After the 2008 Wall Street crash, it became clear to economists that financial systems, along with other social and economic systems, are not immune to being manipulated by small groups of players to their own advantage. Given this, two natural questions arise. For a particular policy design or proposed economic system, can such manipulation be foreseen in advance and possibly prevented? And ca...

The aim of this paper was the application of the failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) approach to assess the risks for patients undergoing radiotherapy treatments performed by means of a helical tomotherapy unit. FMEA was applied to the preplanning imaging, volume determination, and treatment planning stages of the tomotherapy process and consisted of three steps: 1) identification of the i...

The need to establish power plants to supply the required electricity of the country has been rising due to increasing demand levels as well as the lack of governmental resources. Furthermore, the available traditional attitude in performing and conducting power plant projects has made government seek a modern attitude. This paper tries to use the topics that have been employed in automotive in...

Reliability Centered Maintenance(RCM) is one of most widely used methods in the modern power system to schedule a maintenance cycle and determine the priority of inspection. In order to apply the RCM method to the Smart Grid, a precedence study for the new structure of rearranged system should be performed due to introduction of additional installation such as renewable and sustainable energy r...

Preventive methods are seldom used in logistics, although there is increasing awareness of their potential. This paper presents two examples of preventive methods currently in use, Poka-Yoke and FMEA (Failure Mode and Effect Analysis). The implementation of Poka-Yoke, the mistake proofing methodology, has been shown to drastically reduce the enormous warranty costs, including logistics costs, w...

Background: Quality assurance (QA) plays a critical role in patient safety during radiation therapy. Among various QA checks, pretreatment physics plan review is sensitive at detecting errors before beam delivery. Therefore, we aimed to assess the detected and chart (PTPCR) through failure mode effects analysis (FMEA) evaluate quality effectiveness of PTPCR performed our clinic.

An important part of the quality management system of the company is to establish procedures for quality planning. The sense of quality planning is in the prevention of either construction or manufacture failures, respectively their causes. Nevertheless it is a tool to increase the likelihood of early detection. FMEA method – analysis of possible failures and consequences (Failure Mode and Effe...

The paper aims to introduce an approach that integrates a technique of knowledge engineering (Ontologies) and a technique of quality engineering (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis). An approach will be set up that shows the potentials of combining IT-based systems of knowledge and quality engineering. Particularly with regard to the quality engineering technique, the paper aims to demonstrate t...