Heavy industrial vehicles operating in aluminum smelters are exposed to severe thermal, mechanical, and environmental stresses, which increase the likelihood of failure and unplanned downtime. This study proposes an Economic Risk Priority Number (ERP...
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...
Mineral resource extraction and urban expansion in resource-based cities have progressively degraded regional ecosystems, leading to increasingly fragmented ecological patterns. Ecological network resilience plays a critical role in maintaining regio...
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....
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...
This study presents a comparative Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) of electro-hydraulic braking (EHB) and electro-mechanical braking (EMB) systems within brake-by-wire architectures. The analysis integrates both the conventional Risk Priorit...
The failure mode causes and effects analysis (FMCEA) is a commonly used reliability approach. It identifies, predicts, and analyzes potential failure modes affecting the proper function of equipment or the process under study, along with their roots...
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 modes and effects analysis (
The metro network plays a vital role in the urban transportation system. However, the metro network is easily damaged by humans and natural disturbances. This can cause serious economic damage, such as the suspension of metro station operations and l...
This study investigates the determinants of service demand in the packaging and printing industry, identifying 19 key factors through expert evaluation. These factors were analyzed using the Importance–Satisfaction (I–S) Model to pinpoint...
Overproduction is one of the most significant wastes of Lean that can occur in any manufacturing company. Identifying and prioritizing failures that lead to overproduction are crucial tasks for operational managers and engineers. Therefore, this pape...
Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) has been extensively used by wind turbine assembly manufacturers for analyzing, evaluating and prioritizing potential/known failure modes. However, several limitations are associated with its practical impleme...
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 the most commonly used risk evaluation tool in industry and academia. After four revisions, the US Automotive Industry Action Groups (AIAG) and German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) issued the...
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 order to secure the safe operation of the ship, it is crucial to closely examine the suitability from the design stage of the ship, and to set up a preliminary review and countermeasures for failures and defects that may occur during the construct...
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...
Water Distribution System (WDS) pipe failures are one of the most critical issues in WDS management. In order to identify them, a machine learning approach was applied to eight years of geolocated data on pipe failures to establish priorities for WDS...
As a typical tool of risk analysis in practical engineering, failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) theory is a well known method for risk prediction and prevention. However, how to quantify the uncertainty of the subjective assessments from FMEA e...
A marine energy system, which is fundamentally not paired with electric grids, should work for an extended period with high reliability. To put it in another way, by employing electrical utilities on a ship, the electrical power demand has been incre...
Risk priority number (RPN) is the most commonly used failure risk ranking method among all risk assessment methods. However, the traditional RPN method not only cannot handle incomplete information and hesitation information (such as hesitation infor...
There is currently a limited understanding of what nurses in nursing homes view as the key education priorities to support their ability to provide the appropriate care for residents with heart failure (HF). A modified Delphi technique was utilized t...
This paper investigates the well-posedness (WP) and asymptotic stability of a standby repairable system with partial failure and priority, wherein components in a partial failure state remain unrepaired during system operation. The governing integro-...
Frailty is highly prevalent in patients with heart failure (HF) and frequently coexists with malnutrition, sarcopenia, cachexia, and obesity, creating substantial challenges for nutritional assessment and management. These conditions overlap clinical...
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...
A single-server non-pre-emptive priority queueing system of a finite capacity with many types of customers is analyzed. Inter-arrival times can be correlated and batch arrivals are allowed. Possible unreliability of the server, implying the loss of a...
Accurate fault risk assessment is essential for maintaining wind turbine reliability. Traditional failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA)-based approaches struggle to handle the fuzziness, uncertainty, and conflicting nature of multi-criteria evalu...
This paper proposes and validates a hybrid FMEA-AHP framework designed to quantify the systemic asymmetries inherent in the automotive green transition. By moving beyond traditional component-level failure analysis, this model introduces the Market M...
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...
Warehouse accidents have become of wide concern to the public because they often cause heavy economic losses and heavy casualties. Therefore, it is critical to foster the safety and reliability of warehouse facilities to reduce accidents. However, in...
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...
In this paper, we propose a system of two dissimilar units: one unit prioritizes operation (priority unit), and the other unit is kept as a cold standby (ordinary unit). In this system, we assume that the failures, repairs, and preventive maintenance...
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...
Uncertainty is a key factor in the reliability assessment of complex engineering systems, especially when they operate under variable conditions that affect component degradation. This study presents a framework for the systematic and uncertainty-bas...
This paper describes a study conducted to develop a method to facilitate more reliable determination of the rehabilitation priority order for water pipes by taking into account the pipes’ hydraulic importance. Existing methods use only the pipeline d...
Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) is one of the most widely employed pre-evaluation techniques to avoid risks that may occur during product design and manufacturing phases. However, use of the risk priority number (RPN) in traditional FMEA resu...
In the paper, we address Bayesian sensitivity issues when integrating experts’ judgments with available historical data in a case study about strategies for the preventive maintenance of low-pressure cast iron pipelines in an urban gas distribution n...
The implementation of Digital Twins (DTs) represents a significant advancement for the Oil and Gas (O&G) industry. A DT virtually replicates a physical asset, enabling the monitoring, diagnosis, prediction, and optimization of its outcomes. Since...
Due to the deficiency of radio spectrum resources caused by the progress in technology, cognitive radio networks (CRNs) have made significant progress. CRNs have two types of users, namely, primary users (PUs) and secondary users (SUs). Considering t...
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...
7 December 2022
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...
Risk evaluation is an important part of the product design and product manufacturing process; it entails the pursuit of the highest product quality and preventing failure under the constraints of limited resources. The failure mode and effects analys...
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...
Shipboard integrated electric propulsion systems (IEPSs) are prone to suffer from system failures and security threats because of their complex functional structures and poor operational environments. An improved assessment method for failure mode an...
Process Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (PFMEA) is the standard technique for proactive risk assessment in automotive assembly lines. To support differentiated criterion weighting, hesitancy-aware linguistic evaluation and rank stability validation...
Agricultural support programs distribute payments to farms based on a diverse set of policy objectives. Adequate targeting of this support to priority areas is key to efficient and effective policy. We evaluated the targeting strategy of a national-l...
Scaffold-related falls remain a major safety concern in demolition projects, where temporary access systems are frequently erected, modified, used, and dismantled under changing structural and site conditions. These characteristics complicate risk pr...
Reliability is an important index which determines the power service and quality provided to customers. As the demand increases continuously and the system changes in accordance with the environmental regulation, the reliability assessment in the dis...
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...
of 13