5. Glossary

LCA: life cycle assessment, used to model environmental impact.

FMECA: a tool for operational safety (OS) which designates the analysis of failure modes, their effects and their criticality.

Cobot (contraction of the words "collaborative robot"): refers to robotized equipment that assists an operator in his or her tasks, notably by reducing the effort and drudgery involved in a manual task.

CPR: the priority risk figure is the product of the parameters (severity, occurrence, detectability), which quantifies the importance of a degradation.

Sustainable development: sustainable development must meet our present needs, without preventing future generations from meeting theirs.

HAZOP: HAZard OPerability is a method for analyzing plant deviations with a view to identifying...