Abstract
Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is a well-known approach for correlating the failure modes of a system to their effects, with the objective of assessing their criticality. The criticality of a failure mode is traditionally established by its risk priority number (RPN), which is the product of the scores assigned to the three risk factors, which are likeness of occurrence, the chance of being undetected and the severity of the effects. Taking a simple “unweighted” product has major shortcomings. One of them is to provide just a number, which does not sort failures modes into priority classes. Moreover, to make the decision more robust, the FMEA is better tackled by multiple decision-makers. Unfortunately, the literature lacks group decision support systems (GDSS) for sorting failures in the field of the FMEA.
Original language | English |
---|---|
Pages (from-to) | 6342–6349 |
Journal | Expert Systems with Applications |
Volume | 42 |
Issue number | 17-18 |
Early online date | 1 Apr 2015 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Oct 2015 |
Keywords
- FMEA
- Criticality assessment
- Flow-Sort-GDSS
- MCDM
- PROMETHEE