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Failure mode and effects analysis is an effective and powerful risk evaluation technique in the field of risk management, and it has been extensively used in various industries for identifying and decreasing known and potential failure modes in syste...

As a safety and reliability analysis technique, failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) has been used extensively in several industries for the identification and elimination of known and potential failures. However, some shortcomings associated wit...

Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) is a method which involves quantitative failure analysis. It systematically examines potential failure modes in a system, as well as the components of the system, to determine the impact of a fai...

With the rapid growth of express delivery industry, service failure has become an increasingly pressing issue. However, there is a lack of research on express service failure risk assessment within the Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) framewo...

It is crucial to investigate the risk factors inherent in the medication process for cancer patients since improper antineoplastic drug use frequently has serious consequences. As a result, the Severity, Occurrence, and Detection rate of each potenti...

High-voltage disconnect switches (HVDSs) are crucial for ensuring visible electrical isolation but often operate under challenging environmental conditions. While current monitoring methods can detect faults, simply identifying them is not enough for...

Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is a popular and useful approach applied to examine potential failures in different products, designs, processes, and services. As a vital index, the risk priority number (RPN) can determine the risk prioritie...

Introduction: The frozen section intra-operative consultation is a pathology procedure that provides real-time evaluations of tissue samples during surgery, enabling quick and informed decisions. In the pre-analytical phase, errors related to sample...

In this paper, multiclass classification is used to develop a novel approach to enhance failure mode and effects analysis and the generation of risk priority number. This is done by developing four machine learning models using auto machine learning....

Over the past 25 years, maintenance processes for the wooden sleeper turnouts of sleeper floating tracks (known as STEDEF) have been insufficient, lacking accurate maintenance history and failure cause analyses. Currently, damaged parts are repeatedl...

Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), as a commonly used risk management method, has been extensively applied to the engineering domain. A vital parameter in FMEA is the risk priority number (RPN), which is the product of occurrence (O), severity...

This paper investigates the reliability of a dual-axis solar tracking system using Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), and Reliability Block Diagrams (RBD). The system’s control and data transfer subsystems are...

Photovoltaic (PV) installations require maintenance prioritization models capable of ranking technically diverse failure modes under operational, safety, and serviceability constraints. Conventional Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) approaches...

Design experts need to fully understand the failure risk of a product to improve its quality and reliability. However, design experts have different understandings of and concepts in the risk evaluation process, which will lead to cognitive asymmetry...

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a proactive management technique widely used to improve the reliability of products and processes across various business sectors. Due to rapid changes stemming from uncertain environments, numerous studies...

Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) is a useful tool to define, identify, and eliminate potential failures or errors so as to improve the reliability of systems, designs, and products. Risk evaluation is an important issue in FMEA to determine th...

The semiconductor manufacturing sector has contributed to the advancement of technical development in the sphere of industrial applications, but one crucial factor that cannot be overlooked is the evaluation of a machine’s state. Despite the pr...

Solar photovoltaic (PV) systems are becoming increasingly popular because they offer a sustainable and cost-effective solution for generating electricity. PV panels are the most critical components of PV systems as they convert solar energy into elec...

Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is a popular technique in reliability analyses. In a typical FMEA, there are three risk factors for each failure modes: Severity (S), occurrence (O), and detectability (D). These will be included in calculatin...

Conventional Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (PFMEA) is linear and does not explicitly include a systems-based perspective that accounts for the complexity in which all manufacturing systems operate. In an illustrative case study using hypo...

Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is a proactive risk management approach. Risk management under uncertainty with the FMEA method has attracted a lot of attention. The Dempster–Shafer (D-S) evidence theory is a popular approximate reason...

This paper proposes an improved failure mode and effect analysis method for a comprehensive failure analysis that provides a holistic perspective of actions on the potential failures of floating offshore wind turbines. A new way of constructing risk...

User experience (UX) is crucial for interactive system design. To improve UX, one method is to identify failure modes related to UX and then take action on the high-priority failure modes to decrease their negative impacts. For the UX of interactive...

Drainage pipes play a crucial role in maintaining the functionality of cities and ensuring the smooth flow of daily life for its inhabitants. However, due to their placement either in shallow ground or within building foundations, maintenance of thes...

The electromechanical servo is the preferred aviation servo actuator system now. EMA (electromechanical actuators), especially EMA of airplanes, will inevitably occur a variety of faults. FMECA (Failure Modes, Effect and Criticality Analysis) is comm...

