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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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A Design of a Digital Lockout Tagout System with Machine Learning

Chen, Brandon H 01 December 2022 (has links) (PDF)
Lockout Tagout (LOTO) is a safety procedure instated by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) when doing maintenance on dangerous machinery and hazardous power sources. In this procedure, authorized workers shut off the machinery and use physical locks and tags to prevent operation during maintenance. LOTO has been the industry standard for 32 years since it was instantiated, being used in many different industries such as industrial work, mining, and agriculture. However, LOTO is not without its issues. The LOTO procedure requires employees to be trained and is prone to human error. As well, there is a clash between the technological advancement of machinery and the requirement of physical locks and tags required for LOTO. In this thesis, we propose a digital LOTO system to help streamline the LOTO procedure and increase the safety of the workers with machine learning. We first discuss what LOTO is, its current requirements, limitations, and issues. Then we look at current IoT locks and digital LOTO solutions and compare them to the requirements of traditional LOTO. Then we present our proposed digital LOTO system which will enhance the safety of workers and streamline the LOTO process with machine learning. Our digital LOTO system uses a rule-based system that enforces and streamlines the LOTO procedure and uses machine learning to detect potential violations of LOTO standards. We also validate that our system fulfills the requirements of LOTO and that the combination of machine learning and rule-based systems ensures the safety of workers by detecting violations with high accuracy. Finally, we discuss potential future work and improvements on this system as this thesis is part of a larger collaboration with Chevron, which plans to implement a digital LOTO system in their oil fields.

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