FMEA(Failure Mode and Effects Analysis) is a systematic method of identifying and preventing system, product and process problems. As a standard document, FMEA is produced during the design of products or systems. However, FMEA documentation is rarely validated or updated in practice after it was generated. FMEA validation remains a challenge. In this technical report, we propose to validate FM...

BACKGROUND Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a prospective risk assessment tool that has been widely used within the aerospace and automotive industries and has been utilised within healthcare since the early 1990s. The aim of this study was to explore the validity of FMEA outputs within a hospital setting in the United Kingdom. METHODS Two multidisciplinary teams each conducted an ...

Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) is a widely used quality improvement and risk assessment tool in manufacturing. Design and process failures recorded through FMEA provides valuable knowledge for future product and process design. However, the way the knowledge is captured poses considerable difficulties for reuse. This research aims to contribute to the reuse of FMEA knowledge through a ...

FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis) is a systematic method to characterize product and process problems. As a standard document, an FMEA is produced during the design of a product or system. However, once a system is deployed, the corresponding FMEA is rarely validated and updated. This is mainly due to the lack of method to validate and update FMEA. This paper argues that historical maint...

Quality and reliability of product and manufacturing process are the critical factors to the product development. However, to ensure good quality and reliability of the product and to predict any inadequacies of the product, an efficient quality system must be established at the earliest stage of the product development process. Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) is a popular quality tool ...

The Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) design discipline involves the examination at design time of the consequences of potential component failures on the functionality of a system. It is clear that this type of information could also prove useful for diagnostic purposes. Unfortunately, this information cannot be fully utilised for diagnosis when FMEA has been performed by human engineer...