BACKGROUND Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) is a method used to assess the risk of failures and harms to patients during the medical process and to identify the associated clinical issues. The aim of this study was to conduct an assessment of blood transfusion process in a teaching general hospital, using FMEA as the method. METHODS A structured FMEA was recruited in our study performe...

M. Roszak, M. Spilka, A. Kania, Silesian University of Technology, Institute of Engineering Materials and Biomaterials, Gliwice, Poland The purpose of this paper is to present a concept of FMEA analysis for environmental aspects, together with a discussion of the importance, implementation and application of the proposed concept. The analyses and the developed E-FMEA methodology have resulted i...

Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is one of the well-known techniques of quality management that is used for continuous improvements in product or process designs. While applying this technique, determining the risk priority numbers, which indicate the levels of risks associated with potential problems, is of prime importance for the success of application. These numbers are generally at...

Some results of the implementation of a new support tool for automated hazard analysis are presented in this paper. We describe in detail the further progresses on the application of intelligent systems to the hazard analysis and especially to the HAZOP and FMEA analysis. A previously developed program, that allows the automatic generation of the report of the HAZOP analysis as regards the dete...

Limitations in scope but also difficulties with the efficiency and scalability of present algorithms seem to have so far limited the industrial uptake of existing automated FMEA technology. In this paper, we describe a new tool for the automatic synthesis of FMEAs which builds upon our earlier work on fault tree synthesis. The tool constructs FMEAs from engineering diagrams (e.g. developed in M...

Nowadays safety at workstations is so important for managers and they try to ensure that workstations meet minimum requirements. There are some research about using FMEA (Failure mode and effects analysis) to increase the safety at work especially in food industries and hospitals, but all of them have concentrated on safety in special points of view and they are not applicable for all fields. I...

Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) has been extensively used for examining potential failures in products, processes, designs and services. An important issue of FMEA is the determination of risk priorities of the failure modes that have been identified. The traditional FMEA determines the risk priorities of failure modes using the so-called risk priority numbers (RPNs), which require the...

The simultaneous generation of steam and power, which is commonly referred to as cogeneration, has been adopted by many sugar mills in India to overcome the power shortage. It becomes an increasingly important source of income for sugar factories. The problems faced by the sugar mill industry arise mainly due to failures of either the complete system or some specific components during the cogen...