MANAGEMENT FOR COMBINED DIGITAL INNOVATION AND SAFETY-CRITICALITY

Important results from the project

The project has addressed new organizational and innovation capabilities to manage opportunities and consequences of the digital transformation. The project has focused on complex systems that have a societal critical function. The project has focused on how safety-criticality and generative digital innovation can be combined and how this affects the interplay between technology, management and organizational aspects. The project has met its goals and also contributed to a broader perspective and theory building including AI and resilience.

Expected long term effects

Several important results contribute to an increased understanding and awareness of and solutions for how combined safety-criticality and generative digital innovation affect the interplay between technical, management and organizational aspects. The results include a model with different levels of digitalization in complex systems, including the use of digital solutions. Digitalization can lead to complexity beyond human understanding which can be managed through a combination of organizational approaches and the use of digital models and simulations.

Approach and implementation

The results of the project are based on a in-depth study of avionics development. Through an analysis of the introduction of digital technology and an increased role for digital solutions in safety-critical parts, a model has been developed that shows different levels of digitalization in complex systems. The project also includes studies of WARA PS, one of the WASP program´s demonstration arenas that focuses on a marine rescue scenario for further studies of the combination of safety-criticality and generativity. The Boeing 737 MAX case has also been studied.