A new reliability allocation weight for reducing the occurrence of severe failure effects

Kyungmee O. Kim, Yoonjung Yang and Ming J. Zuo

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2013, vol. 117, issue C, 81-88

Abstract: A reliability allocation weight is used during the early design stage of a system to apportion the system reliability requirement to its individual subsystems. Since some failures have serious effects on public safety, cost and environmental issues especially in a mission critical system, the failure effect must be considered as one of the important factors in determining the allocation weight. Previously, the risk priority number or the criticality number was used to consider the failure effect in the allocation weight. In this paper, we identify the limitations of the previous approach and propose a new allocation weight based on the subsystem failure severity and its relative frequency. An example is given to illustrate that the proposed method is more effective than the previous method for reducing the occurrence of the unacceptable failure effects in a newly designed system.

Keywords: Severity ranking; Failure modes and effect analysis (FMEA); Relative failure frequency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2013.04.002

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