Greetings fellow IEEE PS forum members. I am a Grad student writing an ethics paper on the Therac-25 radiation machine.
http://www.computingcases.org/case_materials/therac/therac_case_intro.html <http://www.computingcases.org/case_materials/therac/therac_case_intro.html> My paper is focusing on the ethical situation from the manufacturer's point of view and hypothetically what they should or could have done differently to solve the issue if I was their "consultant." Primarily I am interested in the ISO/IEC or international safety standards for software programming of industrial equipment or medical devices. Not necessarily to reference them but to understand the scope and to realize what the manufacturer needed/needs to do. This would also hypothetically be presented to the business management team that "contracted" me. I am a little curious too as to what extent this event has taken the existing industry. I have read that th e standards have "added unnecessary time to an already laborious process." I look forward, as always, to your comments. Best regards, Curt Bender Curtis Bender Tennant Company curtis.ben...@tennantco.com <mailto:curtis.ben...@tennantco.com> - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to emc-p...@ieee.org Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas emcp...@ptcnh.net Mike Cantwell mcantw...@ieee.org For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: j.bac...@ieee.org David Heald: emc-p...@daveheald.com All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
