Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) is a widely used quality improvement and risk assessment tool in manufacturing. Design and process failures recorded through FMEA provides valuable knowledge for future product and process design. However, the way the knowledge is captured poses considerable difficulties for reuse. This research aims to contribute to the reuse of FMEA knowledge through a ...

The systematic maintenance of mining machinery and equipment is the crucial factor for the proper functioning of a mine without production process interruption. For high-quality maintenance of the technical systems in mining, it is necessary to conduct a thorough analysis of machinery and accompanying elements in order to determine the critical elements in the system which are prone to failures...

The purpose of all service institutions, including banks is to provide appropriate services for the customers' satisfaction. In fact, the key to the success of these organizations relates to the customer-orientation and focus on the quality of services. Since the organizations providing financial service, especially banks operate in an environment with indistinct products, their quality service...

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....

A value/risk -based performance evaluation framework is proposed in the context of manufacturing processes at the industrialization phase of product development. Various risk factors of the manufacturing process are identified through Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) and then embedded in the process plan models. Modelling and simulation are then employed for determining the value a proce...

in the process of investment decision making, next to financial indicators many other aspects of investment projects are increasingly often considered. this leads to the multi-criteria evaluation of a project. the advantage of multi-criteria methods is the ability to take into account all (not only financial) aspects of the attractiveness of an investment project. the selection of criteria of p...

Health care failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA) is a widely used technique for assessing risk of patient injury by prospectively identifying and prioritizing potential system failures. In this study, we conducted in situ simulations at a major suburban hospital as a novel method to discover latent conditions and active failures and to prioritize these based on the potential severity of ri...

Introduction: Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a structured way to find and understand the states of a system’s failure and to calculate the resulting effects. In this method, which has been criticized by many researchers, the risk priority number is obtained for each failure mode based on the multiplication of the three parameters of occurrence (O), severity (S) and detection (D). I...