3. FastPass project
The work for this conference paper has been supported by the FastPass project. The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/ ) under grant agreement n° This publication only reflects the authors view and the European Union is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained therein.

4. The concepts of dependability and availability performance
Reliability
Maintainability
Maintenance support performance
Dependability
Characteristics of a product
Characteristics of the logistics
and maintenance support organization
Adopted from IEC

5. Lifecycle of a technical system
End-of-life
management
Concept and
definition
Design and
development
Manufacturing
Operation and
maintenance
Installation and
commissioning
Modified from Ulrich and Eppinger 2004

6. Guidelines proposed for ABC dependability management (1/2)
Specification, evaluation and allocation of dependability objectives based on end-user engagement providing a ground for the other reliability, availability and maintenance (RAM) tasks
System dependability objectives
Adoption of a deductive top-down approach for analysing the reliability structure of the whole system
Planning and allocation of resources, reliability improvements and maintenance efforts to the most critical parts of the system
System reliability structure
Implementation of failure analysis studies for the different phases of the project starting already as a concept phase reliability risk analysis
System and component failure behavior

7. Guidelines proposed for ABC dependability management (2/2)
Implementation of an iterative maintainability study for early versions of the system design
Maintainability performance
Systematic gathering of reliability-related data
Collaboration between maintenance function and design function in order to form a shared understanding on data items relevant and essential for system design
Reliability-related data
Supporting system design with analysis of dependability characteristics of the previous or similar systems
Cross-sectional collaboration within organization
Exploitation of
reliability-related data

8. Conclusions
As the scope of deployments expands, the operational reliability of ABC systems will have a much higher weight in determining the fluency of overall border clearance processes at airport in Europe and elsewhere
Dependability management offers a framework for system developers to comprehensively analyze and manage the development backgrounds and dependability characteristics of individual components provided by multiple sub-contractors
In order to form a strongly structured yet an integrated entity in the whole ABC development process, continuous and solid collaboration between various stakeholders during the system’s complete lifecycle is required
Systematic dependability management throughout the system’s lifecycle facilitates ABC to meet its intended benefits:
Cost-effective operation for both system suppliers, maintenance suppliers, and most importantly, system owners

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