Reprioritization of failures in a system failure mode and effects analysis by decision making trial and evaluation laboratory technique

S.M. Seyed-Hosseini, N. Safaei and M.J. Asgharpour

Reliability Engineering and System Safety, 2006, vol. 91, issue 8, 872-881

Abstract: In this paper an effective methodology related to decision making field has been developed for reprioritization of failure modes in a system Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) for corrective actions. The proposed methodology can cover some of inherently shortcomings of conventional Risk Priority Number (RPN) method and like. The current prioritization methods have two main deficiencies as: they have not considered indirect relations between components and are deficient for systems with many subsystems or components. The proposed method called Decision Making Trial and Evaluation Laboratory (DEMATEL) is an effective approach for analyzing relation between components of a system in respect to its type (direct/indirect) and severity. The main advantages of DEMATEL are involving indirect relations in analyze, allocating as possible as unique ranks to alternatives and clustering alternatives in large systems. The demonstrated results have shown that DEMATEL method can be an efficient, complementary and confident approach for reprioritization of failure modes in a FMEA. For verification of proposed methodology, two illustrative practical examples are solved and obtained outcomes are reported.

Keywords: Failure mode and effects analysis; Decision making trial and evaluation laboratory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2005.09.005

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