With only 10% of emergency procedure content being unique, current practices of individual procedure documents make for a maintenance nightmare. Using semantic analysis, the tool parses procedures into individual chunks as a first step in modularizing procedures.
This prototype is designed to help eliminate redundancies in procedures through the use of semantic analysis. As an example, multiple procedures may call for the shutdown of a piece of equipment. Everytime the process of shutting down that piece of equipment is changed, every procedure that references it must also be updated. Modularizing procedures has the potential to ease procedure maintenance and ensure that operators have the right information at the right time.
The first step is to identify those unique tasks. The SPA Tool will require some effort to use, but it was found to be effective in parsing procedures into unique those chunks.
The following files are available:
- SPA Tool Executable
- SPA Source Code
- SPA Demo - A short demo walks through the process of importing and processing a procedure
Note: Every intention was made to ensure that the provided files are comprehensive, but it was created in 2012-13 and updates to the software have not been made.