 Failure function matrix for interconnected equipment failure analysisNiguss Haregot Hatsey and Amanuel Amare Gebrekidan International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, 2024, vol. 48, issue 3, 321-337 Abstract: Failure is an inevitable phenomenon, therefore, it is essential to develop state-of-the-art failure analysis tools that are able to deal with it. Even though there are several failure analysis tools, they lack the ability to analyse the failure interdependence in a complex system. In this study, a new failure function matrix (FFM) is proposed to analyse the cause, effect, and solution of equipment by considering both the internal and external interdependencies. An empirical study is conducted on the electrical infrastructure failure of Raya Azebo Ground water, Ethiopia. The study revealed that there is failure interdependency among devices interconnected in a complex system. The FFM can be applied to analyse failure of various infrastructures at a system level rather than a specific piece of equipment. This study contributes a novel FFM tool that is able to analyse comprehensively overall failure function (cause, effect, and solution) and to analyse failure from end-to-end at a system level by considering the failure interdependency among interconnected equipment. Keywords: equipment failure; failure analysis; interconnected equipment; complex system. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ids:ijisen:v:48:y:2024:i:3:p:321-337 Access Statistics for this article More articles in International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering from Inderscience Enterprises Ltd |
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