PURPOSE To report our early experiences with failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) in a community practice setting. METHODS The FMEA facilitator received extensive training at the AAPM Summer School. Early efforts focused on department education and emphasized the need for process evaluation in the context of high profile radiation therapy accidents. A multidisciplinary team was assembled ...

FMEA is a useful tool that helps to find possible flaws in a system or element, mainly in the design phase. But it is a mere document that has no further ''direct'' use than the observation. Mapping all this knowledge into a Bayesian Network would make it possible to use the information in further ways, like software applications for maintenance. A good FMEA has the necessary features to build ...

The goal of quality and reliability systems is the same-to achieve customer satisfaction. Quality and reliability are synonymous. A system cannot be reliable if it does not have high quality. Likewise, a system cannot be of high quality if it is not reliable. The quality performance of a firm is often assessed by the reliability of the firm's equipment or machinery. If a system is unreliable, i...

An ontology for representing operating, safety and control procedures is proposed in this paper that supports diagnosis based on following these procedures and combining observed malfunctions with Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) information. The procedure ontology is defined within interconnected components of the process plant, diagnostic analysis (where the FMEA is described) and pro...

هدف اصلی این پژوهش ارائه چارچوبی برای ارزیابی عملکرد شرکت بهره‌­برداری قطار شهری مشهد بر مبنای کارت امتیازی متوازن و تکنیک تصمیم‌­گیری چندمعیاره (بهترین ـ بدترین فازی) است. حاضر از نظر هدف، کاربردی روش، کمّی اسنادی جمع‌­آوری داده‌های کیفی اساس 15 خبره در طی مقطع زمانی بین سال­‌های 1396 تا 1398 صورت پذیرفت. 9 معیار منظر مالی، 16 مشتریان، 8 فرایند داخلی 14 رشد توسعه یادگیری طریق اسناد پژوهش­‌های پ...

Functional safety standards (ISO 26262, IEC 61508) require a safety life cycle which demands additional design and engineering tasks to be managed. This paper addresses how the existing FMEAs have to be extended and refocused to address and overview signal paths throughout the system. The safety standards require to classify signals with a SIL (Safety Integrity Level) and the higher the SIL the...

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis is widely used in engineering hardware systems to help in understanding the effects of potential failures and the faults that cause them to occur. The analysis is iterative leading to improvements in the design until the risks associated with potential failure modes are reduced to an acceptable level. Interest in applying the technique to software has increased...