FlowSort-GDSS: a novel group multi-criteria decision support system for sorting problems with application to FMEA

Francesco Lolli, Alessio Ishizaka, Rita Gamberini, Bianca Rimini, Michael Messori

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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 languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)6342–6349
JournalExpert Systems with Applications
Volume42
Issue number17-18
Early online date1 Apr 2015
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2015

Keywords

  • FMEA
  • Criticality assessment
  • Flow-Sort-GDSS
  • MCDM
  • PROMETHEE

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