in industries, preventive maintenance (pm) is not a new practice to minimise the sudden breakdown of production machine. pm will be performed at predetermine intervals to provide a balance between failure cost and component utilisation (aging). however, most of pm interval is based on experience or original equipment manufacturer (oem) recommendations. consequently, the benefits from pm are not...

The authors describe HFMEA, a five-step process used to proactively evaluate a health care process, and provide examples of a team's forms and actions regarding prostate-specific antigen testing.

the paper presents a multi-factor decision-making approach for prioritizing failure modes as an alternative to traditional approach of failure mode and effect analysis (fmea). the approach is based on the ‘technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution’ (topsis). the priority ranking is formulated on the basis of six parameters (failure occurrence, non-detection, maintainability...

The aim of this paper is to show the application of Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA) for efficient and cost-effective manufacturing. Companies need better economic gains from enhanced production, but downtime affects this paradigm. Bair Dar Textile Share Company (BDTSC) is no exception. The looming section of the case company faces on average 38.69% of downtime from the total production time...

in this paper, using numerical methods and test results, the behavior of reinforced concrete beams strengthened with fiber-reinforced polymers (frp) is investigated. in the numerical analysis, the concrete damaged plasticity model is used for considering the nonlinear behavior and strain softening of concrete. the abaqus finite element program is utilized for the analysis of 12 flexural beams s...

This article aims to show few advanced approach method for improving Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA). The possible failure situations in the system design are investigated separately considered a Hierarchical FMEA worksheet form. authors propose three different methodological methods based on hybridized fuzzy logic FMEA.

evaluation and improvement of drug management process is essential for patient safety. the present study was performed whit the aim of assessing risk of drug management process in women surgery department of qeh using hfmea method in 2013. a mixed method was used to analys failure modes and their effects with hfmea. to classify failure modes; nursing errors in clinical management model, for cla...

failure mode and effects analysis (fmea) is a method based on teamwork to identify potential failures and problems in a system, design, process and service in order to remove them. the important part of this method is determining the risk priorities of failure modes using the risk priority number (rpn). however, this traditional rpn method has several shortcomings. therefore, in this paper we p...