First, the underlying ontology should be developed and modeled using more widespread used tools to facilitate greater understanding, adoption, and acceptance by the community.
Over the past decade use of FLACS has been more widespread, and the tool is now frequently used to predict explosions on onshore facilities and FPSOs/FLNGs, where far-field blast loads and evaluation of DDT potential may be of significant interest.
The more widespread use of tools or decision-aids to assist patient decision-making may be a potential solution [ 27].
But we have a more widespread, readily available diagnostic tool which has fallen out of favor: the chest X-ray.
These issues will need to be addressed in order to ensure full access to and more widespread use of the tool.
We show in this article that, while in fact there is a thorough and varied set of ecodesign tools available, they will not allow ecodesign to become more widespread while they remain tools for experts.
More work is needed to promote more widespread use of these tools and to address barriers to implementation.
In the particular case of operation of plant, the use of a 'living' safety case or probabilistic safety assessment, building upon operational experience, is becoming more widespread, both as an operational tool and as a basis for communication with the regulator.
"As these tools become more widespread, there are more people online, which means more people to mobilise and galvanise," says Gerald C Kane, associate professor of information systems at Boston College.
With more accurate design processes and tools becoming more widespread, there is a move toward using more representative properties than these lower bound values.
