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...

Failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) is one of the most widely employed pre-evaluation techniques to avoid risks during product design manufacturing phases. Risk priority number (RPN), a risk assessment indicator used in FMEA, field due its simple calculation process, but limitations as an absolute have been pointed out. There has also criticism unstructured nature lack systematicity FMEA pr...

Increasingly complex systems lead to an interweaving of security, safety, availability and reliability concerns. Most dependability analysis techniques do not include security aspects. In order to include security, a holistic risk model for systems is needed. In our novel approach, the basic failure cause, failure mode and failure effect model known from FMEA is used as a template for a vulnera...

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...

Technical systems are prevalent in many areas of our society. Nowadays they often include a considerable amount of software. Identification and avoidance of technical risks is of major importance in the development of these softwareintensive technical systems. A powerful analysis technique in the development process for technical systems is the Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA). This tec...