Our presentation at European Spallation Source - ERIC

1. ESS meeting
7th June 2016

2. 35 years’ experience
90 professionals
Hundreds of clients over Italy +
International presence
Strong experience & innovation
Leader of a group
• NSI Nier Soluzioni Informatiche
• NEXT Software Solutions
• Valore Impresa
Member of consortiums
• CO.META.
• TECNION
• CP&P
Highly qualified professional consultants providing solutions in strategic fields
to both private companies and public administrations.
Headquarters in Bologna and Milan, international operations.
Who we are

3. ENVIRONMENT & ENERGY
HEALTH & SAFETY
SYSTEM ENGINEERING
CONSULTING, TRAINING,
RESEARCH
What we do

4. What we do
System engineering
Validation and testing
Reliability and Safety analysis
Requirements management
Asset management
 RAMI studies
 Risk assessment
 Functional safety
 Reliability growth
 RMV support-system implementation
 Requirements analysis, specification,
allocation, propagation
 Requirements verification
 V&V process implementation
 Safety-related systems validation
 HW & SW validation & testing
 Equipment qualification &
conformity marking
 AM support-system implementation
 Maintenance review and optimization
 Project and industrial risk analysis
V&V: Verification & Validation
HW/SW: Hardware / Software
RAMI: Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Inspectability
AM: Asset Management
RMV: Requirement Management and Verification

5. What we do
Health & Safety
Occupational Health and Safety
Industrial and natural risks
Management systems
ISO 14001, EMAS, ISO 50001
 Workplace risk assessment
 Safety assurance in temporary/mobile construction sites
 Emergency plan
 Explosive atmospheres controlling
 Fire safety
 Major accidents
 Nuclear safety
 Dangerous material
 Critical infrastructures
 Civil Protection
 Security
Regulatory compliance
authorizations,
certificates

6. What we do
Environment & Energy
Regulatory compliance
authorizations,
certificates
Environment
Energy
Management systems
OHSAS 18001, SA 8000
 Environmental studies (EIA, EIS, SEA)
 Environmental monitoring (atmospheric emissions &
air quality, water & soil pollution, noise & vibrations,
electromagnetic fields, biodiversity, landscape)
 Environmental planning and sustainability
 Territorial energy planning
 Energy monitoring & audit
 Modelling and optimization of
energy efficiency of buildings,
plants and processes
EIA: Environmental Impact Analysis
EIS: Environmental Impact Studies
SEA: Strategic Environmental Evaluations

7. ENVIRONMENT & ENERGY
HEALTH & SAFETY
SYSTEM ENGINEERING
CONSULTING, TRAINING,
RESEARCH
Our main clients
An opportunity for integrated services

8. 2009-2012
SYSTEM ENGINEERING
FUSION FOR
ENERGY
(Spain)
Industrial risk analysis for the design and manufacturing of the Vacuum
Vessel and Toroidal field coil of the ITER machine
ACTIVITIES
 Industrial risk assessment
 Hazard identification
 Risk assessment through experts judgment
 Project simulation
 Schedule optimization

9. 2013-2016
SYSTEM ENGINEERING, HEALTH & SAFETY
FUSION FOR
ENERGY
(Spain)
Engineering support services in Risk analysis and Nuclear safety for the
ITER machine (Framework contract)
ACTIVITIES
 Nuclear risk assessment
 RAMI Analysis
 Fire risk assessment
 Requirements management
 Design and manufacturing risk assessment
 Verification & validation
ELECTRON CYCLOTRON HEATING AND CURRENT DRIVE
Courtesy Fusion for Energy

10. 2009-2012
SYSTEM ENGINEERING, HEALTH & SAFETY, ENVIRONEMENT & ENERGY
HERA
(Italy)
Characterization of the underground networks for gas (~13.000 km) and
water (~15.000 km) distribution for maintenance planning applications
ACTIVITIES
 Development of reliability models for piping
(elaboration of 10-years failure data)
 Application of vulnerability models for piping
(against extreme natural events)
 Evaluation of consequences for main
accidents at localized plants
 Development of software tools

11. 1996-2016
SYSTEM ENGINEERING, HEALTH & SAFETY, ENVIRONEMENT & ENERGY
Engineering consulting services for scientific projects
Scientific Projects
 INFN-LNGS (Italy)
 Support to Prevention and Protection
Service (since 1996)
 Scientific projects (since 2000): BOREXINO,
ICARUS T3000, OPERA, GERDA, DARK SIDE
(Fermilab), XENON (Princeton University)
 Canfranc Underground Laboratory (Spain)
ARGON DARK MATTER
http://www.nature.com/news/gran-sasso-chamber-of-physics-1.10696

12. 2013-2016
SOME RESEARCH PROJETCS
ASMAPSA_E
Advanced Safety Assessment Methodologies: Extended Probabilistic
Safety Analysis of Nuclear Power Plants
(EURATOM - FP7 framework)
2012-2014
THREVI2
Threat-vulnerability path identification for Critical Infrastructure
(European Commission - DG Home Affairs)
2012-2014
RAMSAAT
Reliability, Availability, Maintainability, Safety Advanced Analysis Tools
(Agreement on Industrial, Scientific and Technological Research and
Development Cooperation between Italy and Israel )

13. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION:
Loredana Coda
+39 366 907.65.98
l.coda@niering.it