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are a prominent component of the modern digital transformation, which combines the dynamics of the physical processes with those of software and networks. Critical infrastructures have built-in CPS, and assessing its risk...

In the development of safety-critical systems, it is important to perform failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) to identify potential failures. However, traditional FMEA activities tend to be considered difficult and time-consuming tasks. To comp...

Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) are a highly efficient chemical to electrical energy conversion devices that have potential in a global energy strategy. The wide adoption of SOFCs is currently limited by cost and concerns about cell durability. Improv...

Introduction: Correct perioperative management of anticoagulant therapy is essential to prevent thromboembolic events and reduce the risk of bleeding. The lack of universally accepted guidelines makes perioperative anticoagulant therapy management di...

Cylindrical lithium-ion batteries are widely used in consumer electronics, electric vehicles, and energy storage applications. However, safety risks due to thermal runaway-induced fire and explosions have prompted the need for safety analysis methodo...

Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis are widely used to assess the failure modes of a system, along with their causes and effects. Several Multi-Criteria Decision-Making approaches have been developed to overcome the limitations of the tr...

The construction industry is considered as one of the most dangerous industries in terms of occupational safety and has a high rate of occupational incidents and risks compared to other industries. Given the importance of identifying and assessing th...

Nowadays, Busbars have been extensively used in electrical vehicle industry. Therefore, improving the risk assessment for the production could help to screen the associated failure and take necessary actions to minimize the risk. In this research, a...

Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) is a system reliability analysis technique that has been widely used in various industries to reduce the failure risk of products, systems, and services. However, traditional FMEA methods have limitations in ma...

Tailings dams remain on site following mine closures and must be designed and reclaimed to meet long-term goals, which may include walk-away closure or long-term care and maintenance. The underperformance of these structures can result in significant...

Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) is a useful risk assessment tool used to identify, evaluate, and eliminate potential failure modes in numerous fields to improve security and reliability. Risk evaluation is a crucial step in FMEA and the Risk...

Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) helps to identify the weak points in the processing, manufacturing, and assembly of products and plays an important role in improving product reliability. To address the shortcomings of the existing FMEA metho...

Competition in the industry forces palm oil producers to keep raising the caliber of their output. One of the businesses involved in the Crude Palm Oil sector is PT. XYZ. The quality of the CPO that PT. XYZ produces is a top priority. To ascertain th...

The failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA), as an effective proactive reliability analysis technique, plays an important role in system fault detection and reliability maintenance due to its pre-analysis capability. Although traditional FMEA is wide...

Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is crucial for complex system reliability. However, traditional FMEA and its existing enhancements face significant limitations. These notably include difficulties in handling diverse heterogeneous data, effe...

This article aims to align its content with current trends in hybrid risk analysis methods while utilizing experimental research. This paper presents a hybrid methodology for analyzing the failure severity of a two-stage hydrogen-powered combustion s...

With the progress of China’s economy, there is an increasing focus on accessibility systems. Enhancements to accessibility infrastructure are being implemented in all types of structures, with a particular focus on educational institutions such...

Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA), as a means of identifying, preventing, and controlling potential system failures, has been widely applied in many industries. However, the classic FMEA method has several drawbacks in practical applications,...

The reliable operation of a process plant is critical to the safety, performance, and profitability of a business. Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a process of reviewing systems, subsystems, and equipment that identify potential failure m...

Assessing and reducing compliance risks can now be considered one of the core criteria for business success. While failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) is widely used in engineering, its application in the financial sector is quite novel, primaril...

In this paper, a fuzzy failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) method is proposed by combining fault theory and a failure analysis method. The method addresses the problem of board thickness control failure and the problem of thickness deviation def...

In this study, the availability and the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) are investigated considering failure rate and downtime for onshore wind turbines in Japan. The failure mode effect analysis is conducted using the wind turbine failure database c...

In recent decades, many researchers have focused on the issue of medical failures in the healthcare industry. A variety of techniques have been employed to assess the risk of medical failure and to generate strategies to reduce the frequency of medic...

The electrical generation industry is looking for techniques to precisely determine the proper maintenance policy and schedule of their assets. Reliability-centered maintenance (RCM) is a methodology for choosing what maintenance activities have to b...

Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) has been proven to be an effective methodology to improve system design reliability. However, the standard approach reveals some weaknesses when applied to wind turbine systems. The conventional criticality as...