Constructability analysis and the resulting adjustments in facility design have a significant potential in improving cost effectiveness of construction projects. However, traditional constructability knowledge acquisition techniques are the key barrier to successful constructability improvement. A new approach to automated constructability lessons-learned documentation and constructability anal...

The maintenance dataset provided by SunWater contains information about failed assets also known as components and their corresponding failure modes. Currently, extraction of this information from the dataset been conducted in a manual manner, which is very tedious, time consuming and cumbersome work. It is necessary to discover an automatic method to decide/extract the failure mode. This paper...

Reliability studies and system health predictions are mostly based on the use of probability laws to model the failure of components. Behavior of the components of the system under study is represented by probability distributions, derived from failure statistics. The parameters of these laws are assumed to be precise and well known, which is not always true in practice. Impact of such imprecis...

FMEA has been used for several years and proved its efficiency for system’s risk analysis due to failures. Risk priority number found in FMEA is used to rank failure modes that may occur in a system. There are some guidelines in the literature to assign the values of FMEA components known as Severity, Occurrence and Detection. This paper propose a method to assign the value for occurrence in mo...

Prognostics methods are being developed to evaluate the reliability of a system in its actual life-cycle conditions, to estimate the times to failure and to mitigate system risks. A key requirement in any prognostics method is identification of the appropriate parameter(s), which, can be used to asses impending failure, if monitored. This paper presents a physics-of-failure based methodology, w...

The goal of the FMECA (Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis) process is to determine the consequences that failures may have on the function of a complex system. In aeronautic industries, this process is very important and must comply with international standards. Today, most of the process is performed manually. This can be problematic, since, although the basic process is not diffic...

The metro door system is one of the high failure rate subsystems of metro trains. The Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis (FMECA) method is applied to analyze the reliability of metro door system in this paper. Firstly, failure components of the door are statistically analyzed, and the major failure components are determined. Secondly, failures are classified according to their impac...