Objective Using Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) as an example quality improvement approach, our objective was to evaluate whether secondary use of orders, forms, and notes recorded by the electronic health record (EHR) during daily practice can enhance the accuracy of process maps used to guide improvement. We examined discrepancies between expected and observed activities and individu...

The comprehensive on-board diagnosis of faults in many aerospace and other engineered systems requires real time execution using limited computational resources, and must also provide verifiable behaviour. This paper shows how a diagnostic system satisfying these requirements can be automatically generated from the model based simulation used to produce an automated Failure Modes and Effect Ana...

Failure Mode Effect Analysis (FMEA) is one of user friendly and handy tool available in the hands of the process industries to identifying and eliminating the potential failures in systems, processes and designing. In this FMEA method prioritization of the failure modes are based on Risk Priority Number (RPN). This RPN can be calculated by multiplying the scores of various risk factors and cate...

Proses pemeriksaan akhir pada perusahaan manufakur merupakan aktivitas yang dilakukan sebelum produk akan dikirim ke customer. Perkembangan komputerisasi dalam kebutuhan saat ini untuk menjalankan salah satunya perancangan dan pengembangan sistem inspeksi digital. Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) satu metode dapat perbaikan kinerja suatu bisnis komponen di dalamnya. FMEA melakukan anali...

failure relationship Figure 6: Fault tree for the failure plugged up of a Filter. Wifa supports a user mainly by providing comfortable access to FMEA cases. She or he can, for example, retrieve actions that have been taken for similar failure modes. 4.7 Completeness and Consistency of System Description The goal of a system description should be to include everything that is of practical releva...

The next generation of particle accelerators will be one-of-a-kind facilities, and to meet their luminosity goals they must have guaranteed availability over their several decade lifetimes. The Next Linear Collider (NLC) is one viable option for a 1 TeV electronpositron linear collider, it has an 85% overall availability goal. We previously showed how a traditional Failure Modes and Effects Ana...

Industrial radiography has its inimitable role in non-destructive examinations. Industrial radiography devices, consisting of significantly high activity of the radioisotopes, are operated manually by remotely held control unit. Malfunctioning of these devices may cause potential exposure to the operator and nearby public, and thus should be practiced under a systematic risk control. To ensure ...

Patient safety concerns in healthcare are not new or unexpected, and one goal of all healthcare organizations is to provide the safest possible care for patients and their families. With that goal in mind, Annapolis Valley Health, a rural district health authority in Nova Scotia, identified the need to develop expertise in the use of failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) as a tool to promote...

BACKGROUND Medical errors are one of the greatest problems in any healthcare systems. The best way to prevent such problems is errors identification and their roots. Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) technique is a prospective risk analysis method. This study is a review of risk analysis using FMEA technique in different hospital wards and departments. METHODS This paper systematically...