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.

prevention of medication errors in neonatal intensive care units (nicus) is of paramount importance due to age-specific and physiological conditions of neonates. this study aimed to evaluate the risk of medication prescription and administration via failure mode and effects analysis (fmea), which was carried out at the research and medical teaching center of imam reza hospital in mashhad, iran....

Wind turbine failure and downtime can often compromise the profitability of a wind farm due to their high impact on the operation and maintenance (O&M) costs. Early detection of failures can facilitate the changeover from corrective maintenance towards a predictive approach. This paper presents a cost-e↵ective methodology to combine various alarm analysis techniques, using data from the Supervi...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Failure mode and effects analysis Data envelopment analysis Overall risks Risk priority ranking Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is a method that examines potential failures in products or processes and has been used in many quality management systems. One important issue of FMEA is the determination of the risk priorities of failure modes. In this paper ...

numerous types of development projects, Adams reported similar numbers, where only about one-fourth of all projects entering development become a market success (2004). Datta and Mukerjee (2001) stated that “successful project completion depends to a great extent on the early identifi cation of immediate risks.” Jiang et al. (2002), using factor analysis, confi rmed their hypothesis that risks ...

Unreliable failure detectors are abstract devices that, when added to asynchronous distributed systems, allow to solve distributed computing problems (e.g. Consensus) that otherwise would be impossible to solve in these systems. This paper focuses on two classes of failure detectors defined by Chandra and Toueg, namely, the classes denoted 3P (eventually perfect) and 3S (eventually strong). Bot...

This paper introduces a new method for safety analysis called HiPHOPS (Hierarchically Performed Hazard Origin and Propagation Studies). HiP-HOPS originates from a number of classical techniques such as Functional Failure Analysis, Failure Mode and Effects Analysis and Fault Tree Analysis. However, it extends, automates and integrates these techniques in order to address some of the problems cur...

Failure mode and reliability analysis is particularly important for robot manipulators to be deployed in remote environments, where inspection and repair are di cult, and reliability is of prime importance. This is particularly true for manipulators involved in hazardous waste management operations, where failure could be both expensive and highly dangerous. In this paper, we describe a Fault T...

Fault Tree Analysis (FTA) has become a popular tool for use in the Space Industry for the System Safety Engineer. The fault tree is used for everything from tracking hazard reports to investigating accidents, as well as presentations to management. Yet, experience in the space industry has shown the fault tree is used most often for purposes other than its original intent, namely for evaluating...