The IEC 62061:2021 standard requires production owners to ensure both functional safety and information security for their industrial applications. Unfortunately, traditional models of functional safety and information security have been designed in isolation and are difficult to combine. This paper introduces the Safety & Security Combination (SafeSecCombi) approach to combine models for functional safety and security concerns in automating digital production. SafeSecCombi (i) validates causes for desired and undesired effects regarding safety in an industrial production process by linking these causes to products, production processes, and production resources; (ii) identifies Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) assets that can cause unsafe behavior in case of a successful security attack; and (iii) analyzes risks of security attacks to these IIoT assets. Therefore, SafeSecCombi provides a model for the combined analysis of safety and security concerns regarding a Cyber-Physical Production System (CPPS). In a feasibility study on an industrial work cell for metal processing with a collaborative robot, we evaluated the effectiveness and efficiency of the SafeSecCombi approach. Results indicate that the SafeSecCombi approach is feasible and effective, and provides safety and security experts with actionable, context-specific causes for security-related safety issues and countermeasures that are well grounded in engineering models, as a foundation to address the IEC 62061:2021 requirements.

Despite the prevalent use of group brainstorming for problem solving and decision-making within organizations, brainstorming sessions often lack focus and fail to produce quality ideas. We describe Momentum, a tool that elicits topic-oriented responses prior to a group brainstorm. In an exploratory study, we found qualitative differences in task focus, quality and rate of ideation, and efficiency of storytelling between users and non-users of the tool.

We will describe emerging accessible design issues, based on a second in-depth analysis of hundreds of accessibility issues documented in real projects, and a comparison of those results to a prior study of 1000+ accessibility issues. This poster will demonstrate recent trends in the top 20 UI design situations that are likely to pose problems for users with disabilities; highlight several creative design solutions; and identify several challenges that lack adequate solutions.