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...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To assess and improve the safety of hospital-based adult chemotherapy administration. DESIGN Prospective, systems-focused clinical risk assessment. SETTING An adult inpatient and outpatient oncology unit in a large urban hospital in the United Kingdom. SAMPLE 8-person nurse-led multidisciplinary team, which included managerial staff and patient safety researchers. MET...

In this study, failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA), a proactive tool, was applied to reduce errors associated with the process which begins with assessment of patient and ends with treatment of complications. The aim of this study is to assess whether FMEA implementation will significantly reduce the incidence of catheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBSIs) in intensive care unit.The FM...

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a systematic method for procedure analyses and risk assessment. It is a structured way to identify potential failure modes of a product or process, probability of their occurrence, and their overall effects. The basic purpose of this analysis is to mitigate the risk and the impact associated to a failure by planning and prioritizing actions to make a ...

OBJECTIVE This case study article examines a formal risk assessment as part of the decision making process for design solutions in high risk areas. The overview of the Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) tool with examples of its application in hospital building projects will demonstrate the benefit of those structured conversations. BACKGROUND This article illustrates how two hospitals...

In order to effectively analyze, control, and prevent occupational health risk and ensure the reliability of the weight, a method based on FMEA (failure mode and effects analysis) and an improved AHP (analytic hierarchy process) model was established. The occupational disease of the occupational health and safety management system (OHSAS18001) of the mining industry in the southwest of Hubei Pr...

0957-4174/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier Ltd. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2012.08.010 ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: College of De University, 1239 Siping Road, Shanghai 200092, PR 6598 3432. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (H.-C (L. Liu), [email protected] (N. Liu). Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is a risk assessment tool that mitigates potential failures in sys...