Title
Failure mode and effects analysis using a group-based evidential reasoning approach
Abstract
Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is a methodology to evaluate a system, design, process or service for possible ways in which failures (problems, errors, risks and concerns) can occur. It is a group decision function and cannot be done on an individual basis. The FMEA team often demonstrates different opinions and knowledge from one team member to another and produces different types of assessment information such as complete and incomplete, precise and imprecise and known and unknown because of its cross-functional and multidisciplinary nature. These different types of information are very difficult to incorporate into the FMEA by the traditional risk priority number (RPN) model and fuzzy rule-based approximate reasoning methodologies. In this paper we present an FMEA using the evidential reasoning (ER) approach, a newly developed methodology for multiple attribute decision analysis. The proposed FMEA is then illustrated with an application to a fishing vessel. As is illustrated by the numerical example, the proposed FMEA can well capture FMEA team members' diversity opinions and prioritize failure modes under different types of uncertainties.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1016/j.cor.2008.05.002
Computers & OR
Keywords
DocType
Volume
effects analysis,failure mode,FMEA team,assessment information,different opinion,FMEA team member,evidential reasoning,group-based evidential reasoning approach,team member,proposed FMEA,different type
Journal
36
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
6
Computers and Operations Research
63
PageRank 
References 
Authors
2.23
12
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kwai-Sang Chin1103354.69
Ying-Ming Wang23256166.96
Gary Ka Kwai Poon32099.05
Jian-Bo Yang43832203.05