Failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) is used in the manufacturing industry to improve product quality and productivity. However, the traditional approach has many shortcomings that affect its effectiveness and limit its usefulness, especially in the early stages of design. Automating the FMEA report generation process seems to answer some of these problems, and there has been much past and...

Tasks like diagnosis, failure-modes-and-effects analysis (FMEA), and therapy proposal involve reasoning about variables and parameters deviating from some reference state. In model-based systems, one tries to capture this kind of inferences by models that describe how such deviations are emerging and propagated through a system. Several techniques and systems have been developed that address th...

BACKGROUND The aim of blood transfusion risk management is to improve the quality of blood products and to assure patient safety. We utilize failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA), a tool employed for evaluating risks and identifying preventive measures to reduce the risks in blood transfusion. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS The failure modes and effects occurring throughout the whole process of b...

1 This work was supported in part by the CEC under the grant GRD1-200140133 (AUTAS). I would like to thank the MQM group at the Technische Universität München, the partners in the AUTAS project and the reviewers for discussions and valuable hints. 2 Peter Struss, OCC’M Software and Technical University of Munich, email: [email protected], [email protected] Abstract. Tasks like diagnosis, failure-mo...

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...

anaging risk is not optional for organizations. Clause 0.1 of ISO 9004 mentions risk management in the same breath with cost and benefit considerations as being important to an organization, its customers and interested parties. Clause 5.4.2 also includes risk assessment and mitigation data as necessary inputs for efficient and effective quality planning. Some sectors, particularly aerospace an...